Lan problems?

ToM_E · August 13th, 2005

Im not sure if this is the right place to put it...i have been wondering this for a very long period of time and did some research and no luck with it...i have 3 pcs in my room and they all connected to 1 cable modem...through a router...and when i join a game in starcraft, counter-strike and stuff pc #2 and pc #3 cant join the game pc #1 have created...any one know why its doing this? i tried turning off the firewall on all 3 pcs...and still no luck...

RF · August 13th, 2005

First of all the firewall will not affect LAN traffic, so it is safe to keep it on. Secondly set your machines to static ip addresses.

August 13th, 2005	#1 (permalink)
ToM_E Do the Monkey Dance /w me Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Doing the Monkey Dance! Posts: 2,755	Lan problems? Im not sure if this is the right place to put it...i have been wondering this for a very long period of time and did some research and no luck with it...i have 3 pcs in my room and they all connected to 1 cable modem...through a router...and when i join a game in starcraft, counter-strike and stuff pc #2 and pc #3 cant join the game pc #1 have created...any one know why its doing this? i tried turning off the firewall on all 3 pcs...and still no luck... __________________ CPUPentium 4 3.00 Ghz Ram2GB DDR2 PC4200 Video CardRadeon X1600 Pro

August 13th, 2005	#2 (permalink)
RF Canadian Spaceman Join Date: May 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 8,594	First of all the firewall will not affect LAN traffic, so it is safe to keep it on. Secondly set your machines to static ip addresses. __________________

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