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biggles2008
post 9 Jul, 2008 - 02:28 PM
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Okay so im at my grandads, i have my laptop he has his, im playing american conquest, he has it on his laptop.

I said why dont we play each other.

I had an ethernet cable in my bag, he doesnt have the internet you see but someone told me you can play each other using just a Ethernet cable you need to change some settings to.

How so?

Can you guide me in the right direction :\.

I know the policy is " see a good effort on my part" i did, my expertise (lol) are not in networking but fixing computers but i am stumped on this one. I tried bridge network, all sorts... creating connections but all = fail.
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post 9 Jul, 2008 - 02:54 PM
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Moved to networking & wireless smile.gif
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post 9 Jul, 2008 - 03:04 PM
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post 9 Jul, 2008 - 07:57 PM
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Well first of all, make sure your ethernet cable is the right type.
A good test is to plug the ethernet cable into both computers and do some tests.
Open up the command prompt on both the computers.
Type in on computer 1 "ipconfig" and write down what the IPv4 Address is (like 202.122.67.53)
On computer 2 type in "ping 202.122.67.53" replacing 202.122.67.53 with the IP Address you got from computer 1.
If you receive all of the packets then you can have a LAN game with your grandad.

It would be a good idea to host the game on computer 1 and connect to it directly using the IP Address if possible.
Hope this helps smile.gif

EDIT: If you have an Xbox LAN cable that might work too.

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post 9 Jul, 2008 - 08:08 PM
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As Jostol pointed out, you're going to need to make some modifications to your ethernet cable in order to create what is called a cross-over cable.

Standard ethernet is something similar to :

BW BL GW OR OW GR BrW BR

That's blue white, blue, green white, orange orange white, green, brown white, brown.

The colors don't matter exactly, just so long as you you make the swap in the center.

The problem with attaching two computers together with this one cable, is the wires will not line up as your Ethernet device is expecting them too. It's still setup for straight through!

Wires 1,2,3, & 6 will need to be switched. If using the example above it would now be :

GW GN BW OR OW BL BrW BR

So one end is changed to green white, gree, blue white, orange, orange white, blue, brown white brown.
The other end needs to stay the same as above.

You'll also need an RJ45 jack & Crimper.
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post 10 Jul, 2008 - 12:55 AM
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You can buy a cross-over cable to connect two machines, but if you want more players to participate in the LAN, it's more advisable to invest in a switch or a router.
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post 10 Jul, 2008 - 01:13 AM
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I do this at school all the time: when we hook up the cables, our laptops show limited connectivity through the same network that would be active if I hooked up to modem/router. Recently I had a similar problem with my dad's pc, he has XP and I've got vista. I just turned off all items on my computer that were not active on dad's in "view network connections" (right click network) "Properties", then under "This connection uses the following items:". I just matched them up. Sometimes the connection would be really slow: pinging both computers from each other fixed it.
I don't know much of anything about networking, but if you can make sense of what I said it might help.
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