Re: which? network card
 

I found a wee shop near me, so I will go there for the cable, and ask them, my mate says they are decent folk, and wont rip me off.

ik

p.s. thanks all

Re: which? network card
 

hey everyone, I got my Linksys WRT54G router today.

I set up the network, making my computer my wee bros computer and the internet all on the router, and it took about 2 mins for the OS to see the internet, but it worked straight away.

logged onto Linksys setup page for the router, and just picked the DHCP setup, because I know NTL use Dynamic IPs. this is now working a treat.

Not tested my wee brothers connection yet, because we are currently waiting for a monitor for his machine, but I don't invisage any problems.

thanks all.

ik
EDIT: I would rep you all, but you all got repped a few days ago for this thread from me.

Re: which? network card
 

hey guys a small problem,

I am trying to get my home network connected with this router.

My computer used to be the main computer in the network, and my wee bros, the child computer.

I tried to make a new network connection through the router, and chose that option through the network setup.

I could make the network floppy disk from my side, but it would not let my wee bros comp go through it.

how can I set up a network that I can see his computer, I am trying to copy over his files, so that I can upgrade his computer from xp to xp sp2

ik

p.s. his comp used to be directly connected to mine, but now we are both connected to the router which is connected directly to the net.

Re: which? network card
 

On my network at home, I use static IP addressing - the following images may explain it a bit better... (I assume you are using WinXP on both PCs)

On both PCs, go to control panel and then network connections. Right click the network connection used for the router and go to properties. A box like this will appear...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d.green...8/image027.jpg

Go to TCP/IP and then into properties... a box like this will come up...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d.green...8/image029.jpg

you will find (because you are using DHCP) that it will have the option "Obtain an IP address automatically" selected. If I remember correctly, you should still have the button "Advanced" available to click. If so, choose this and you will get a box like the following one.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d.green...8/image031.jpg

Select the WINS tab and choose "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP" and click OK on all boxes to back out. Try again. As the PCs were working using a crossover cable, I assume they are both on the same workgroup?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d.green...8/image033.jpg


Hope this helps...

Like I said above, I use static IP addressing rather than DHCP, so I always know the IP of each PC on the network (I have 5 including my laptop which is wireless) - purely as I'm too lazy to do an ipconfig on a PC when I work on it :)

Any problems, post back and I'll try to help some more :)