setting up a LAN

[Uncle Damn]

Can someone give me some pointers about setting up a LAN to play ptw, please?
I'm going to visit my family over christmas and want to play my brother, who has civ3 and ptw. i have a pc with an ethernet port and he has a laptop with the same. My pc has the misfortune to run on windows millenium while his laptop has xp. do we need anything else (except the cable)??

 

[Dimy]

windows xp and windows me have no problem communicating with eachother, so it should be no problem to set up the LAN.
Make sure you have the right UTP cable, a normal UTP cable won't do the job without a HUB... however, if you use a crosslink (or crossover) UTP cable you can directly connect the two pc's.

Make sure you have the client for microsoft networks installed on both computers and of course the tcp/ip protocol. If ok there's a network setup wizard in windows that should set up the network automatically.

-Dimitry

 

[kring]

I have a Linksys Router, and have the computers hooked up to it. I have a Windows Me and Windows XP Home computer. Will the network setup wizards be fairly easy to follow, and which one (or does it matter) do I need to add to it first?