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"Little help Please?"

Right, getting broadband next week.

Appreciate it if someone could tell me how to hook up two PCs to the modem? What cables do I need to buy etc...

Thanks in advance.

Or†ega wrote:
> Need some major help guys.
>
> Both computers now have NICs installed and i've hooked them up
> together with some crossover cable. I've done the networking thingy
> connection wizard thingy but just cant get the two computers to
> communicate. Anything i'm missing out? All i really want is to share
> the internet connection.


You need to give them both hostnames and IP addresses, look in the Network options. I recommend 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 for IP addresses - use .1 for the one with the Internet connection. Hostnames you can make up yourself.

The Almighty wrote:
> Whooo! wrote:
> And to prove it, I've just ordered £40 worth of stuff from
> them
>
> tekheads are good too. Just add the required dot co dot uk

Yeah, I order stuff from them. However, if you go to extremecooling, they sell at the same prices (exactly) as Tekheads but without postage and packaging. Only problem is they don't sell everything Tek do, only the choicier products - products that don't cost as much to post and products they can make more profit form :)

Still *damn* cheap though.

Need some major help guys.

Both computers now have NICs installed and i've hooked them up together with some crossover cable. I've done the networking thingy connection wizard thingy but just cant get the two computers to communicate. Anything i'm missing out? All i really want is to share the internet connection.

Whooo! wrote:
> And to prove it, I've just ordered £40 worth of stuff from them

tekheads are good too. Just add the required dot co dot uk

And to prove it, I've just ordered £40 worth of stuff from them :p

Fog wrote:
> don't advertise other PC websites and don't use scan.co.uk...apparenly
> it's not good.

sorry about the website advertising, well i wasnt advertising i was just using it as an example.
oh, and scan are good i have ordered loads of stuff from there and it all was kinda cheap and it all works fine...

You know you can get a Linksys 4 port router for about £60 from a certain well known online book retailer. Add £10 per NIC card and a couple of quid for the cables.

I've got one of these routers and we share our broadband in our house on it (4 users). Obviously, it also lets us play LAN games against each other too.

Wireless is hugely expensive and not as fast as wired. Last time I looked I was looking at almost £200 to replace my £30 network.

And Scan are good, I've used them a lot.

What about these wireless network adapters? Any good? Whats the range like?

I saw one in the argos catalogue for £90 i think.

don't advertise other PC websites and don't use scan.co.uk...apparenly it's not good.