Saturday, August 27, 2011

How To Connect two Computers Using Crossover Cable

How do you connect two computers for file, drive or printer sharing, multiplayer gaming (only between two computers) and many more things? Ha! It's pretty easy! You only need 1 crossover cable. Most computers motherboards have onboard ethernet these days.


This is wired connection approach to connect 2 computers directly without involving other network devices, such as network router or switch. It’s effective and simple way if you want to connect the computers temporary. If the network card on computers.
Let see how to do it here: Plug in network cable to both computers’ ethernet port. Yep.. we have finished the physical setup.

Now start both computers
We refer to the 2 computers as PC1 and PC2.

PC1:

To configure the TCP/IP connection settings,
1. Goto “Control Panel” >> “Network connections”
2. Right-click on your LAN connection and click “Properties”. In the “General” tab, select “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)”. Click the “Properties” button.
3. Set the Values
IP Address – 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask – 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway – 192.168.0.2
4. Click OK and you are done for PC1.
We refer to the 2 computers as PC1 and PC2.

























 PC2:
To configure the TCP/IP connection settings,
1. Goto “Control Panel” >> “Network connections”
2. Right-click on your LAN connection and click “Properties”. In the “General” tab, select “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)”. Click the “Properties” button.
3. Set the Values
IP Address – 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask – 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway – 192.168.0.1
4. Click OK and you are done for PC2 as well.

























If you have done the above part correctly, the computers will have detected each other. If they don’t, just restart both the computers.Well if you encounter any problem, you can always comment below and I will be always yhere to help you.