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Hey, could someone give me a step-by-step teaching me how to setup a LAN network that me and my brother can play on? I am using windows7. And we are using the same router.

both of you need to use wired connections... if you are both wired, than that should work... then just get the ip and start a new lan game from advanced and then the other one will use the ip to log in... easy as that...

wired? what do you mean by that?

davidpace wrote:wired? what do you mean by that?

The one end of the wire is in your PC the other end is in your brother's PC.

Sorry, nube question. Wire from what?

PilzAdam wrote:

davidpace wrote:wired? what do you mean by that?

The one end of the wire is in your PC the other end is in your brother's PC.

the ethernet cable... you know, the white one?

wait. wait. i have wifi-lan. i can play mt on my laptop on server hosted on my big PC. i connect them both to one router, then write ip of the PC. and that's it.

davidpace wrote:Hey, could someone give me a step-by-step teaching me how to setup a LAN network that me and my brother can play on? I am using windows7. And we are using the same router.

Basically a LAN server.

And leroy?

Leroy wrote:

davidpace wrote:Hey, could someone give me a step-by-step teaching me how to setup a LAN network that me and my brother can play on? I am using windows7. And we are using the same router.

Basically a LAN server.

Start a game from the "advanced" tab. The "address" field should be blank, so minetest starts it's own server rather than connect to one. Leave this game open because this is your server. Then, run cmd and type "ipconfig". The number after "IPv4" is your IP address. Simply connect any other computer to that address.

What about port forwarding? And the subnet mask, or the default gateway?

Menche wrote:Start a game from the "advanced" tab. The "address" field should be blank, so minetest starts it's own server rather than connect to one. Leave this game open because this is your server. Then, run cmd and type "ipconfig". The number after "IPv4" is your IP address. Simply connect any other computer to that address.

not neaded for lan

davidpace wrote:What about port forwarding? And the subnet mask, or the default gateway?

Menche wrote:Start a game from the "advanced" tab. The "address" field should be blank, so minetest starts it's own server rather than connect to one. Leave this game open because this is your server. Then, run cmd and type "ipconfig". The number after "IPv4" is your IP address. Simply connect any other computer to that address.

you don't need that stuff. it's to play online, like, far away

It doesnt work for me :(, okay, I went to advanced section, selected a world I wanted. left the address blank. port 30000, started the game, went to cmd program, the number under the IPv4 I assume you meant the default gateway, that number was 192.168.0.1 and we tried the subnet mask also which was 255.255.255.0 and my brother couldnt connect. why?

davidpace wrote:It doesnt work for me :(, okay, I went to advanced section, selected a world I wanted. left the address blank. port 30000, started the game, went to cmd program, the number under the IPv4 I assume you meant the default gateway, that number was 192.168.0.1 and we tried the subnet mask also which was 255.255.255.0 and my brother couldnt connect. why?

Disconnect from internet and dissable the firewall if you are on windows. Make sure to enable it when connection again.

davidpace wrote:It doesnt work for me :(, okay, I went to advanced section, selected a world I wanted. left the address blank. port 30000, started the game, went to cmd program, the number under the IPv4 I assume you meant the default gateway, that number was 192.168.0.1 and we tried the subnet mask also which was 255.255.255.0 and my brother couldnt connect. why?

Near the top of the output of ipconfig, I have this line:

(that address is my local one, it won't work for you) It is 2 lines above my "default gateway" line. Do you have that line?