Help With Home Network!!!

Ok i know this is a LAME question but i have searched netgears web page + yahoo and need help.

1) Can a netgear router be used to connect 2 computers togather in a network. (not just share a net connect but to use tcp/ip to play games such as counter strike and diablo 2

The two computers refuse to see each other in network hood.
Computer two can ping computer 1 but 1 cannot ping computer 2 and is stopped at the router.. We both share the same workgroup and have all of our TCP/IP settings set to let the computer decide what to be assigned to where.

I need any help that can be given on this very newbish topic PLZ

To help fully, It would help to know some more info...such as What OS's are you running on your computers? All the info you could give will help.

computer 1winxp home (cannot ping computer 2,stopped at router)
computer 2winxp Pro (can ping computer 1)
What else do you need?

check to see the ports you've plugged your computers in to... make sure that niether of them are in the uplink one, or if you can flick a switch or whatever to make one of the ports the uplink, that it's not set to uplink mode.

Its a 4 port router with single uplink port which connects to the modem.

Comp one is in port 1 ip of xxx.xxx.x.3
comp two is in port 3 IP of xxx.xxx.x.2

i'm not sure if this is the same with all routers, but check if it has a WAN port, and plug your modem in to there. that wouldn't be the problem with why you can't ping, but if there are any other problems, that might be it.

also, check if you're using all straight cables, rather than crossover.

it is really weird, though, that you can ping an ip, and it can't ping back... packets are sent to the destination, then the destination sends them back... so, by all logics, it should be able to ping the other machine if it can dish out a reply. try to ping 127.0.0.1 on each machine... maybe your NIC's messed up.

I was able to ping the address you gave from both puters...

It really makes me wonder why if 1 can ping the other cant, but is still able to respond to the PING.... WTF ARRRRRRGH

Go here, it's your routers Home Page. . . .check it out...


http://www.expressresponse.com/cgi-b...t+Query&page=1

it's all about setting up gaming using your router

Hee hee, just checked out MS's soulution. . . they suggested renaming your XP home computer. . .

done all that already... my problem is with the computers pinging each other

It was the stupid windows firewall on the xp pro machine.....
Thanx to everone who replied

heh, had about the same problem w/ a hub a while back. ;)

Later,

Ndog

make sure that you don't have personal firewalls set up on either computer. (zone alarm, norton personal firewall, etc.) even the built in windows firewall can mess with that .....START>CONTROL PANEL>NETWORK CONNECTIONS>LOCAL CONNECTION(or whatever you named it)>pROPERTIES>ADVANCED.

you may or may not be able to use the firewall and have the two computers still play nice, just by enabling the other computer to be able to cross the firewall....

hope it helps.

.... another note! even if you have zone alarm disabled, it'll still screw up your networking.. you have to uninstall it altogether, or make provisions for it to allow your other comp to work.

adios

have u gone through the routers internal setup? My router (siemens not netgear) has an ip addy in the book that you type into a webborowser and when u do all sortsa of config options come up. Maybe net gear does the same way i dunno worht looking into

I have a lrp box (linux router project) and i have no problems. But a while ago I had the same problem. And i have simply used the wizerd networkconnections in win xp and my problem whas over.

And check if you don't use crossed cables !

What model netgear is it?

Try going to http://192.168.0.1. If it gets you a login prompt its "admin" and the pass is "1234" (you'll DEFINATLY want to change that)

Once in there you should see a bunch of config options. play with those and get back to us.

edit,
I just thought of somethings, it may work, it may not. Maybe you could set the computers to have static routes to each other during your gameplay. Have one computer set as the gateway, and one computer set as the destination. Any of you more advanced AO'ers wanna take a stap at that one?

hmmm.... just had an Idea, not sure if youve got it working yet, so I thought I would post this:
(It might work and it might not, just trying an Idea)

Plug in one computer on one side of the router and the other on the end that would plug into the wall. (The second would need a crossver cable...I think)

It would be like hooking two routers together to connect two networks or a network to the Internet. Is this

Idea posible, fellow AOers?

-Ndog

Ummmmm...........encountered EXACTLY the same problem last week at a client's office.
Uninstalled ZONEALARM......and it was fixed. (Firewall was blocking ping)

Ok,

Thanks for the TON of help i got on this newb question, but this was the problem and solution incase anyone missed it in my previous post.

Problem: 1 computer can ping another but cannont reply to a ping by the computer it just pinged too

Solution: FireWall (DUH :rolleyes: ) In my case it was not my Zonealarm though but the built in windows firewall on the computer running win XP PRO.

So the moral of this story is... If you are haveing 2 way connection problems Disable ALL of your firewalls while troubleshooting the network. I hope we are all a little better informed newbies now :p