Accessing the internet on 2 home laptops at the same time

[Bill Zanetti]

Dear Ernest,

Thanks very much for all your help, and we have success. So the problem was the cable.
I therefore have one working cross-over cable, and two straight cables (working or not). Why did I keep a cable that didn't work?

I manually set the LAC tcp/ip as you suggested and will do it that way in future - seems safer.

Please find attached the cmd files for your info.

When I think of all that you have taught me, I feel very grateful. I shall save the thread and can perhaps manage my own home network now.

All the Best

Bill Z

[Bill Zanetti]

Dear Fernando,

I think in part you were right. When I first tried it this morning without manually setting the TCP/IP the client was showing the same IP address as the host .0.1.

I manually set the tcp/ip settings and that is what made it work.

but it did work with the addresses

192.168.0.1

and

192.168.0.2

I mentioned earlier that I hoard cables, I think I should make sure that I hoard cables that I know work.

It is not appropriate to discuss slowness after this success! :)

Thanks for your contribution.

All the Best


Bill Z

[Ernest Ford]

Bill,

I'm happy to know you got it working - my dad used to tell me - if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Fernando

DHCP can work, that's the way Microsoft designed ICS to function, and I have done it that way for many years, 192.168.x.x is an acceptable private address range, and is, again the one that Microsoft chose by design for ICS. In fact, when using ICS with the more recent versions of windows (W2K, WXP) it cannot be changed, although it can in W98SE.

The 10.x.x.x is an acceptable private range as is 172.16.x.x, however anything starting with 127 is not.

[Bill Zanetti]

Dear Ernest,

And I was very trying - thanks again.

All the Best

Bill Z

[Manfred Arndt]

Don't use IP addresses starting with 127, because you will have connectivity problems. The IP 127.0.0.1 is reserved for the internal loopback address and will not forwarded.

[Bill Zanetti]

Dear Forum,

thanks very much, especially Ernest for all your help and I am closing the thread

All the Best


Bill Z

[Bill Zanetti]

Thanks again