Question : Connecting two hubs together

I have a network with 3 computers connected to a 4 port ethernet hub with no server.  Im having a LAN party and need more ports.  My friend has a second 4 port hub.  How would i go about connecting the second hub to the first to effectively give a single larger hub.  Would i just connect two ports with a 10/100 cable? I know this is an easy question so thanks for your help.

Answer : Connecting two hubs together

While I agree with the responses above, nobody really spells it out for you.  I'll try to do so below:

To connect two hubs (or switches) together you need to make sure there's a cross over somewhere inherent  in the connection.  A cross-ever fyi is used with telephones too to make it so that when you speak into the microphone, your words go to the speaker on the receiving end and their words come to your speaker... without a cross over you'd be speaking on the same line as the person you were talking to and you'd both be listening on the same line as well so you wouldn't hear anything.  There has to be a cross over in the system ..... if there's more than one you can still communicate so long as the total # of cross-overs is an odd number of them in all.  

Check your hubs Uplink port.  If there's a toggle switch near it set the toggle so that the port includes a cross-over (there's no standard in use for this kind of thing so I can't tell you what a toggle switch would look like or how it would indicate what settings correspond to it, sorry).  If you can do this then you can use a regular network cable to connect the two hubs so long as you don't plug it into the other Hubs Uplink port.  If you do have to put it in to the other hubs Uplink port you should make sure that there is no cross over in place on that port.  

Somebody mentioned auto-sensing ports - that is they auto sense whether to employ a cross over.  If that's the case then so long as the other hub you're using is also autosensing you shouldn't have any problem whatsoever.  Plug each machine into a hub, connect the two hubs together and you'll be golden.  

One other thing to think about is how you're going to see the other machines on the network.  If you're not connected to the internet and don't have a DNS server then you're going to need some way to identify each machine to the others.  I'd suggest using static IPs on each machine and adding a line for each machine in the Hosts file on each machine but this can be a big hassle.  If you don't have a server running dhcp it can be the easiest way though.  I won't go into that though since it seems a little off-topic.  You can always search experts-exchange for indication on how to emply a hosts file for dns resolution.  I'm sure there are lots of posts on that kind of thing.  

Good Luck,

pjimerson