Please help me with network questions

[ChrisOjeda]

Okay, my friend and I have been trying to setup 3 PCs to play WarCraft III from his house. We have a Dlink Router that has more than 3 ports, 3 pcs running XP, and 3 IP addresses from his Cable ISP. For some reason we can't get it to work. It will work for 2 pcs if one pc is in the router, the router uplinks to a hub, and the 2nd pc is in the hub. I know that we should be able to get all 3 pcs on the router playing WarCraft III which is why he bought all that stuff and got 3 IP addresses. We both are pc hardware experts but newbs to networks. I would really appreciate any help. Please give me the basics of what I need to do. We had the same issues with StarCraft....Thanks...Chris

 

[cipher00]

Well, you might want to start by reading this. A preliminary guess is that you don't need a router and 3 IPs at the same time (a little more info on the basic setup would help). A router splits one IP, so my guess is that the PC in the router + 1 other PC will work, but you'll need to point the PCs to an internal IP to get them to talk. An issue might be the number of PCs in a DMZ, but first you'll need to get the PCs communicating.

BTW, if you got Starcraft to work, can't you just duplicate that approach, whatever it was?