home network nightmare

[greekpig]

Trying to spill it over to the eighth page? <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

 

[Dutcho]

You bet m8, lets just see how long we can keep this one alive.

 

[davidh]

yes m8 u could always use the other comp

page 8

<br />shuks i thought i had done it then

[ 10 March 2002: Message edited by: davidh ]</p>

 

[speccy]

Poor Dutch. Go to my site <a href="http://again.at/speccys-bins" target="_blank">HERE</a> Under Appz V1 you will find Sygate Home Network. Download this and just let it do it all for you. Worked a treat for me.

 

[qwerty]

we could also try and sort mine out <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> (could be a couple of more pages)

 

[speccy]

David and Dutch, now I know where all yours posts are coming from lol

 

[Dutcho]

Yes ! Speccy has took us to the eighth page, what a guy. Tee Hee.

 

[Dutcho]

If anyone noticed the problem was solved back on page 6 but I think people are just so used to posting here now so lets just keep going. Who's next.

 

[Gary Jackson]

Dutcho ..can you give me some sound advice to setting up my PC to the kids PC (networking)..What will i need to do this? I have been following your post for a while now and I hope you are the right person to ask about this subject.<br />PS..dont get too technical m8,my 'L'plates are still on with PC's....Cheers Jock

 

[qwerty]

i could do with some help please,my prob is i have 2 comp`s,1 laptop,a 5 port switch,cable modem and i can`t get them to see each other or share the modem. <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

 

[Dutcho]

qwerty, you don't have a firewall running do you ? That was one of my many problems.

Jock69er, to start off you need two nics and a cross-wired network cable (cat5) that is if you just want to connect two pc's directly together.

When you have that then we can continue.

 

[qwerty]

i do zonealarm 3 but i`ve uninstalled it and still no joy <img src="mad.gif" border="0">

 

[Dutcho]

Make sure that each machine is on the same workgroup and that they all have unique names.

Also check the ip address is something like 169,254.0.* where * is a unique number on each machine and they all sould have a subnet of 255.255.0.0

I have not played with hubs etc but I believe that you need to setup a gateway as well.

Hopefully this post will attract the attention of someone who knows a bit more, but please keep on this thread. (our goal is ten pages)

 

[qwerty]

i have 1 comp and laptop connected to the switch and then switch connected to the nic in main comp.i bought a switch should i have bought hub or something else..

ps i can see this going past 10 pages <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

 

[Dutcho]

Happy Birthday DavidH, only 10 days late.

How old is it ????/ 55 or 65 ?

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[Dutcho]

whats this switch thing then ? My limits at the mo are direct connection cos I aint tried any other way YET ! (oh no I heard you cry)

<br />Like I said ...... WATCH THIS SPACE.......

 

[Dutcho]

Jock69er......You can buy a nice purple cross-wired cat5 network cable from B&Q for £4.95.

<br />Yes thats right B&Q.

 

[qwerty]

it`s like a hub that you can connect 5 comp`s and it auto detect 10/100 and things... <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> has you can see i know a lot about the switch <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> (not)

 

[davidh]

yo qwerty m8 u need to connect ur 2 computors up to the hub then the hub to ur internet connection<br />u will need 2 nics one in each comp what cable i dont know but somebody else should know what i would try is connecting one comp through the hub to ur internet con then if working conect the other up start small lol <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

[ 11 March 2002: Message edited by: davidh ]</p>

 

[qwerty]

its a 5 port nway switch,when i connect 1 comp to switch and then to cable modem everything is ok so you think just add the others to the switch NO....cant find isp then it takes a while for the main one to find isp(when all others disconected)after a couple of kicks its ok again <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> so should i have bought a network hub??