LAN help

I'm going away for a few days in the weekend with a friend, and we will be away from having an internet connection. We would like to play some head to head on some older games Rome TW for example. However, I've never managed to link our PC's up by directly connecting them each other via a network cable. I've read some guides, but it never works.

Is there any help you can offer me, or is there any kind of software that can do this automatically?

Thanks

 

Simplest way to do home network: take any old router and plug computers to it. It doesn't need internet connection but it will provide ip settings automatically to the local network.

Router has to be properly configured of course. Most of those already do that by default, so restoring default settings would work.

The computers, update antivirus software to the latest and scan your computer before leaving home. If you have time, scan with some other brand online scanner just in case. You don't want to be the one who infected other computer. Mocking will never end

Games should usually work with default windows settings, if they do not work right away try disabling the windows/internet security firewall (or make manual exceptions). That was also one of the reasons to update AV.

Have your games patched to the latest / same version as the others. Make sure there is game install discs and required patches with them in case someone has to reinstall. Without internet connection "version mismatch" is pretty much impossible to solve unless everyone installs same version.

If you wish to transfer files between computers, that either works out of the box or it's totally different story....