Crossover Cables

jellybeard999 · 6 Sep 2008 at 19:43

I have a wifi router downstairs and want a fileserver and my main pc in the same room upstairs, both PCs are wireless connected to the router for net connection.

Is it possible to set a crossover cable for these two PCs (between each other) for file transfers/access?

Only the fileserver will be on always.

Other way is for the fileserver to connect wirelessly and the main PC to connect to the net through the fileserver ?

What would be best ?

tolien · 6 Sep 2008 at 19:49

A crossover cable between the two machines, doing what? Just connecting them won't connect them to the router.

jellybeard999 · 6 Sep 2008 at 20:01

tolien said:
A crossover cable between the two machines, doing what? Just connecting them won't connect them to the router.

I want to :

Have all PCs connected to the router (net connection)
Have Fileserver connected to the net without main pc being on

Which can be achieved with a wireless card in each PC.

I would ideally like the fileserver and main PC to be connected with cat5 rather than wireless for filetransfers - windows share, daemon tools etc etc

Is this possible i suppose is the question.

tolien · 6 Sep 2008 at 20:19

Buy a switch to link them together, and run a cable from the switch to the router, or have you got to connect the machines to the router with wireless?

jellybeard999 · 6 Sep 2008 at 20:49

tolien said:
Buy a switch to link them together, and run a cable from the switch to the router, or have you got to connect the machines to the router with wireless?

Yes, the router is downstairs.

Other possibility was to buy another wireless router to use as a wireless access point (i believe this is possible) and switch (most WAPs seem to only have a single ethernet).

I want to do this cheaply if possible.

tolien · 6 Sep 2008 at 21:15

In which case use a cable between them (if the network card at either end is fairly new, it doesn't matter what type of cable you use), and bridge the wired and wireless interfaces on whichever box you want?

jellybeard999 · 6 Sep 2008 at 21:29

tolien said:
In which case use a cable between them (if the network card at either end is fairly new, it doesn't matter what type of cable you use), and bridge the wired and wireless interfaces on whichever box you want?

Would you be able to explain that further ?

Wireless on both, cable between, then select to bridge the wired connection in network connection settings ?

Do I need to select bridge on both PCs ?

What does this do ? Does it just automatically mean any communication between the two pcs in question will be over the wire, but any other pcs will be over wireless ? (bear in mind I connect at 2000kbps at best - rural area

)

If so, sounds ideal, thanks

On another note, since i've had no answer elsewhere, im using an ancient (Slot 1 P3) PC as the fileserver, which I think will only have USB1, is this a limit for wireless G ?

tolien · 6 Sep 2008 at 21:44

Wireless on one to connect to the router, cable between them, and bridge the two connections on whichever box has wireless. If the server is going to always be on, it's the ideal candidate to have the wireless adapter in it.

Both machines having wireless and cable would probably be awkward unless the interfaces linking them were in a different subnet.