How to creat LAN without an internet connection??

Question

is there some sort of cable? plz details

Answer 1

designing a LAN network not need to internet
when u connect 2 computers to gether u have a LAN
u need network adapter card installed in your computers
and cross cable has made with CAT5 canble with suckets

if u have more than 2 computers u must buy a HUB or Switch
as a central device and connect computers to it
with straight cable

for undrestand the diffrence of cross and straight cable and how u can make it search on www.google.com
or ask again here

Answer 2

A LAN is merely a Local Area Network - there is no need for an internet connection. Having one is common, but certainly not required. Get a cable/DSL router and some switches if necessary. Hook up everything as if you had an internet connection. You now have a LAN - with nothing plugged in to the WAN port of the router so the router is, at best handling DHCP and acting as a switch.

Answer 3

to create a LAN (Local Area Connection) a internet connection is not required , a LAN is a connection between 2 or more machine in one local place. If you want to connect one machine directly to another you will need a crossover Cat5 cable. If you want to connect 2 or more machines you will need a hub or switch (switch is smarter and more expensive). Also if one of the machines has an Internet connection (also called WAN) you can use this connection on all machine thru Internet connection sharing.

Answer 4

Easy, go down to a store and buy a router (with multiple ethernet ports, optionally wireless if that's what you're going for), HUB, or switch and get what's called 'patch cable' or RJ-45 cable, or just plainly ethernet cable (NOT crossover).

Make sure all the computers in the LAN have ethernet cards (very cheap if you don't have one, but you should) or wireless cards if you're going to have a wireless network.

If you're going to use a switch or HUB you should probably assign static IP Addresses to all the computers on the network (Start -> Help if you need more help with that).

Enjoy.

Answer 5

You need a router. A router is a box that has ports in it. Each port requires a Lan cable. 1 to each computer.

If it is a wireless router, then your computers can go wireless, but they have to have wireless capability too.

What is your end goal with a LAN? What do you want to accomplish? File sharing? Printing?

Answer 6

You can do the layer2 or layer3 router; or you can use a HUB, since you're not using an internet connection, and give all of the systems a static i.p. the latter of the three options is more difficult, but cheaper.

Answer 7

windows will setup some default networking stuff between two computers, but it's pretty messy. Linux has some better tools (zeroConf), but that probably doesn't help you.

If this is more than a one-time-thing, your best bet is to get a cheap router and hook your computers up to that. You don't have to have a net connection to do this, so that should work for you.

Answer 8

Connect each of the machines to a central hub, or workgroup switch.
Set up network connections on each machine (addresses in the 192... groups will be assigned), set up file sharing as appropriate on each machine, and you're in business.


For just two machines, you can use a "crossover cable" to connect them directly, using their network interface cards, and te "Direct connect" option

Answer 9

I am assuming more then 2 PC's
If you use a Layer2 switch make 1 VLAN ea. PC will broadcast its own MAC address Plug it in and go

If Router Layer3 enable DHCP set up PC to "Get IP externally"

Answer 10

942 has the correct answer. The rest of the answers are not necessary.