Shaftatplanetquake
Diamond Member
Alright, running road runner cable and just got an ethernet cable fished from one room to another. The ethernet cable works, I'm sure of that (tested it with one of those $300 tools and it passed and all).
I have a 4 port 10bt hub that I have tried to connect. Hooked up the modem to one of the ports and the two ethernet cables going directly to the two nics into two other ports, leaving one free port. Depending on which computer tried to access the internet first, one of them is constantly left out. No ip, no nothing. Also with this configuration, sporadically, the modem will simply drop and cycle back through the LEDs until it gets the connection again. Then I have to restart to get any of the machines to access the internet. I can't simply run ipconfig /renew; or winipcfg /renew. - one machine is running win2k and the other is on win98.
Another concern is it seems about half the time on my win 2k machine I can't find the other computer in "computers near me", and on the win98 machine I can hardly ever get the win2k machine to show up in network neighborhood.
Is it possible for RR to keep me from getting 2 ip addresses; and their interferance is causing my network to go crappy?
Do I need to get myself a router?
Would any ICS software allow me to get this second machine up and running?
I have a 4 port 10bt hub that I have tried to connect. Hooked up the modem to one of the ports and the two ethernet cables going directly to the two nics into two other ports, leaving one free port. Depending on which computer tried to access the internet first, one of them is constantly left out. No ip, no nothing. Also with this configuration, sporadically, the modem will simply drop and cycle back through the LEDs until it gets the connection again. Then I have to restart to get any of the machines to access the internet. I can't simply run ipconfig /renew; or winipcfg /renew. - one machine is running win2k and the other is on win98.
Another concern is it seems about half the time on my win 2k machine I can't find the other computer in "computers near me", and on the win98 machine I can hardly ever get the win2k machine to show up in network neighborhood.
Is it possible for RR to keep me from getting 2 ip addresses; and their interferance is causing my network to go crappy?
Do I need to get myself a router?
Would any ICS software allow me to get this second machine up and running?
