Need help from Internet/Computer guru's

[jmccracken1214]

So me and my wife were trying to play one of the call of duty games online... separate computers and it wont let us connect together. I've had this issue before when I was a kid and played games with my brother in the same house and we would just download a program, such as Hamachi to connect us together on a LAN network and play that way... but it isnt work.

Ive messed with router settings and cant get anything to work. Does anyone know if I can/did buy another router.. can I plug it into my modem, and run 2 different routers? Would that give me another IP address when having 1 pc hooked up to 1 router, and the other pc in the 2nd router?

 

[MacEntyre]

Two internal routers probably won't change a thing, because your modem's MAC address gives it away as one LAN.

You should read a book instead.

 

[Burt Gummer]

Turn it off and turn it back on?

 

[Jeppo]

Have you created an actual local network so both computers can join it?

 

[DrScaryGuy]

can one of you run through a VPN and try that way?
Whichever one of you is least likely to ragequit from getting lagfragged should give it a shot.

 

[JT]

Try a different - more "interactive" - game?

 

[random]

Ive messed with router settings and cant get anything to work. Does anyone know if I can/did buy another router.. can I plug it into my modem, and run 2 different routers? Would that give me another IP address when having 1 pc hooked up to 1 router, and the other pc in the 2nd router?

Not sure why you would want to connect the computers to different routers. Another router wouldn't really hurt anything, but I don't think it would help either. If you're talking about external IPs, no, you only have the one at your external point of contact - adding another router won't get you another one.

If you're using DHCP, it might help to either change to static IP assignment. Many routers have the ability to assign an IP to a specific MAC address, so the computer always has the same internal IP.

If the program is looking at external IPs, there's not much you can do with the router to change that. But if you ran one of the computers through a VPN, that would generate a second IP (at the VPN egress point) that you could use. It would probably also introduce a little lag, depends on your connection and the VPN.