Halo CE LAN Tournament

[Papa P]

I'm setting up a Halo: Combat Evolved LAN tournament. It's going to be 2 vs. 2. I'm having trouble getting two test computers (one that I'm going to use and a back up computer) to work. At the moment when I set up a LAN game on either system it doesn't show up in the LAN lobby menu. I have the computers wired together with a switch and I have tried wiring them directly. I have all the network settings at default and the build I am working with is "01.00.04.0607".

 

Any help would be appreciated thank you.

[AlwaysFSX]

Use a switch instead of connecting the computers directly together.

[Oshino Shinobu]

A splitter, or a switch? It should just be a matter of connecting them by a switch. 

[Papa P]

A splitter, or a switch? It should just be a matter of connecting them by a switch. 

 What's the difference? I have them connected with a switch.

[Oshino Shinobu]

 What's the difference? I have them connected with a switch.

A splitter literally splits an 8 wire connection into 4 wires. It allows a single Gigabit cable to be split into 2 100Mbps cables. 

 

Switch connects multiple cables together. If you set up file sharing, can you transfer files between them? It should just work if they're on the same LAN. 

[Wombo]

Everyone will need to set their own IP address. Either that or just leave DHCP enabled on all devices and they should default to the 168.254.0.0/16 network.

[pspfreak]

 

Everyone will need to set their own IP address. Either that or just leave DHCP enabled on all devices and they should default to the 168.254.0.0/16 network.

Or you could turn on internet connection sharing on one machine. Even if you dont have internet, it will act as a DHCP server for every one else. 

[Papa P]

The problem was caused by my antivirus. I uninstalled it and now it works fine. (I was using Vipre).

 

Thanks for the input.