Home networking

[Guest]

Hi every body;

I have 2 PC's at home both running win XP and I have DSL cable and a router.
I connected them to router in order to use internet sharing and router is
connected to DSL modem. Both PC have internet connection. my question is, how
can i network them together and what kind of cable(straight or cross over)
should i use?

Best regards,
Faram.

 

[Ron Lowe]

Hi every body;

I have 2 PC's at home both running win XP and I have DSL cable and a
router.
I connected them to router in order to use internet sharing and router is
connected to DSL modem. Both PC have internet connection. my question is,
how
can i network them together and what kind of cable(straight or cross over)
should i use?

Best regards,
Faram.

No additional cable ( crossover or other ) is required.

Since they are both connected to the router and
accessing the Internet, you are 90% of the way there.

Simply run the network setup wizard on each machine, and select the option
which says you are connected through a 'residential gateway', which is
XP-speak for your router.

That will configure all the things you need.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your respned, what about IP address, should i give each PC one IP
address?

 

[Ron Lowe]

Thanks for your respned, what about IP address, should i give each PC one
IP
address?

No.
The router is already doing that.

If you go to a command prompt and do an:

ipconfig /all

then you will see the IP address the router has issued.

( normally 192.168.0.x ).