Solving the 'LAN Problem' in NFS Underground 2

A friend of mine has recently opened a gaming zone. Having most DVDs of different games, I went to his zone for installing some of my favorites. After getting all the necessary work done (Making the straight wires for the switch and connecting all PC's together over the LAN) we started checking all the games one by one. Things were going fine until we encountered a problem in connecting to the 'Lobby' in NFSU2. It took me quite some time to figure out the problem. The problem was that it took like forever when I wanted to connect to the lobby. The same problem was going on in the other PCs as well. So, how did I solved the problem? It was very simple and very easy...

1. Open your network connection.

2. Right-click on your Local Area Connection and click 'Properties'. You'll see a window as illustrated below:





















3. Double-click on 'Internet protocol (TCP/IP)'. Doing so will open up another window as shown below:





















Here you have to set your IP. Like for the server your IP must be '1' as illustrated in the above image. So lets suppose you've set your IP as '192.168.0.1' for PC1. After doing that you'll have to select the 'Subnet Mask' which will automatically set its subnet to '255.255.255.0'. NOW comes the main part (perhaps the only part due to which I wasn't able to connect to the lobby in NFSU2)... The 'Default Gateway'... Set it to '1.1.1.1' and click ok. That's it, you should be able to connect to the lobby from PC1.

Now setup PC2:
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Just like above set the IP address 1st but now since this is the 2nd PC, its IP should be '192.168.0.2'. If you will give it the same IP address which you've set for PC1 than there will be an IP conflict. So for PC2 you'll set the IP to '192.168.0.2'... The subnet will remain the same as above (255.255.255.0) and the default gateway should also remain the same as above (1.1.1.1). For PC3 the IP will change to '192.168.0.3' and the rest of the process is all same.

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Viola! That should do it. Check it now and please leave a comment if it solved your problem. :)