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by neuron chaser

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I have a laptop running Vista Home Premium,can I network the laptop with a desktop running XP SP2 using a direct computer to computer ethernet connection? If so could you please furnish step by step instructions.
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Joe

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by naveen_joshi2007

hiii. first of all make sure transmission media should be cross cable. then assign any static ip to both computers and it should be of same class. in one computers LAN properties enter the default gateway to others ip address. then the both computers are in a network.

by technogeek-1995

Since it is a laptop, I would buy a Linksys Wireless Router and a WIFI card (if the laptop doesn't have one) BTY have encryption

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