Hi,
I have a quesion about windows networks. If you have two computers and you would like to link them on a network, do the network cards in both the computers have to be the same?
Thanks
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Hi,
I have a quesion about windows networks. If you have two computers and you would like to link them on a network, do the network cards in both the computers have to be the same?
Thanks
If you are trying to connect the two computers together WITHOUT using a hub, then you need a crossover ethernet cable, not a regular patch cable
Or you could use Coax. . . (no hub required)
Or you could use ISDN bridges (requires 2 ISDN links and lots of cash)
Bottom line. . .
There are many ways to network computers. I just wish everyone would stop assuming that people do networking with 10/100BaseT
My LAN is 10BaseT (yup with a HUB), only coz
I got bored of tracking down faults in coax. Coz the hub has little lights to tell you which bit of cable is knackered. . .
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Well drinky, It was safe to assume that he was using 10bt ethernet because over 75-80% of all networks are of that type.
Should I have assumed that rino_2 was running an ATM network with Banyan Vines as the NOS?
NO!
The onlything they have to be is compatible with windows. . . And then you probably won't need to supply any drivers. . .
I know coz I have my own LAN
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Third year Software Engineering Student.
On placement at the University of Manchester
playing with expensive cool things...:)
http://drinky.u4l.com
[email protected]