lan gaming not working between pc's

[Luke]

ok i got it working lol. Im not sure exactly what i did, i turned off the firewall but that did not work, then i was screwing around with some settings, and changing th ip's slightly, and i tried it and it worked.

Thanks for all your help alehkcis, as you can tell networking is not my thing lol, im more of a hardware/software/gaming person.

 

[alehkcis]

good for you, now you can enjoy playing LAN games

 

[Luke]

i already have been, played about 4 hours with a friend...although, i can't figure out how to change my ip on my vista computer

 

[Whirlwind]

Enjoy your lan.

 

[alehkcis]

netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" static 192.168.0.10 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1 1


go to command prompt in your windows vista pc and type that command im not sure if vista still supports this command but i think does ,just change 192.168.0.10 with the ip address that you want to use and change 192.168.0.1 with your gateway , dont remove the 1 in the end....i hope this helps you

 

[Wildside]

so let me get this straight, in order to get LAN working in about....any game......me and my friends or family needs to be on the same IP Address and private network?

 

[alehkcis]

wildiside is has to be the same ip range not same ip address
example:
game server:192.168.1.2
client1:192.168.1.3
client2:192.168.4

you can change the last digit to any digit except 0 and 255

and use this subnet 255.255.255.0
and use this gateway 192.168.1.1
i advice using 1 as the gateway so you can avoid confusion in ip addresses

 

[Wildside]

wildiside is has to be the same ip range not same ip address
example:
game server:192.168.1.2
client1:192.168.1.3
client2:192.168.4

you can change the last digit to any digit except 0 and 255

and use this subnet 255.255.255.0
and use this gateway 192.168.1.1
i advice using 1 as the gateway so you can avoid confusion in ip addresses

thx a lot!

 

[Luke]

i have not had the time to see if that will work, right now im on a mac book at my school. Hopefully i will get a chance when i get home.