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Just bought Broadband, and I want to make two computers into a network so they can both be connected. How do I do this? Do I need Ethernet cards in both? Do I need a wire? How much is a reasonable price to pay for these?

Miserableman wrote:
> do you see any devices marked with a yellow exclamation makr?


marker :O(

Damn you two hours sleep..

Heh, that's weird. Your downstairs machine should have two blocks of ip information, as it sits on two networks (your internal network and the internet). Answer these questions for me:

* What version of Windows is installed on the machine downstairs?

* What kind of broadband connection do you use?

*Are you certain the network card you've installed in your PC downstairs to interface with the PC upstairs is installed correctly? If you go to device manager on your computer downstairs (right-click on My Computer->properties->hardware configuration->device manager (or similar)), do you see any devices marked with a yellow exclamation makr? If so, what?


Do this to your computer upstairs:

*Right-click on Network Neighbourhood, and hit properties

* You probably have a list of protocols and stuff, three of which are TCP/IP. Two of these you don't need but won't really hurt your system if they stay. Select each one in turn and hit the Properties button, to find the one that has the ip address 192.168.0.2. When you have found it, select the Gateway tab in the dialog box. Enter the address 192.168.0.1 as a new gateway and Add it. Select the DNS configuration tab once you're done, and enter 192.168.0.1 as a DNS server in the same way you added the gateway.
* Once you've done this, your machine upstairs is ready and raring to go on your home network. Your machine downstairs still needs a bit of cajoling though.

Right, this is it on the upstairs computer; the one that has no Internet connection and the one that we want to connect to the other computer so they can both use broadband.

Windows 98 IP configuration

0 ethernet adapter
IP address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0.0.0
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . .

1 ethernet adapter
IP address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0.0.0
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . .

2 ethernet adapter
IP address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . .

And this is the downstairs one, the one that has broadband and the one we want the other one to connect through to get onto the internet.

Windows IP configuration

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . . :
IP address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 80.4.101.23
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 80.4.101.254

Just write the numbers by hand then.

How do you copy and paste?

On each machine, can you run a DOS prompt (start->run, and type 'command' into the box, minus the ''s). Type 'ipconfig' (again, minus the ''s) on each machine. It should spit out some information like:

Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1



On your internet-connected machine you may get two chunks of information that look like this. Paste it all into a reply here. In addition, please say what versions of Windows you are running on which machine and what type internet connection you are trying to share. It won't take long for me/us to tell you how to do it with this info.q

That's it, now I'm completely fed up. I did all of the instructions from practicallynetworked.com, but it did not work. I can connect to the internet here, but not upstairs. What do I need to do now.

Miserableman wrote:
> Miserableman wrote:
> www.practicallynetworked.com is a good site to look at for help.

I tried that, but I found it really confusing.

Bob_The_Moose wrote:
> And I assume network neighbourhood is not detecting each one?
>
> Assign IP address under the tcp protocols bound to the card on each
> comp.
>
> Use 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 . And add them to any allow lists on
> firewalls you may have.

What. Are. You. Saying.

Miserableman wrote:
> www.practicallynetworked.com is a good site to look at for help.