LAN Gaming on vista ??

[SteveR]

Hi all,
I Have recently purchased two new desktop units running vista home premium.
Which after some snags i have managed successfuly to network over a bt home
hub, one ethernet cabled directly in and the other wirelessly using a belkin
wireless card.
The problem i have is that i would like to play some LAN games with my sons,
unreal tournament 2003 has been my starting attempt.
I just dont seem to be able to ge it working and i dont have much experience
with LAN set ups so i am struggling much to my sons dismay......
Any help appreciated.

Steve (West Wales - uk)

 

[SimRacer]

Every November right after Thanksgiving a bunch of my friends and I get
together for a LAN party. This year was the first time that Vista showed up
at the party. I now run Vista Ultimate X64 and one friend runs Vista Home
Premium 32 bit. The other 6 machines all run XP Pro. I guess it was because
we had two machines running Vista this year but we had to make one change. To
get the computers to work together we had to go in and setup IP addresses for
each machine. Once we made this change all went fine. The only problem with
giving each computer an IP address instead of letting it automaticly assign
IP is that it interfeared with the computers connecting to the internet after
everyone went home and tried to get back on the net. Most internet providers
use the automatic setting. All you have to do is go back into the settings
for your NIC and make the change back to automatic and then you can connect
again.