BuildItYourself
10-09-2004, 01:29 AM
After believing the dopes at Frys and buying regualar CAT5e cable to connect my two PC's, then returning the cable and getting another, and then thanks to you guys figuring out I needed crossover, my computers are networking beautifully. Multiplayer games work fine, RealVNC is kicking some serious (BLEEP), and sharing files is a breeze, I have come across my 2nd networking nightmare.
Thanks to someone I cannot name I am stuck with AOL. I'm getting tired of waiting for the phone line to be freed up to use the net so I figured I would mess with ICS.
I know that on a 56k connection and ICS, things are going to get pretty ugly, but I figure as long as we don't load pages at the same time everything will work out (kinda). So anyways I reran the network setup wizard and set it to enable ICS.
One computer was the host, the other was the client. The host works fine. On the other computer IE acts like there's no connection. The cable's good, anything else to do with networking runs at a smooth 100 Mbps. Is AOL at fault, or am I? Thanks.
Thanks to someone I cannot name I am stuck with AOL. I'm getting tired of waiting for the phone line to be freed up to use the net so I figured I would mess with ICS.
I know that on a 56k connection and ICS, things are going to get pretty ugly, but I figure as long as we don't load pages at the same time everything will work out (kinda). So anyways I reran the network setup wizard and set it to enable ICS.
One computer was the host, the other was the client. The host works fine. On the other computer IE acts like there's no connection. The cable's good, anything else to do with networking runs at a smooth 100 Mbps. Is AOL at fault, or am I? Thanks.