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Feb 14^th, 2004 at 4:56pm

Liam Offline
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Hey.

I'm getting a new PC next week(yey!), anyway I want to setup ICS on it so I can use 2 PCs online. I have a pretty good Idea how everything works.

I just wanted to see if anyone knows what stuff I will need. I will also be sharing the connection with Xbox Live, so I will need a hub.

I think I will need a RJ45 connector cable from the PC NIC to the Hub, and then the extra two - one going from the Hub to the Xbox and one to the other PC....is this correct? ???

Also one PC will be XP and one ME, should this cause a problem?

Thanks for all the help, sorry if this is not the right place to ask this sort of question....it just seems some of you people seem to know a fair bit about computers. Wink

Cheers!

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Reply #1 - Feb 14^th, 2004 at 7:23pm

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Also one PC will be XP and one ME, should this cause a problem?

It shouldn't be a problem

If you have a LAN session between a Win 98SE machine and a Win XP Pro machine, both machines will be able to access the net simultaneously.

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Reply #2 - Feb 15^th, 2004 at 8:57am

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The XP machine needs to be the one that hosts ICS.

Not sure about the Xbox or you cabling thru a hub.

Also, firewalls are tricky if installed, try to configure it so the XP machine has the firewall and the others dont need one. If you use a firewall, it might be best to drop it until you get the network sorted, otherwise its hard to tell where a problem may be occuring, if any.

There are other ways to network, multiple networking cards in the host PC, or a router.

The help files in Win XP show some diagrams of layouts.

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Reply #3 - Feb 22^nd, 2004 at 1:54pm

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My #1 Machine (p4 2.6c) networks happily with 98SE on my #2 , the trick I've found is to have the XP machine set to assign its own I.P. automatically. I've assigned a specific I.P. for the other '98 machine.

If my friends bring more pc's (upto 3 due to the limitations of my hub) round for a friday night LAN / Bong party ( Grin

) I simply assign the extra machines specific I.P.'s I'm able to Host a Battlefield 1942 or Nascar 2003 server and allow the other machines to play on-line also (assuming each machine has its own CD & CD-key etc....)

Works for me, but its a bitch to set up! Angry

XP's helpful but not that helpful! Undecided

Paul.

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