Networking Question

[Keyser Soze]

I've got PS2 in my room and my PC. My PC is connected to the internet by a wireless network card. I also have a regular style network card in the PC as well.

Can I share the internet connection with my PS2 by hooking up the RJ45 cable from the regular network card in my pc to the playstation?

[Kid Afrika]

Yes, but I think you need a x-over cable. You'll also have to use Network Connection Sharing that's built into Win2k/XP to share you incoming wireless connection over the LAN adapter.

[Keyser Soze]

How do I use Network Connection Sharing? Do I simply connect my cross over cable from my Lan card to my PS2?

[Goatweed]

if you have wireless, wouldnt it be easier to hook up the PS2 wirelessly also? esp. if theyre in the same room, it seems silly to run crossover cables.

[Keyser Soze]

i dont have a wireless adapter for my PS2

[Goatweed]

they're like $40 - the Linksys ones are really good, just plug them in and you're done.

[Keyser Soze]

show me one.

[Goatweed]

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they want $70 - so my $40 might have been too low, but I'm sure if you hunt around you can find it for less than Best Buy. I could swear these were on sale not too long ago for $40 though, because I was looking to go wireless and the price seemed right - but I stuck with the cabling anyway.

[Keyser Soze]

ok well i cant get one right now, how do i run my net connection from my pc to my PS2 then?

[Goatweed]

Are you using a wireless router for your PC? Doesn't it have 4 wire ports? If so, run Cat5 from one of those ports to the PS2. Why are you trying to go through the PC?

[Keyser Soze]

the router is upstairs, i do that with it already when im close enough to the router. thus the reason why im looking for alternate means to get on the network.

[Goatweed]

I assumed the router was in the same room - sorry.

I guess you can try the patch cable like Kid said and enable internet sharing, but Im not sure if that'll work. Most times, like with 2 PC's, you gotta enable the IS on both - I don;t think you can do that on a PS2.

Look into getting one of those wireless adapters though - they're supposedly really good. I couldnt go wireless, I've got too much shit going on so I'd get loads of interference.

[Kid Afrika]

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The way I used to use it was I had a DSL connection coming into one NIC on a PC and then the second NIC was connected to a hub. All other computers were connected to that hub. The second NIC on the first PC would assign IP addresses to the machines that were connected to the hub. It's pretty much like using the PC as a router. In Keyser's case, the incoming connection will be the wireless card and the outgoing connection will be the NIC. He needs a x-over cable because he's leaving out the hub.

[Goatweed]

that's kinda cool, seems like a lot of work though.

[Keyser Soze]

ok i tried it but this is what my network connections window looks like now...

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[Kid Afrika]

That's a firewire port.

[diceisgod]

There might be some interference from the wall socket. Get a fork and try to clear out any dust in there.

[Keyser Soze]

i spent an hour making my own crossover cable and it still didnt work

[Goatweed]

by now you could've gone to Best Buy and bought the adapter, opened it, hooked it up and played a few rounds of SOCOM with Mad.

[Keyser Soze]

sad but true