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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Liberator on October 09, 2002, 10:56:38 pm

Title: OT - Networking Help
Post by: Liberator on October 09, 2002, 10:56:38 pm

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good, detailed tutorial on how to network two computers using 2 ethernet cards and a crossover cable using Windows 98se and TCP/IP? Also must be able to use dial-up internet simoultaneously.

Title: OT - Networking Help
Post by: Fineus on October 10, 2002, 03:29:12 am

IIRC thats automatic isn't it? A friend and I did the exact same thing when we were new to networking and managed to get several games running on it. Don't worry about dialup - since the network card is separate from the modem it shouldn't interfere.

Title: OT - Networking Help
Post by: Sandwich on October 10, 2002, 06:29:01 am

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/lansetup.htm

At the bottom.

Title: OT - Networking Help
Post by: wEvil on October 10, 2002, 06:30:07 am

try not to use Win9x/ME with networks.  the TCP stack is terrible in comparison to the (admittedly ripped from BeOS) version in winNT/2000/XP pro.

Title: OT - Networking Help
Post by: Liberator on October 10, 2002, 05:49:16 pm

Thank you!:D

Title: OT - Networking Help
Post by: Stealth on October 10, 2002, 06:09:13 pm

don't worry about both computers being able to access the internet at the same time, that's easy to do, if one computer's online, it's easy for any networked computers to access that connection

Title: OT - Networking Help
Post by: Sandwich on October 11, 2002, 06:25:10 am

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Originally posted by Stealth
don't worry about both computers being able to access the internet at the same time, that's easy to do, if one computer's online, it's easy for any networked computers to access that connection

Only if you have Internet Connection Sharing or some other sharing proggie working, though. But that's detailed quite nicely in the above site I linked to.