I have a desktop computer with a connection to a cable internet provider. This is connected to a router which in turn goes to my laptop. Thus, my laptop is able to share the internet.
My problem is that while internet sharing seems to work flawlessly, neither computer recognizes the other when I try to network them. Worse, they won’t even connect to play games over the LAN or even on the internet. In game servers it is as if the other computer does not exist.
I used to be able to get the two computers to at least play together on the LAN in games such as the Doom95 port of Doom. But after several software wipes and reinstalls, they no longer even do that. Everytime a Windows firewalls message comes up pertaining to game connections, I unblock. I don’t know what is wrong. They share internet, but otherwise it is like there is no connection, or worse, that they block each other out. What can I do?
