[Req] Two PC Network Connection

[Dark Ride]

Me and a friend of mine want to connect our (2) PCs together to play some games like Warcarft 3 TFT, Need For Speed Underground, Counter Strike Source. Tony Hawk's Underground 2, ... etc

Can someone give me a guide, as I never did something like that before.What do I need and how much is it going to cost (aprox) ?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: And what if I want to connect more than 2 PCs ?

[Raum]

You could just use a crossover cable to connect the two. All you'd need to do that is the crossover cable, the two computers and to make sur eeach computer has a network card.

[Dark Ride]

Is the setup going to be hard (softwerwise) ? both PCs have WinXP Pro

[Raum]

XP is pretty easy when it comes to networking. Just plug it in and it'll probably automatically detect the connection, as long as those NICs are enabled and have proper drivers and all.

[Dark Ride]

Is this network card going to do the job ? We are going to buy two of those and some crossover cable.

1) Realtek RTL8139D chipset

2) Support 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s N-way auto-negotiation operation

3) Compliant with PCI revision 2.2

4) Support PCI clock 16.75MHz-40MHz

5) Support ACPI, PCI power management

6) Compliant with PC99 standard

7) Support wake-on-LAN function and remote wake-up (Magic packet, and

Microsoft wake-up frame)

8) Support auxiliary power-on internal reset, to be ready for remote

wake-up when main power still remains off

9) Contain 2 large (2KB) independent receive-and-transmit FIFOs

10) Support digital and analog loop back capability on both ports

11) Support full duplex flow control (IEEE 802.3x)

12) Support diagnostic LED pins with programmable outputs

13) Setup/diagnostic program for DOS/Windows

14) NDIS2 (DOS, OS/2, Lantastic, WFW3.1)

15) NDIS3, NDIS4, NDIS5 for Win95, 98, Me, 2000, NT 3.51, 4.0, WFW3.11

16) Packet driver for UNIX client

17) SCO UNIX, FreeBSD, UnixWare 7.0 and Linux driver

18) RPL boot ROM for Novell Netware, Microsoft NT

19) Software support:

a) On-board EEPROM (93C46) programming tool

b) Setup/diagnostic program for DOS/Windows

c) Driver for UNIX

Edited November 12, 2004 by Dark Ride

[Raum]

Looks just fine to me. Good luck with you and your friend.