Hi,
I am stumped and am hoping someone here can help me out 😕
I just recently migrated our 2 PCs to XP and everything is working fine except TCP/IP LAN gaming ( i.e. Serious Sam 2, Dungeon Siege ).
Both machines run XP, I use XP's ICS. I use ICS because I live in an old house and am using the "phoneline" NIC cards to avoid running cat 5 cable.
Also my 2nd PC is for the kids and I like the physical security that my PC must be on for them to access the Internet. So ICS works well for us, and I was able to do TCP/IP LAN gaming with W98se ICS before the upgrade.
So I have:
- a regular ethernet PCI NIC going to my cable modem for Internet access
- each PC has a "phoneline" NIC for my LAN connectivity
- XP's network setup wizard runs successfully on each PC, recognizes the Internet gateway fine.
- both PCs access the Internet, email without problems
- file and print sharing is working
- I can ping the PCs from each other
- I can ping the "internet host"PC as it's actual IP address or it's internet gateway address of 192.168.0.1
- I can ping the the "internet client" PC by it's ICS address of 192.168.0.x
So connectivity is there.
*But* if I start a Serious Sam 2 or Dungeon Siege session from either PC, the other PC can't find it on the LAN. Serious Sam 2 worked fine as a LAN game under W98se with it's ICS.
I don't know enough about networking to really debug this. I tried the obvious disabling XP's firewall on my NIC that attaches to the Internet, does not fix the problem.
I am assuming that the problem is local to the TCP/IP configuration of my "phoneline" NICs that connect my LAN. So I have been looking at the TCP/IP properties on those 2 NICs:
- On the "client internet" PC, it looks like the TCP/IP settings are locked down and I can't mess with them. The IP address of this PC is always 192.168.0.x where x varies when the machine reboots.
- On the "host internet" PC, the TCP/IP settings are setup by the XP Network Wizard such that:
* IP is forced to 192.168.0.1
* Manual DNS, but no DNS address is specified ( ??? Is this setting the problem ??? )
* TCP/IP filtering is disabled
Any suggestions would be much appreciated, I am reluctant to break an otherwise working network by playing with settings I don't understand. I like running the wizards, but who knows maybe running the Network Wizards is what caused this problem.
TIA for any & all help, want to play coop Serious Sam 2 with my son!
I am stumped and am hoping someone here can help me out 😕
I just recently migrated our 2 PCs to XP and everything is working fine except TCP/IP LAN gaming ( i.e. Serious Sam 2, Dungeon Siege ).
Both machines run XP, I use XP's ICS. I use ICS because I live in an old house and am using the "phoneline" NIC cards to avoid running cat 5 cable.
Also my 2nd PC is for the kids and I like the physical security that my PC must be on for them to access the Internet. So ICS works well for us, and I was able to do TCP/IP LAN gaming with W98se ICS before the upgrade.
So I have:
- a regular ethernet PCI NIC going to my cable modem for Internet access
- each PC has a "phoneline" NIC for my LAN connectivity
- XP's network setup wizard runs successfully on each PC, recognizes the Internet gateway fine.
- both PCs access the Internet, email without problems
- file and print sharing is working
- I can ping the PCs from each other
- I can ping the "internet host"PC as it's actual IP address or it's internet gateway address of 192.168.0.1
- I can ping the the "internet client" PC by it's ICS address of 192.168.0.x
So connectivity is there.
*But* if I start a Serious Sam 2 or Dungeon Siege session from either PC, the other PC can't find it on the LAN. Serious Sam 2 worked fine as a LAN game under W98se with it's ICS.
I don't know enough about networking to really debug this. I tried the obvious disabling XP's firewall on my NIC that attaches to the Internet, does not fix the problem.
I am assuming that the problem is local to the TCP/IP configuration of my "phoneline" NICs that connect my LAN. So I have been looking at the TCP/IP properties on those 2 NICs:
- On the "client internet" PC, it looks like the TCP/IP settings are locked down and I can't mess with them. The IP address of this PC is always 192.168.0.x where x varies when the machine reboots.
- On the "host internet" PC, the TCP/IP settings are setup by the XP Network Wizard such that:
* IP is forced to 192.168.0.1
* Manual DNS, but no DNS address is specified ( ??? Is this setting the problem ??? )
* TCP/IP filtering is disabled
Any suggestions would be much appreciated, I am reluctant to break an otherwise working network by playing with settings I don't understand. I like running the wizards, but who knows maybe running the Network Wizards is what caused this problem.
TIA for any & all help, want to play coop Serious Sam 2 with my son!
