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revorocks
15 May 2008, 1:38pm
Hi,

I was looking to set up a LAN with my friend on sunday at his house.

how simple is it? I use hamachi alot for games of cnc3 with him but it can be laggy.

Im going round his house so i thought ide take my pc with me for a bit of lag free gaming.

Is it just simple as connecting the 2 computers together with a ethernet cable and then going into network and it will work?
Or is there lots of settings etc that i need to configure?:confused:

Thanks.:)
Jokke
15 May 2008, 1:53pm
You could do network cable and a hub, or you could just use a crossover cable. Me and a buddy used to do this a while back. I don't really remember the settings part, but it was real simple.
FelixDeSouze
15 May 2008, 2:18pm
You could do network cable and a hub, or you could just use a crossover cable. Me and a buddy used to do this a while back. I don't really remember the settings part, but it was real simple.

With the network cable and hub depending on your setup (or his).. If he has a modem (ethernet not USB) he can plug the cable (straight cable) into the hub and then plug 2 more cables into his and your PC and it should connect pretty much straight away.

Crossover can be connected directly (as you probably know) and as far as I can think all you need to do is ensure your IP addresses don't conflct and MAYBE ensure you are both on the same workgroup (Default is WORKGROUP). -- Crossover cables over in UK are about £5 so maybe $10 over there? no doubt can get them from any electrical store (MAPLIN is one over here, not sure if you have them)
revorocks
15 May 2008, 3:30pm
Yep, im in the uk so i do have maplins just down the road.

So basically i just plug his pc into the modem and my pc into the modem and it will work?
revorocks
15 May 2008, 3:34pm
Ohh, ive just been on the maplins website and found this. cheap enough an looks like the right thing

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=47616&&source=14&doy=search

so i just plug one end in my pc and the other in his?
FelixDeSouze
16 May 2008, 1:55pm
Yeah that should basically do it.. I've done it with a crossover cable with a friend when we were using 2 PC's on 56k!!!!!

You may have to set static IP's mind but it aint hard to do :)
revorocks
16 May 2008, 3:39pm
Ok, thanks for that info,

hope i dont have to set up a static, takes me ages and never seems to work(well has worked once).

Thanks