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 Posted: Sun, 17th Jul 2005 22:17 Post subject: How to wire a lan party? |
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Hey, I know this doesnt specificly go in this forum but I just chose the most populated computer related one. My friends and I attempted to have a lan party last night and it was somewhat succesful but frankly we suck at networking.
We had 10 computers, 2 routers and a hub. Two differnt brand routers, a d-link di-704p, and im sorry I dont know the specs of the other two devices. I do know the hub has 4 ports, one of which has a switch next to it that says "node / uplink "
The first attempt was to just set up 4 computers on each router and then connect the routers to each other. and this is basicly where it went down hill. We couldnt get the routers to view each other network. The computers connected to each router were working fine as a network by them selves. Both routers were set as DHCP servers (which I think might have been the problem?).
Thoughts that crossed our mind. Do you need cross over cables? uplink ports? These are just terms i remember hearing. Do you connect the routers to each other via the WAN port or do you not use those at all?
We couldnt get that to work, so in the end we just connect 3 computers to Router A, used a lan cable to connect Router A and Hub. and connected another 3 computer to the Hub. So we played some 6 player games and other people rotated. Anybody have any idea how to get this to work better/correctly?
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kosmiq
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| Posted: Sun, 17th Jul 2005 23:26 Post subject: |
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Get a switch I say... 100mbit switch with 16ports won't cost a fortune, easy setup and also will be working 100% fine.
But if you are going to use you current stuff anyway it should be like:
Use any Uplink port (or whatever the name would on the hub/router/whatever) and connect to another one. Now here comes the problem... If you use the uplink port on one router and on one hub there are no more uplink ports on those... So I have no idea if you can get it working any good with another one in a standard port... Guess not...
Again: Get a switch, its cheap.
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| Posted: Tue, 19th Jul 2005 16:57 Post subject: |
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If you use a crossover cable, you just connect it to any port in both routers, not WAN. If you don't have a cross over, just use a regular cable and put one end in the uplink-port of router nr 1 and the other end in a normal port at router 2.
You should disable the DHCP function of the router that's not connected to the internet and also don't use the WAN port at all on that router.
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