Null modem.

What is a nullmodem? I actually started my "network" with a serial cable (or two), but the money spent on a couple NIC cards and a hub is well spent at the very least.

It really is simple so I don't know why you'd compromise. Buy a couple cheap NIC cards since the speed difference (imop) between a top of the line card and a basic 10/100 card is negligable. If possible buy one of those packages that includes a couple NIC cards, the hub, and the cables.

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NullModem(without modem 'eng') - serial to serial cable, speed 512kb/s (if your lucky), just about fast enough for gameplay, but not much else.

Netowrking 2 home pc's can be done with or without a hub, a hub, does simplfy adding more pc's at a later date.
If you don't use a hub then you'll need to use a 'crossover' cable (where the pinouts swap at each end) otherwise it won't work. (a hub does this for you anyway) best cable to use is probably Cat5e with the 568b pinouts.
NIC's cost about $5 for the really cheap ones, but i'd recommend spending about $15 for a reasonable 10/100 card.
make sure that the hub supports dual speed as well, otherwise you'll be ruinning at 10mb/s instead of 100mb/s.


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Go buy you cable then plug the 2 computers together.

I’m not much help for configuring them to work. I tried years ago for a couple of days before I finally gave up and bought some network cards. And yes it is possibly to play games. That was my whole intent.

Cya



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Or if your NICs have the facility, you can have BNC (10base2?) cabling with terminators. Nice and cheap for long distances, pointless otherwise.

I'm not even sure if some of the more newer games even support null modem connections. Almost everything sings TCP/IP. Overall it'd be wiser to just get two NICs and a crossover cable for now. Even when you eventually get a hub and normal twisted pair cables, the crossover one can be handy for testing things. If you get null modem cables and stuff, it will almost definitely be useless after you setup a full net. Besides, in some cases, the nullmodem cable itself can be almost as expensive as two NICs and a Twisted pair cable.


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dance around the border like I'm Cassius Clay
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The cable will work for games like starcraft and diablo, but beyond that I didn't find much so I got myself a hub and cards. It was also incredibly slow for file transfers.

What OS are you using? If you have WinXP, getting the network going is really easy. Just set up a home or small office network on both computers, set your internet preferences and you should be ready to go in less than 5 minutes.

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I use both Win98 & WinXP.

WinXP for applications of various sorts and Windows98 purely
for "pleasure"...


Nuke you, Nuke me, Nuke it together, naturally.

haha what a twit.

<font color=purple><b>Techie2001</font color=purple></b>
<i>(Crazy Alien)</i>
If it ain't broke, Don't fix it.

What is that saying again?
"Even the best can make mistakes", errr...

Well, anyway...I just slaughtered a computer at my job and found an old network card.
There are 3 ports on it, and I can´t figure out what their function are, anyone care to explain?

One of em´ looks like a midiport, just a little smaller.
Then we have another one that looks like a tiny tv-antenna connector.
And at last, the one I figure to be the "real" network connector, looks like an USB port or something.


Nuke you, Nuke me, Nuke it together, naturally.

I think in a nice way Pike is trying to tell you to buy a kit that comprises of everything you'll need. Icluding instructions and manuals and driver cds etc....

<font color=purple><b>Techie2001</font color=purple></b> says... If it ain't broke, Don't fix it.

Eugh - you comb your chest???

<font color=purple><b>Techie2001</font color=purple></b> says... If it ain't broke, Don't fix it.

I new it would come to this, there´s not a single thread ever that have managed to stay on topic.
Lol.
Well, here´s an update for you who are interested in my null modem adventures.
I enabled the com ports in BIOS and tried one more time to get the connection to work properly.
Did it work? take a guess.

Ofcourse it didn´t work.
"Oh, I´m sorry but I can´t make a connection with the guest computer, try later..."
Wtf!
Ofcourse, how stupid of me...perhaps my computer change his mind later and somehow decides to be kind and make it work.
I´ll just sit and wait for a couple of minutes then it will work automatically, for sure.

I agree wholeheartedly with that kind of logic.
Silly Windows.

Stubborn as I am I decided to try to connect the computers via multiplayer in Warcraft and ColinMcRae.
It worked...more or less anyway.

Warcraft had no problems, ColinMcRae had problems.
It was so annoyingly slow that I freaked out and got a spasmatic attack on my livingroom floor.
When I came to my senses I made a promise to myself to never ever use a null modem cable again.

Nuke you, Nuke me, Nuke it together, naturally.

i've often wondered why smurfs are blue..

(ok i'm making this crap up now.. but just to get techie off pg1)

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long story, you don't know the half of. but it's nothing to do with me..

ahem.. courtesy car.. and i was only dissin it coz i was suspicious.. and rightly so... seein as you lied about it..

And wtf with dragging up ancient posts all at the same time, other than to disrupt the natural flow of the board?

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ok heres the script with katy..

for the last 4/5 weeks she keeps coming across on sat and whinging to me about how she wants to split up with luke and all this [-peep-], (if you don't believe me ask danielle or gerry as they were there with me) she going on about how she thinks he's cheatin on her and her and cat boon are going out on friday on the pull, ect..
then the otherday me nd danni saw her in town, danni goes to the toilet and katy goes.. 'so are you 2 still going out?' to which i reply yeah, then she goes 'thats a shame coz i was gonna split up with luke and go with you...' but i told danni this straight away..
i'm not interested in katy anymore, she's not who i thought she was.. anyway, now she's sendin me all these txt messages and chatting to me on msn saying she thinks i'm sexy, and she wants me to have a secret relationship with her and loadsa crap like this (i have the msn logs to prove it as well) ..
so there you are..

p.s. in reply to txt.. went to make coffee..

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thats entertainment..

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LOL

Damn, I wake up in the middle of the night, can't sleep, and find plenty of entertainment to read....




Note: You steal your friends girlfriends, or their brothers', then you better expect a couple broken bones...

At least in my neck of the woods...

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You miss me?


LOSER!

Some say just 2 nics are good enough, but you need "terminators" or some damn thing then.
Never mind teh chest hairs, just get your lan running properly.


ps I'm no sissy with pcs configs, i'l spend days busting my head just to get one single tweek right, then it's aaahhhhhhhhhh gratification.
I'm a sissy with girls however

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