Wireless Access

HELLO,
I HAVE TWO COMPUTERS IN MY HOME. ONE PC AND ONE LAPTOP BOTH HAVE A LAN NETWORK MODEM. I ALSO HAVE A LAN WIRE. I PLUGGED THW WIRE IN THE TWO COMPUTERS BUT AN ERROR COMES SAYING NO OR LIMITED CONNECTION.

I WANT TO PLAY MULTIPLAYER GAMES AND SEND DATA ACROSS TWO COMPUTERS. SO PLZ HELP ME HOW SHOULD I CONNECT THE LAN. I WILL BE HIGHLY OBLIGED TO U. PLZ MAIL ME THE SOLUTION ALSO TO HAMMAD_SKP@HOTMAIL.COM IF POSSIBLE.

THANKS

You need a crossover ethernet cable to connect 2 NICs...

Pinout is

1 3
2 6
3 1


6 2

Wot is this crosswire wire? I bought the wire from a shop and the retailer said that this wire works for a lan network. ho do i check that the wire is crosswire.

As in your reply i assume you got an straight wire/cable, there are used within LAN's with the difference between your LAN and the more bigger LAN's is that the bigger LAN's got devices called hubs or switches which required an straight cable.

When you look at your two LAN modems, they are line-uped in an specific order of lines when sitting in front of the computer/laptop,
when you look at the back of the other computer, this is the easiest way with backside to each other you will noticed that the line-up of lines on both computers are different. That is why you will need a cross-link cable which crossed litterly several lines inside of the cable (8 in total) with each other.

And as conclusion your just got the wrong type of wire/cable.

Roderik.

Perhaps you could clarify what you mean by "LAN modem" is it a network card, or some sort of broadband internet modem?

You can create a small network with just two PCs using network cards and a cross-over cable as mentioned above, but you may also need to set network addresses before they will communicate.

What operating systems are you using on the two computers?

The rule of thumb for LAN cables is generally:

When connecting like devices (Hub to Hub, Network card to Network card; i.e. : "computer to computer") a CROSSOVER cable is needed.

When connecting dissimilar devices (Network card HUB, or Network card to Switch, etc.) a PATCH (or straight) cable is needed.