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Joinung two machines by an ethernet cable
Simple words please. I am not that computer literate!
I have a new machine running W7 and an older one running Vista. I wish to join the two together for a short time to transfer fils from the old to the new. Told I could do this by joining them together with an Ethernet cable. Done this, and so what now?
And yes I know I could simple down load the stuff from the old machine on to a Flash drive, but I have only one monitor and swapping from one to another is a bit of a bind, especially when you are confined to a chair.
I have a new machine running W7 and an older one running Vista. I wish to join the two together for a short time to transfer fils from the old to the new. Told I could do this by joining them together with an Ethernet cable. Done this, and so what now?
And yes I know I could simple down load the stuff from the old machine on to a Flash drive, but I have only one monitor and swapping from one to another is a bit of a bind, especially when you are confined to a chair.
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You can't just join two computers together with a straight through Ethernet lead.
Ethernet leads are designed to connect a computer to a hub/switch/router. to connect two computers together directly you need a crossover Ethernet lead.
if you have a broadband router the easiest way is to connect both computers to the router, then they can be made to talk to each other.
Are you able to do this?
Ethernet leads are designed to connect a computer to a hub/switch/router. to connect two computers together directly you need a crossover Ethernet lead.
if you have a broadband router the easiest way is to connect both computers to the router, then they can be made to talk to each other.
Are you able to do this?
Examine the ends of the cable - you can see coloured core wires inside the clear plastic headshell - there are 8 cores, 4 solid colours, Green, Orange, Blue and Brown, and 4 where these colours are striped with white.
On a straight cable, the same colours will be in the same positions at both ends.
On a crossover, positions (counting from left) 1 2 3 and 6 (looking at the plug with the cable pointing downwards and the brown core in position 8 to the right) will be different.
The colours are difficult to see, but the easiest one to see is probably solid orange - on a crossover, it's 2 at one end, 6 at the other.
If you don't have a crossover, you can buy a converter for just over 1 pound: http://www.play.com/P...516256|cat:Networking
On a straight cable, the same colours will be in the same positions at both ends.
On a crossover, positions (counting from left) 1 2 3 and 6 (looking at the plug with the cable pointing downwards and the brown core in position 8 to the right) will be different.
The colours are difficult to see, but the easiest one to see is probably solid orange - on a crossover, it's 2 at one end, 6 at the other.
If you don't have a crossover, you can buy a converter for just over 1 pound: http://www.play.com/P...516256|cat:Networking
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