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  1. Check your lan cards and cables on workability.

2aa. Check that your LAN connection actualy works on all PC, connect each one of them between each other(if you have that much time to test 100% connection is ok) 2b

b. Check your LAN configuration on each PC, so they must be in one network and share same mask example IP: / example MASK:

  192.168.0.101&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0<br>
  192.168.0.102&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0<br>
  192.168.0.103&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0<br>
  192.168.0.104&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0

no DNS or gateway needed

  1. Then plug all of the LAN cables from PC's to the switch/hub (most modern switches do not care how you cross patch your cables as long as they are the same in configuration)

OR

UouYou can do steps 11 and 2 then put all cables into ROUTER,2 after that configure router to enable DHCP on it and set all your LAN configuration on PC's to Auto.

  1. Put all cables into ROUTER, after that configure router to enable DHCP on it and set all your LAN configuration on PC's to Auto.

If there are still problems and your 1 and 2 steps are ok, see that you OS configuration with network has shared files enabled for local network (Its home network for XP and W7)

  1. Check your lan cards and cables on workability.

2a. Check that your LAN connection actualy works on all PC, connect each one of them between each other(if you have that much time to test 100% connection is ok) 2b. Check your LAN configuration on each PC, so they must be in one network and share same mask example IP: / example MASK:

  192.168.0.101&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0<br>
  192.168.0.102&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0<br>
  192.168.0.103&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0<br>
  192.168.0.104&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0

no DNS or gateway needed

  1. Then plug all of the LAN cables from PC's to the switch/hub (most modern switches do not care how you cross patch your cables as long as they are the same in configuration)

OR

Uou can do steps 1,2

  1. Put all cables into ROUTER, after that configure router to enable DHCP on it and set all your LAN configuration on PC's to Auto.

If there are still problems and your 1 and 2 steps are ok, see that you OS configuration with network has shared files enabled for local network (Its home network for XP and W7)

  1. Check your lan cards and cables on workability.

a. Check that your LAN connection actualy works on all PC, connect each one of them between each other(if you have that much time to test 100% connection is ok)

b. Check your LAN configuration on each PC, so they must be in one network and share same mask example IP: / example MASK:

  192.168.0.101&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0<br>
  192.168.0.102&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0<br>
  192.168.0.103&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0<br>
  192.168.0.104&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0

no DNS or gateway needed

  1. Then plug all of the LAN cables from PC's to the switch/hub (most modern switches do not care how you cross patch your cables as long as they are the same in configuration)

OR

You can do steps 1 and 2 then put all cables into ROUTER, after that configure router to enable DHCP on it and set all your LAN configuration on PC's to Auto.

If there are still problems and your 1 and 2 steps are ok, see that you OS configuration with network has shared files enabled for local network (Its home network for XP and W7)

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  1. Check your lan cards and cables on workability.

2a. Check that your LAN connection actualy works on all PC, connect each one of them between each other(if you have that much time to test 100% connection is ok) 2b. Check your LAN configuration on each PC, so they must be in one network and share same mask example IP: / example MASK:

  192.168.0.101&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0<br>
  192.168.0.102&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0<br>
  192.168.0.103&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0<br>
  192.168.0.104&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;255.255.255.0

no DNS or gateway needed

  1. Then plug all of the LAN cables from PC's to the switch/hub (most modern switches do not care how you cross patch your cables as long as they are the same in configuration)

OR

Uou can do steps 1,2

  1. Put all cables into ROUTER, after that configure router to enable DHCP on it and set all your LAN configuration on PC's to Auto.

If there are still problems and your 1 and 2 steps are ok, see that you OS configuration with network has shared files enabled for local network (Its home network for XP and W7)