How To connect Two computers By Lan ?

Question

Please Explain Step by step , what are the Requirements , and how much will it cost to connect two computers by lan , , actually i want to share an internet connection on both pcs ,

Answer 1

if youalready have the lan connection and are adding two more computers then you need ethernet cables(not 8 pin phone cables but cat5 ethernet cables, and computers need a ethernet card.

Answer 2

Cost will depend upon how much equipment your computers already have, plus how you want to connect them (wirelessly or wired). For example, many computers already come with either a wired network adaptor or wireless network adaptor. But in general:

This assumes that you already have a broadband connection (either DSL or cablemodem); sharing a dialup connection between two computers is, in my opinion, not worth it A DSL connection will cost about $20-$35 a month, depending upon how fast a connection you want, and cablemodem about $45 a month. Your broadband provider will provide a modem that connects to either the phone line or cable.

Next, you'll need a router, a device that takes the signal from the modem and routes it to your different machines. You can go wired (meaning you connect the machines to the router using a network cable) or wireless. Wired is faster, more secure, and easier to establish a connection (i.e., you should see all of the questions on Yahoo! Answers from people who have problems establishing their wireless connection). A strictly wired router will run about $40 (although, since the cheaper wireless routers are close in price, and a wireless modem will typically allow you to plug in a network cable for wired networking, you may want to still get a wireless modem in case your needs change in the future).

If you want to go wired and still have the flexibility of wireless, you can install something called a Powerline network or HomePlug network. Powerline networking involves using adapters that turn the electrical system in your house into a wired network. You just plug the ethernet adapters into a wall socket where your router and computers are located and then run a network cable from the adapter to your routers and your computers. Each Powerline adapter (and you'll need three if you want to connect a router and two machines) runs about $60 to $100, so it's adds a bit to the price of a wired network.

Wireless is slower, but that is only significant if you plan on tranferring huge data files from one computer to another. The primary benefit of wireless is it gives you the flexibility of locating the computers in different rooms (well, you can run wire from one room to the other, if you're a decent do-it-yourselfer). A decent wireless router will run about $40-$60.

You want to make sure you install the router (and, hence your DSL modem or cable modem from above) in a centralized location in your home so the signal will reach to the most areas. That is, the signal strength from the wireless router to your machines will depend upon how the distance and how many obstructions (walls) there are between them. If your router is in the basement at one end of your home and one of the machines you want to connect is on the second floor at the other end, you may need to buy a repeater or access point for about $70.

Each machine needs a network adaptor if it doesn't have networking built in. For a desktop machine, a wired PCI network adaptor (a card that you install inside your machine) is about $20. For wireless, a desktop card will run about $40. For a laptop, a PCMCIA card (a card you fit into a slot on the side) will run about $40-$50 for wireless, $30-50 for wired. For either type of machine you can get a USB network adapter that plugs into the USB port. That offers the most flexibility and ease of installation. Wired versions are about $30, wireless a little more expensive.

If you go wired, then you'll also need network (ethernet) cables, which are cheap, to connect the router to each machine.

Bare minimum requirement is a router and a network adapter for each machine if it doesn't have networking built-in. If you're not sure if your machines have networking built-in, right-click on My Computer on your Desktop. Select Properties. Click the Hardware tab. Click the Device Manager tab. If you have a network adapter built-in, you should see a "Network Adapters" category in the list, coming after Monitors. Click on the plus sign next to Network Adapters to see what kind you have.

Answer 3

Connecting a 2d computing device to the internet via ICS (internet Connection Sharing) has some hazards: It eats memory on the computing device linked to the modem. That computing device should be on for the different one to get admission to the internet. That computing device is slowed down through attending to provider requests from the different computing device (that is appearing as a router). a actual router is low priced and receives rid of the topics.

Answer 4

for that u need a wireless router on which you caould find nice deal at www.deals2buy.com and as u said u want to connect 2 pc's then u need wireless usb g adapter or a wireless networking card (if your pc have slot adapter will be cheap but usb g adapter will cost 30-40$

Answer 5

It's easy. Get a cheap router(wireless or wired). Frys usually has some on sale for 30 or less. If wired youneed a cable which is not too much either. Follow this.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,108740-page,1/article.html

Answer 6

both of the pcs should have LAN card.
then u need ethernet cable. all of these will cost a liitle.if ur xp OS cant find both of the pcs
then right click on my network places -->properties-->right click on the default Icon-->Properties-->TCP/IP--> give the ip addresses-->apply -->ok
apply the process for both of the pcs.
learn more abt ip address b4 playing it.