Connecting 2 computers together temp

[Magic_x_uk]

Just a quick question,

not sure if this should be here or in network forum.

Anyhow

I have my main rig and also a laptop with a small HD on it, I am about to do a reformat on my laptop and I need to copy some data from the main PC to the laptop (about 20GB)

now last time i did this was wirelessly and it took damn ages as well as using my 512MB USB Data stick

I have the wireless laptop and a netgear DG834 G wireless router connected to main pc through R45 cable.

Is there a quick way of temp connecting 2 computers together to send files from one to another.

Or is what i am doing at present quickest way ?

just seems such a lenghty process.

Just wondering if I can plug a cable from my laptop into my router and somehow send files that way, I have networking enabled of course.

thanks

 

[Magic_x_uk]

okay if a get one of those tomorrow, that is exactly what it is called then ? a cross over cable ?

And I cant leave it plugged in all the time as main pc has that plug socket going to the router, so i take it this cross over cable connects to laptop from Main pc and then how do i actually USE that cable and send files etc ?

thank you

 

[Magic_x_uk]

sorry to bump this up again.

AS ns400r said:
Why worry about a crossover cable?

Use a standard UTP cable from the laptop to the router, same with the PC.
The simply use Windows file sharing to move the data across

Is that a normal cable, same as what I have from my network socket on main pc to my netgear dg834g router?

Just get one of them, plug it into laptop and into router and then:-???

HOW do i share and move files then ? I would have thought if i opened "my network places" on both computers and drag and dropped files from main rig to laptop, would it not still use wireless as the transfer method ?


Bit unsure on how to do this

thank