Re: Can 2 PCs with same IP connect to zone?

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Chris Shearer Cooper wrote:
I've got a small LAN in my house with 4 machines on it, I'd like to have 2 people on 2 machines connect to a game on the zone simultaneously, but it gets all freaky when I try ... it sometimes lets us both join a game, but then he doesn't show up on my list of people waiting to play, and I don't show up on his ... and only one of us is allowed to chat, the other one's chats don't show up at all ...

I'm guessing it's because we're sharing an Internet connection, so from the outside world's point of view, we have the same IP address?

Thanks!
Chris

Look here for some ideas:

http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/MultiPlayer.html#2IPS

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