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Setting up crossover cables
Dhalphir
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I'm about to take delivery of my new Dell XPS laptop, and I'm wanting to transfer my considerable collection of music, as well as all my patches and savegames from my main PC to the laptop.
The easiest way, I'm told, is with a crossover cable. I also have wireless in my house, however, so thats an option.
But, I'm clueless. How do I go about setting up the crossover cable, or the wireless, to transfer approx ~50gb of stuff from the PC to the laptop?
Speed is not a particular issue. Obviously the faster the better, but if worst comes to worst I'll set it up to transfer overnight, or while I'm at work, or both.
Any help anyone can give? as I understand crossover cables, you just plug a standard Cat5 cable into the respective ethernet ports of the two machines.
Then what?
The easiest way, I'm told, is with a crossover cable. I also have wireless in my house, however, so thats an option.
But, I'm clueless. How do I go about setting up the crossover cable, or the wireless, to transfer approx ~50gb of stuff from the PC to the laptop?
Speed is not a particular issue. Obviously the faster the better, but if worst comes to worst I'll set it up to transfer overnight, or while I'm at work, or both.
Any help anyone can give? as I understand crossover cables, you just plug a standard Cat5 cable into the respective ethernet ports of the two machines.
Then what?
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take your laptop, and bridge your wireless adapter to your LAN adapter in Network connections by holding Ctrl and clicking on them both, and then right-click on them while they're both selected and choose "Bridge Connections"
Then, take your plain old straight through and plug it into both your laptop and your other PC, and the other PC should have it's own internet connection on the router that your laptop is on and everything, so as long as both PCs can see themselves you should be good.
Do keep in mind that for 50 gigs you still want to break that up into smaller transfers.
Of course, this has worked for me, I'm not certain if there's anything specific about my configs that I have enabled or not, or if it's something you have to tweak in Xp that works implicitly in Vista, etc..
It may be worth it to invest in a USB hard drive. Simpler, and you have a proven solution for future needs. Plus, you can take movies and ROMs to work!
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A crossover cable essentially is a backwards cat5 cable. You can buy them on the cheap at radioshack, etc, or make one yourself if you have a crimping tool. You don't need one if you have a router.
1. You may or may not need a crossover cable, depending on if one/both of the ethernet cards will auto-switch to crossover or not. Some will, some won't.
2. If you have any kind of hub or switch or router you can plug two regular ethernet cables into that instead.
3. If you do use a crossover cable or a hub/switch that does not have its own DHCP server, then do this:
A) Go into the TCP/IP properties for the Ethernet connection on each machine and assign each one a static IP in the 192.168.x.x range (192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 are fine). Since you're not on the real Internet, it actually doesn't matter what IP range you use as long as the first three numbers are the same, and 192.168.x.x is reserved for internal networks.
ping 192.168.0.1
(or whatever the IP address of the other machine is). You should get replies back.
C) On machine 2, right-click on My Computer and select "Map Network Drive." Pick an unused drive letter like H:. For the other field, enter this:
\\192.168.0.1\c$
You will be prompted for a username and password; enter the username/password of an administrator account on Computer 1. Note: if you don't use a password to login to machine 1, you may not be able to do this; either set a password or create a new admin account temporarily with a password.
This will mount Machine 1's C drive as Machine 2's H drive. It doesn't matter if you do it the other way around, either. Then, you can use Windows Explorer to copy files from one to the other at relatively high speed.
Interesting. This could've been exactly why my solution worked. If that was the case I didn't need any of the bridging stuff.
Oh, hey I'm making a game! Check it out: Dr. Weirdo!