PC About To Go Out Of The Window

[Guest]

I have had a networking problem for several weeks now and I am about to lose
it. Can anyone help

I am running Win XP Pro on a Laptop, and XP home on a desktop. I am trying
to connect the two with a LAN Crossover cable. I run the connect to a home or
small office network on both, retstart the pc and desktop , but still no
connection. I have read through many forum posts, some I couldn't understand,
those that I could did nothing.

Is there anyone who could walk me through this?

 

[Chuck]

I have had a networking problem for several weeks now and I am about to lose
it. Can anyone help

I am running Win XP Pro on a Laptop, and XP home on a desktop. I am trying
to connect the two with a LAN Crossover cable. I run the connect to a home or
small office network on both, retstart the pc and desktop , but still no
connection. I have read through many forum posts, some I couldn't understand,
those that I could did nothing.

Is there anyone who could walk me through this?

Chaz,

You have to start by ensuring that the network connection is good. How do you
do that, without some diagnostics? Has this crossover cable been tested
elsewhere? Can you use either (or both) computers elsewhere, and get results?

One of the problems with networking laptops, and with using a crossover cable,
is the lack of physical diagnostics. With an Ethernet adapter on a desktop
computer, you'll have little lights which light up to tell you the status of the
connection. If you connect the cable to a hub (switch, NAT router), not to
another computer, you'll have lights on the hub / switch / NAT router that will
tell you something.

You're going to have to work from the bottom up, and this is where you start.