Setting Up Wired LAN

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How's it goin everyone. Appreciate you checkin out my question here and possibly helping me out. Here's the situation, I'm about to deploy on a ship for 7-9 Months. My buddies and I all bought gaming laptops and we'd love to get a LAN network going. Only problem is im the only "tech-savy" person and I myself do not know where to begin on making this happen. It would be 3 people plus myself on a network, It would all be a wired network. I know I'll need a progam like Hamachi, cables to connect and some sort of junction to connect our computers. Thanks a bunch everyone, have a good day
 
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You should not need any program to connect your computers together. You just need a switch and some CAT5e cables. A switch like this for example: http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-SG105-Gigabit-Ethernet-Desktop/dp/B00A128S24
Then you need to set up your computers with static IP addresses in the same subnet.
An example would be to give the PC's addresses like 192.168.2.5 through 192.168.2.8, with subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.
If that is too confusing then you can always just get a cheap router with built in switch, where the router gives all the connected computers an IP address automatically. If the router is a wifi router, just turn off the wifi part if you don't need it. Here is an example...
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You should not need any program to connect your computers together. You just need a switch and some CAT5e cables. A switch like this for example: http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-SG105-Gigabit-Ethernet-Desktop/dp/B00A128S24
Then you need to set up your computers with static IP addresses in the same subnet.
An example would be to give the PC's addresses like 192.168.2.5 through 192.168.2.8, with subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.
If that is too confusing then you can always just get a cheap router with built in switch, where the router gives all the connected computers an IP address automatically. If the router is a wifi router, just turn off the wifi part if you don't need it. Here is an example: http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WR740N-Wireless-Router-150Mpbs/dp/B002WBX7TQ
 
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