Home Network With Hub

  1. #1
    Llewellyn is offline Newbie

    Home Network With Hub

    Hi People,

    I bought a HUB with 8 jack interfaces. I want to connect two PC's together so that Ican print to one printer from 2 PC's and I would like to access the enternet thruogh one PC. They are both quite new (6months old) PC's. I run WindowXP on them both. I had LAN cables made up. I connected them as is described by the WindowsXP network setup wizard. I can see the lights go on when I connect the cables from the PC's to the hub. Windows is supposed to set up the connections by itself because it is using DHCP/TCP as I have heard, but it does not. What could be wrong? Please help me.

    Regards,

    Llewellyn


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    Bear is offline D-A-L Elite Member
    Is this a hub or a router with NAT and DHCP enabled? If it's a hub you will have to configure the IP addresses manualy. If it's a router I recommend you contact the company that makes the router's tech support for help setting it up.

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    Bear is offline D-A-L Elite Member
    Router vs. Hub This is a fairly good explanation. HTH

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    Llewellyn is offline Newbie
    Quote Originally Posted by Bear
    Router vs. Hub This is a fairly good explanation. HTH
    Thank you for the web site. It is very informative. I did not solve my problem yet, I will do so a bit later. Thanx once again.

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