Connecting two pc's

king_kenny · 9 Feb 2006 at 16:21

Hello everyone, here’s the beef,
I have two computers side by side and I want to be able to transfer files from one to the other. I was wondering could I do it over the internet sort of thing, because both of the pc’s are using a BT Voyager 2091 ADSL router one is Ethernet connection the other USB.
OR
Would it be easier to connect then via a Cat 5 cross over cable ?

Either way I need help, as I am not sure what or how to connect them !!!

Thanks for the help

T180985 · 9 Feb 2006 at 16:27

far easier and faster to just stick some cat5 between them, just plug the cable in between them put them both on the same IP range run the windows networking wizzard and make sure u turn on file sharing and then u should be able to send files accros

tolien · 9 Feb 2006 at 16:27

Buy a switch and use ethernet for both machines' connection to the router, and never use USB again?

king_kenny · 9 Feb 2006 at 16:44

and never use USB again

lol whats wrong with USB llol ???

BigBoy · 9 Feb 2006 at 17:38

USB was never intended for network transfer and tbh its crap when it is used for networking.

Skilldibop · 10 Feb 2006 at 10:49

lol whats wrong with USB llol ???

Slow, inefficient, short range, limited scalability, unreliable.....many things.
USB is for those that can't afford firewire or dont understand Ethernet-TCP/IP.

USB was designed for peripherals. Firewire is basically the same thing only designed with networking in mind.

purejamie · 10 Feb 2006 at 11:12

tolien said:
Buy a switch and use ethernet for both machines' connection to the router, and never use USB again?

Can get some reasonably priced home Gigabit switches these days

tolien · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:29

purejamie said:
Can get some reasonably priced home Gigabit switches these days

Cheaper still for 10/100.

Skilldibop · 10 Feb 2006 at 14:03

At present gigabit is a waste of time for home use as unless you have an U360 Scuzzi array in raid 5 your Hard drive can't shift data as fast as your NIC. Gigabit pushes 125MB/s your HD probably strugles to exceede 50MB/s

Swanster · 10 Feb 2006 at 17:20

Skilldibop said:
At present gigabit is a waste of time for home use as unless you have an U360 Scuzzi array in raid 5 your Hard drive can't shift data as fast as your NIC. Gigabit pushes 125MB/s your HD probably strugles to exceede 50MB/s

Well, if you can get 125MB/s over a 1GB network, then surely you get 12.5MB/s over a 100MBit network, which is much lower than what your hard disk can cope with.
Sure, you certainly won't be able to use a gigabit network to it's full potential at home, but it should still be a serious improvement...?

p.s. it's U320.

OllyM · 10 Feb 2006 at 17:37

Indeed, big improvement over Gigabit even with normal SATA drives when transferring files here.

RAID5 isn't quick either. RAID0 or RAID10 maybe, but not RAID 5.