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How to Configure A Halo PC LAN Game

Want to play Halo PC over LAN, but you can't? Here's how.

1. Put both of the computers on a LAN, whether it be with a single cable (which must be orange), a LAN hub, or anything more complex, as well as try making a Halo game. This is assuming you know how.
2. If this fails, have both computers do the following. Exit Halo, as well as go to Start -> Run, then type "cmd" without the quotes. This will bring up a comm as well as prompt.
3. Type "ipconfig". This should bring up a list of many things, one of which should say "IP Adress," as well as that's what it's called. Copy the numbers down, including the dots.
4. Have one of the computers take the other's IP adress as well as type "ping", a space, as well as then the other's IP adress. Wait about 30 seconds.
5. If it is finished in this time, type "exit". Then skip to step 7.
6. If it it's not finished in that time, press Control + C, then type "exit".
7. Go to Control Panel, then Network Connections. There should be either Wireless Network Connection or LAN Connection. If there are two, disable whichever one has a red X on it, as well as if they both are free of these X's, disable one of them. If that doesn't work, try disabling the other. If there is only one, then do nothing to it.
8. Whichever one you didn't disable in the last step, right-click on as well as select Properties. There should be a box in the center of the screen. Scroll down to the bottom of the box, as well as it should have TCP/IP at the bottom. Select it as well as click Properties.
9. Select "Use the following IP adress," as well as take the IP of your computer before as well as type it in. Press Tab once as well as then press OK.
10. Try steps 2-4 again. If it fails, try changing the last numbers in the IP from step 9 to something else, as well as make sure the last digits are different for each computer.
11. Create a Halo game as well as try to join it on LAN. If not, use the IP that was put into step 10 to join it, under Join Game, Direct IP, or have the server host hold F1 as well as tell you that IP.

• It may help to hook it up with an orange LAN cable. In this case, in step 7, disable Wireless, as well as right-click on LAN. You can try other colors, but it is unsure that they'll work.

• If you don't have Windows XP, the instructions may be slightly different.
• Typing anything else into the comm as well as prompt is likely to just give you an error, but typing anything else that isn't suggested here is not reccomended unless you know what you're doing.

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Added: Thu Feb 02 2006

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