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by teraside

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I'm trying to set up a standard windows network connection between 2 pc's.

Computer 1 has 1GbitLan interface and a pci nic.
Computer 2 has 1GbitLan interface.

If I connect one pc to Gbit Lan and the other to Gbit Lan the leds on the nic's turn orange(close to red).
If I connect the pci nic to one Gbit Nic the leds are green. I have been able to access the network by manually configuring ip adresses 196.1.1.2 and 193.1.1.3. I would like a working Lan connection to enable lan gaming on both systems.

I get limited or no connectivity on one pc and the other stalls at acquiring a network adress if automatic ip is used.

Please help if you can
I choose create a new connection> set up a home or small office network. Then I choose computer connects directly to the internet, The other computers on my network connect through this computer.(Computer1)
The computer connects to the internet through another computer (Computer2)
I use the same workgroup for both Computers

Please help, I can only connect to my other pc if I manually configure the above ip adresses.
Some games are able to Lan and others not.

teraside

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by nz_justice

Sounds like you need a dhcp server. If you have an adsl modem to connect to the network this could also act as a DHCP server, but you have to enable it on the ADSL modem, if you have an OS server, make your sever the DHCP server. Another thing to try would be adding different network protocols, IF the game supports the network protocol ipx/spx protocol try using that. you could also try to use the netbeui protocol. If you do not have a dhcp server, and you want to use tcp/ip then you will have to manually configure the ip's but it helps to have them in the the same sub net, eg 169.1.1.2 and 169.1.1.3 for ever other computer you want to join 169.1.1.4, 169.1.1.5 etc.. You will also have to enable Microsoft file sharing if MS network. The windows firewall also blocks network connections and zone alarm blocks game network connections across a LAN.

by toivo talikka

Are you using a switch or a router of any kind in your network or do you connect the PCs to each other?

If you have a switch or router, does it support Gigabit LAN?

If you have two network interfaces in one PC and that PC acts as bridge or router between the internet router and another PC, you need to set up routing between the two network interfaces.

Use ROUTE PRINT at the command prompt (Start - Run - cmd) to find out what the routing table looks like in each PC and take it from there.

by hal 9000

If you are using a CAT5E cable it will never work you need a Crossover Cable and even then with Gigabite I've never had any success with a crossover cable, What I would recommend is a Gigabite Hub and 2 CAT5E leads to the different computers as these are standalone units all you should need to do is run the Network Setup Wizard and make sure that you have them set to Work-group and the same Work-group Name. If you are going to access the Internet with one you'll need to set that up first and make it the default Internet connection and then setup the other one as connecting to the Internet through a Residential Gateway or other computer on this network.

Col

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