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Best way to transfer files from desktop to laptop

post #1 of 30
12/7/05 at 8:56pm
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I just got my 9300 in and id like to transfer a lot of files to it from my desktop. Ive got a wireless router, but signal strength is low, and it looses connection on file transfers. I bought a CAT5 cable specially for computer 2 cocmputer connections in hopes to transfer my files quickly.
Is there any special software that i need to use this cable? How do i transfer my files now?

dan
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post #2 of 30
12/7/05 at 9:07pm
http://www.razertech.com/edge/hardwa.../crossover.htm

Check this out......you'll also need to make sure that cable is a crossover cable, not a straight-through.
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post #3 of 30
12/7/05 at 9:25pm
I think the NICs in dell laptops do the crossing automatically for you if you plug in a straight-through cable and need cross-over functionality. That's been the experience on my 600m.
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post #4 of 30
12/7/05 at 9:35pm
I heard this is a special feature on the Broadcom NIC.
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post #5 of 30
12/7/05 at 10:24pm
that's way cool.
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post #6 of 30
12/8/05 at 12:36pm
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thanks!
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post #7 of 30
12/8/05 at 1:55pm
I use synchorize method.. the first time I do it with a CAT5 cable but all the others, I use wireless..

this is done from my 6000d and my tablet.
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post #8 of 30
12/8/05 at 2:40pm
fastest, and most efficient way is to use a cat5 cable. but be warned, you will probably have to change the IP on both computers to 192.168.0.2, and x.x.x.3 this always works for me.

really fast too with a gigabit connection (:
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post #9 of 30
12/8/05 at 5:46pm
^ This is seems to be unnecessary on window's XP machines. If there is not DHCP on the network and they don't have static IPs assigned, xp's networking protocol (not sure if this is part of TCP/IP) assignes something called Automatic Private IP address and both computers can see eachother.
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post #10 of 30
12/8/05 at 7:06pm
if you have a wireless router, i'm presuming it has LAN ports in the back. in which case, just connect regular cat5 cable to it from the lappie and the desktop and do the file transfer that way.

or, you could buy a crossover cable so you don't need two nic's on either the desktop or lappie.

or, if you have firewire on both, you could just connect both via firewire and trasnfer that way.

or, if you could burn files to dvd or cd to transfer.

if you are getting slow wireless router speeds, try repositioning the router up high away from other electronic stuff.
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post #11 of 30
12/8/05 at 7:29pm
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Originally Posted by mich43L
^ This is seems to be unnecessary on window's XP machines. If there is not DHCP on the network and they don't have static IPs assigned, xp's networking protocol (not sure if this is part of TCP/IP) assignes something called Automatic Private IP address and both computers can see eachother.

mine required it no matter what....computer to computer with a cat5 crossover. no firewalls on. both had XP, and were initially set to auto everything. xp is funny sometimes. after it was changed i got insane speeds though.
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post #12 of 30
12/9/05 at 1:01am
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when i try to do the autoconnect it just sits there "detecting" forever.. doesnt seem to be doing anything. wtf?
i tried changing the IP addresses manualy, i got it to work once but it was slow as hell, then 2nd time it didnt work and its currently not working...

any suggestions?
any good programs for this?

dan
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post #13 of 30
12/9/05 at 2:09am
go into both the systems control panel and click system. click on each NIC and make sure its set to full duplex. and make sure your NIC drivers are upto date!
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post #14 of 30
12/9/05 at 2:04pm
All I did for mine is connect them with a regular Cat5 cable and set the desktop as the host for internet connection sharing and it works fine, the laptop can connect to the internet and swap files with each other, you'll just need file and print sharing turned on. Even with zone alarm on I can swap files and play games on the lan but for some reason the laptop cannot access the internet with ZA on and I've setup the trusted zones and all that.
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post #15 of 30
12/9/05 at 3:33pm
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how do you make the desktop the host for file sharing?
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post #16 of 30
12/9/05 at 4:15pm
Ha I have 2 aim screen names and I just zipped one big folder full of everything I wanted and sent it across my network through aim.
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post #17 of 30
12/9/05 at 5:26pm
This is a fascinating topic to me. I've never been able to figure out how to do this via an ethernet cable. I mistakenly assumed that if you connected both computers via an ethernet cable that they would show up on each other's network connections. Is there a simple "How To" guide for this.

I'm thinking it may be just as easy for me to do this via a USB travel drive.

This may be a stupid question, but how come you can connect a hard drive to any pc via usb and it will show up as a drive that you can transfer files back and forth, but you can't do that with 2 pcs?
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post #18 of 30
12/9/05 at 6:15pm
start/control panel/ and I think its just done with the network setup wizard, if that dosnt work go to control panel/network connections and click "Set up a home or small office network" I dont remember exactly how I did it but it was with those 2 options.... if that dosnt work let me know, I remember I also had to manually set the IP address on the laptop to get it to work.

my desktop also has 2 network cards, its an Asus AN78X-D, one of the nics if not both are built in. And when I did mine I might have had to do a search on the internet for "internet connection sharing" for the manual IP settings, dont remember how I did it even though it was just 3 weeks ago.

I've got a hub with 4 ports but I couldnt get it to work that way, it appears my cable modem only gives out 2 IP addresses and I've got a second computer upstairs already so when I attached the laptop to the hub it did nothing.
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post #19 of 30
12/10/05 at 1:41pm
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Originally Posted by jacksonian
This is a fascinating topic to me. I've never been able to figure out how to do this via an ethernet cable. I mistakenly assumed that if you connected both computers via an ethernet cable that they would show up on each other's network connections. Is there a simple "How To" guide for this.

I'm thinking it may be just as easy for me to do this via a USB travel drive.

This may be a stupid question, but how come you can connect a hard drive to any pc via usb and it will show up as a drive that you can transfer files back and forth, but you can't do that with 2 pcs?
you can, it just takes the right cabling. ethernet you need a crossover cable, essentially making two wires into one so you do not need an extra nic card. it's all about flow control, which the standard ethernet cable cannot do.
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post #20 of 30
12/10/05 at 1:42pm
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Originally Posted by red97vette
when i try to do the autoconnect it just sits there "detecting" forever.. doesnt seem to be doing anything. wtf?
i tried changing the IP addresses manualy, i got it to work once but it was slow as hell, then 2nd time it didnt work and its currently not working...

any suggestions?
any good programs for this?

dan
are you sure you got the correct cable?
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