Simple Home Network

• Ecxentrique

  19 Jan 06, 21:54

  Need advice and guidance from pple here..
  
  Need to connect up 2 home computers one on Win XP Home one on Pro to share a cable broadband internet connection using 1 router..
  
  Advice needed on:-
  1. Type of cables
  2. More importantly on the connection settings and protocols.. and all the netbios gibberish...
  
  thanks.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  19 Jan 06, 22:38

  Upgrade your XP Home to XP Pro. Otherwise, I don't know how to help. My knowledge limited to XP Pro nia.
• chanff8

  19 Jan 06, 22:40

  If 2 are desktop computers,
  
  Modem connect to router
  
  Router connect to 2 computers, using 2 LAN cables.
  
  Regarding the settings I need to know the brand...
• thoreldan

  19 Jan 06, 22:49

  Originally posted by Ecxentrique:

  Need advice and guidance from pple here..
  
  Need to connect up 2 home computers one on Win XP Home one on Pro to share a cable broadband internet connection using 1 router..
  
  Advice needed on:-
  1. Type of cables
  2. More importantly on the connection settings and protocols.. and all the netbios gibberish...
  
  thanks.

  straight cables
  
  you dont even need to set any protocol if it's just simple internet sharing and file sharing
  
  dont even need to set ip if your router is dhcp enabled
  
• ndmmxiaomayi

  19 Jan 06, 22:51

  Depending on how you want to connect it, you will use either 2 cross cables or 1 cross cable and another LAN cable (can't remember the name)
• ditzy

  19 Jan 06, 22:57

  10/100 cables, use the microsoft network connection wizard, if you know how to answer yes and no questions should be a breeze.