fastest connection for two computer

[realboy]

I have two computers, each with ethernet card but i dont have a hub. how to connect this two computer for game like quake, halflife or fifa 2001. I dont wanna use serial cable because its tooo slow.
can anyone help ?

[RobRich]

Does the network cards support coaxial or twisted wire connections. If coaxial, then you can wire a 10baseT network with only a a few feet of RG-58 coax, 2 bnc T-adapters, and two terminating resistors. As you add more systems, all you need to do is add additional lengths of coax between each terminated T-adapter.

The prefered method for optimum speed is twisted pair. You will need a Catagory 5 crossover capable since you do not have a hub in place. This is a special cable that has the transmit and receive wires flipped on one end inorder to bypass the need for a hub/router/switch/etc. You will only be able to utulize two PC's in the configuration, but speeds are easily scalable to 100 MBps (even higher with professional level NIC cards) with the proper network cards.

I assume you are using Windows. If so, then check out the help tutorials for home networking. I believe these will answer the majority of your questions.

Good Luck,
Robert Richmond

[This message has been edited by RobRich (edited 06-19-2001).]

[Hellmund]

The Cat5 rob is talkin about is commonly called a cross-over cable, It's standard Cat-5 Ethernet cable except two of the twisted pairs of wires are exchanged, I had a friend with a crimper change some standard Cat5 for me as I don't have a hub either and I needed 20m of crossover, I couldn't find a cross-over cable over 5m any where in my local area so I had him do it.

[radbasa]

uhh, ethernet for the RG-58 coax or thin cable ethernet is 10base-2.

10base-Ts for twisted pair and RJ-45.

[hawkeye177]

The 10baset is fine for playing games. I have it and there is no slow down in multiplayer games at all. Plus it was less than 50 bucks for 2 NIC and a hub. NIce huh

[Tekkitan]

yeah all cross-over is is the 1&3 wires and the 2&6 wires crossed over from a regular patch wire configuration. i am in a computer networking training class at a tech school, learning to do out own cabling, configuring routers, etc. it is very fun. if you learn how to do cabling, and do it quick and no mistakes, you feel like a god http://www.sysopt.com/forum/redface.gif)