My husband and I run a small business from our home. We’ve finally got tired of working out of every room in the house, and so have designated a single room as work space. The idea was to network our computers together with a 10/100 5 port ethernet switch so that both of us could use the net in the same room from the same cable modem. For whatever reason this isn’t working. In fact, not only do we not have a simultaneous internet connection, we can’t even see one another in the workgroup. It’s like we’re not connected at all.
It’s getting frustrating. We’ve tried repairing the network connection, but it tells us that it’s unable to renew the ip address. When we look in the configurations it says that it can’t reach the DHCP server and that the connection is timed out. I’ve seen about a thousand people with the same issue; yet I’ve not seen a viable solution, nor have I seen a reasonable explanation as to why it’s happening. Furthermore, most people are trying to connect either Desktop to Laptop or XP Pro to XP home.
I have two XP Pro, desktop computers sitting not a full foot apart with every cable in place, and for whatever reason I can’t get the bloody things to connect. Not even a GLIMMER of connection.
If anyone can explain this phenomena to me, or better yet, provide a solution, a step-by-step, or even some kind of oracle clue as to how I can mend it, I would be grateful.
Take care,
Azy!