PC to PC connection

Mancunian

Hi all

I remember the old days of serial to serial connection with a crossover cable but whats the best way these days?

is there any such thing as a crossover USB cable?

thanks

Mr_Skint_2

CAT 5/5e Cable,, Via Ethernet...... As in a LAN

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=45887&&source=14&doy=search

Mrtickle_3

Depend's on the PC's best bet is to buy a cross over ethernet cable. I'm fairly sure you can't network PC's via USB (not 100%)

Number_6_3

Mrtickle wrote:

I'm fairly sure you can't network PC's via USB (not 100%)

usb link cable

If not cat5 or cat6 crossover depending whether your network card is 10/100 or 10/100/1000

R

Number_6_3

http://www.homestead.co.uk/productcategorydetail.aspx?CategoryID=51166&onspecialoffer=False

Also good selection of cat 5 crossover...

R

matty_c608

Number_6 wrote:

usb link cable

If not cat5 or cat6 crossover depending whether your network card is 10/100 or 10/100/1000

R

That's for file transfers, not Networking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And eBay has a good selection of crossover cables - and they will be custom built for you, sold by the meter! (Most sellers anyways!)

Matt.

bunking_off

matty_c608 wrote:

That's for file transfers, not Networking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And eBay has a good selection of crossover cables - and they will be custom built for you, sold by the meter! (Most sellers anyways!)

Matt.

Who said he wanted to do networking? The OP was asking for a PC-PC link, which is exactly what the USB unit does. Incidentally, it comes with software to share an internet connection so if you've e.g. got an older PC with no ethernet card and still rely on a USB DSL modem (yuk) it'll also do the job for that.

I picked up one of these from the QVC shop last week, admittedly only paying £6. Does what it says on the box. Have been using it as a point to point backup from my work PC onto my home PC, given the latter's got a good size hard drive & DVD-writer, work PC's only got a CD-writer hence needs 6 CDs to backup my data. All my attempts at getting FTP to work between the two had failed (foiled by firewalls locked down by our security folks) - the Trust unit solved the problem in <1 minute.

Mancunian

thanks everyone! very much appreciated!

it was only for file transfers..off an old laptop

noticed the cheap usb bluetooth adapters on ebay ... how about a couple of them? reckon it would be another option?