About Ether Ports

[carpenator]

Originally Posted by polobunny

On a side note, Mysterio lives in Canada.
Canada uses the metric system. 100 meters is easier for him to understand. :P

DOH!!! OK, I will just stick with the standards and covert if asked.

The American public will need to convert someday anyway. It will be interesting if/when they start converting the speed limit signs. In our neck of the woods when you cross over the border into Canada they have idiot signs reminding drivers that the speed is KPH and not MPH. I don't know if that is universal or just a WA/ID/MT thing.

[halutzparilla]

okie... just to suggest, try to find out if the driver was installed properlly from hardware to driver software...
if not detected on the device manager then its not properly installed if its installed properly you must check your cable first, by trying a diff and shorter Cat5 cable and if it doesn't work... finally swap NIC device,...

the best way first is check your cable, or get your computer closer to the router... or get a wireless card and run a wireless network instead of plugged cable...

[okron1k]

i'm not quite sure i understand the question. do you have a seperate router? or are you using your 1st computer as a router? (2 ethernet ports on one computer with internet connection sharing)

the diagram posted on the first page is how it should look. if you have a seperate router that is. if you have a seperate router.. you plug the internet into the router, and plug computer 1 into the 1st port, computer 2 into the second port.. and so on.

have you fixed the issue?

[Banditman]

Ok, if I understand the issue here, it is this. Your internet is going into your modem, then your modem is connected to PC 1 via Ether. Then you have a 2nd ether card installed in 1st PC that is used to connect to 2nd PC. And you can get internet on 1st PC but not 2nd. Correct?

The solution if you are using XP and nothing older is:
Open start/control panel. Double click on network connections. You should see the two Ether connections. Select them BOTH and right click. Choose Bridge connections. It will reset the local IP to 192.168.0.1. On the 2nd PC, you can set the local IP on that rig to 192.168.0.2 and DNS server as 192.168.0.1. You might have to run the Internet Connection Wizard on 2nd PC and select the option "My pc connects to the internet via gateway. You must also turn on Internet Connection Sharing on 1st PC. You do that by running the Internet Connection Wizard on 1st Pc also and choose "My PC acts as a gateway" or "other PCs on network connect to internet through this PC" (something of that nature. I haven't done this in years). That will get you going.

What you are doing is daisy chaining the 2 Ether connections. It is really a pain in the butt to properly set that up and you need a correctly configured Ether cable (using standard ether cable will not work). It will also be hard to get some things to work correctly in that situation and you will have to leave 1st PC booted so that 2nd PC can get online. It will be easier on you if you can connect both PCs into an actual router and then plug the router into modem.