Re: Home Network

mathius78@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


I tried to set up a network but it's not letting me. I can't get them
one device on the other in the network places / workgroup spaces,
etc... I'll keep trying to set them up.

A basic command you can use is ping. The address is the
address of the distant computer you want to verify is
connected.

ping 192.168.1.6

You can ping from laptop to router.
Ping from laptop to other PC.
And all the other possible combinations.

You run the ping command in a DOS (command prompt) window.

The ipconfig command can be used to get your local
address on the laptop or the PC. You can then verify
whether DHCP worked properly, and the router "gave"
an address to the connected computers. The command is sumply:

ipconfig

When you set up DHCP on the router, usually there is a
starting address (192.168.1.5) and you can also specify
a maximum number of devices that can connect (2 or more in
your case).

The ping command doesn't rely on workgroups or shares. So
those upper levels of networking can be ignored, until the
lower layers are working. As long as you can "ping" everything,
that is a start.

I expect a port has to be open, for ping to work. So if a
Firewall was absolutely blocking everything, then ping
won't necessarily work. But ping is the best command I know
of, to get started.

To help out the other responders, you might update the networking
drawing, showing what addresses things seem to have so far. For
example:
router public addr (WAN)
216.16.211.217
cable_modem ------------------- router
| |
wired PC | | wireless laptop
192.168.1.5 | | 192.168.1.6
PC Laptop
(LAN) (LAN)
HTH,
Paul
.

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