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whitebloodcell

whitebloodcell

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I need to do a reinstall of Windows, so to save the hassle of Burning my Music to DVD I want to just transfer it over to my other PC. They are netwroked together wirelessly but transfer over the network will take forever since our Wireless works really slowly - thick walls, old house.

So I had the idea of FTPing it over through a Crossover Cable. I use FlashFXP as my main FTP Program. How do I do this? Just connect together, enter the IP of the other comp (How to i find this?) and transfer?
 
Yeah, Ive got a 128mb Flash Drive, no way Im paying for 2GB Flash memory. Cheaper to get a HDD. But its a moot point, I did the transfer over the network.
 
X-over cable is good to use, I have a crossover cable setup going from my desktop for when I have to transfer bigger files to my laptop, it's 100Mbps max and about 12-50Mbps average.

There are other ways, I believe. What about IEEE1394? from what I understand, if you have firewire on both computers, you can use the IEEE1394 network for file transfers (~400Mbps).

Lastly, there are products out there that utilize USB 2.0 (~480Mbps). Check out some computer stores.
 
xover cable? I think I need that if it's what I think it is... It can transfer files from 1 system to another using USB right? Where can I get that?
 
pnutz409 said:
xover cable? I think I need that if it's what I think it is... It can transfer files from 1 system to another using USB right? Where can I get that?
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Its not USB, Crossover is ethernet. Just networking two computers together without a router.
 
Better yet, if you have a decent sized spare HDD hanging around, why not slave it and drag 'n' drop? Things might go quite a bit quicker. I bought a WD 80gb hard disk just for this purpose since i've been doing so much transfer lately

~ Gos
 
what have you got in there? on my GF's computer, we just slide out her CD Rom and pop an EIDE slave in it's place.


~ Gos
 
whitebloodcell said:
Its a Dell you see. (I ashamed) so only has room for two 2 HDDs.
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Just open the case hook up the hdd to the cable and leave it outside of the case while you are copying the data across - no need to screw the hdd in place etc.
 
whitebloodcell said:
Its a Dell you see. (I ashamed) so only has room for two 2 HDDs.
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You don't have to mount the drive somewhere, just pull the cd-rom out and stick an HDD in, all temporary like and drag n drop.


~ Gos
 
Crossovers rock. Not only can you directly connect two computers together, most switches now compensate for crossovers and so you can connect them PC <--> switch now :)
 
Cjwinnit said:
Crossovers rock. Not only can you directly connect two computers together, most switches now compensate for crossovers and so you can connect them PC <--> switch now :)
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I don;t understand what you mean
 
It means, that regardless of whether you connect a crossover cable, or a straight through cable, both will work the same, the newer switches are smart like that.

Personally, i use a D-Link hub that does that for a personal intra-net in my apartment, works terrific :)


~ Gos
 
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