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I want to connect two Acer notebooks with a single ethernet cable between them for lan gaming.
Connecting them to a router or a switch is not an option due to distance. I found a couple of tutorials by searching for it, but all of them depended on the already extinct Workgoup function on Windows, thus I can't confidently follow the tutorial.
So I would appreciate any help with this, because it doesn't seem as simple as plug the cables in the notebooks.
You set static IPs on each device. That's all. If your guides relied in Workgroups, you're reading the wrong guides. Workgroups is about file transfer and share access, not about directly connecting two devices with a Lan cable. – music2myear – 2019-09-07T01:47:10.547
This isn't really a duplicate of the question referenced above. That question relates to Linux and Mac systems, whereas this concerns only Windows. There are some subtle differences. – Mr Ethernet – 2019-09-07T03:55:08.827