whats the easiest way to make a direct connection to another pc via phone line

>-----Original Message-----
>whats the easiest way to make a direct connection to
>another pc via phone line?

that all depends on what your doing. ralated to games
usaly if you can play it between two PCs over the net it
will have a section on the game menue that lets u punch
in the IP addy your trying to connect to, or start a
server with a pass word and have the other PC join it.
now if your just talking like FTP or vid conferenceing
its a different story. post what your connecting em for
or if ur useing a game what game your trying to make the
connection on. that way the help will be directed more
tward what you really need

Frenzy

You cannot normally just connect the two pc's on the same phone line and
expect them to communicate between themselves. Even if both pc's have modems
(assumed as you mention phone line), the way modems work more or less
prevents this.

There's usually three choices to play computer to computer games. Other than
this connection difference, the "logic" is similar. One pc is the "server"
that "hosts" the game, e.g. allows other pc's to connect as "clients" to
play the game.

1) both pc's connect to the internet. The "server" simply waits for
connections from the "client". The client connects by the user entering the
IP address of the server.

2) ethernet cards and local area connection. As it's a network, one can have
it setup using TCP/IP which basically makes this a special case of #1 above
(this is what most people would do when having some "gaimg party" where
everyone gets together some place). Otherwise the game uses one of the
"other" protocols, usually IPX or similar. The server is simply started and
waits, the client usually "browses" the network looking for the server.

3) modem to modem. Because of the way modems work each pc needs it's own
phone line. Simply connecting a phone line between the two modems will not
"normally" work (I say normally as you can get around it but it's not "easy"
for a novice).

"Craig" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2D0C4417-45A9-4317-91C8-(E-Mail Removed)...
> whats the easiest way to make a direct connection to another pc via phone
line?
>

Maybe not 3Com, but others also have the same type of products. This is
known as Phonenet networking which allows the telephone lines in the house
to be used as a network at Ethernet (10-base-t) speeds.


"Drew Boillot" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> For a while 3Com had a product that allowed you to have a 10mb
> connection between 2 PCs over your internal phone lines. I'm not sure
> if they still sell that product. (assumes they are in the same house)
>
> You can also go wireless, (no need to run wires between your 2 PCs)
> that's going to be the easiest way for you if you do not want to run
> cables and the PCs are far apart. (also assumes they are in the same
> house)
>
> Alittle more info is needed in order to give you any sort of useable
> help/info.
>
> Drew
>
> On Tue, 4 May 2004 15:11:04 -0700, "Craig"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >whats the easiest way to make a direct connection to another pc via phone
line?
>