crossover cable

I am trying to make a direct connection to a XP machine using a cable. No switch or router involved. Can it be done? There are 3 cables joined by fem/fem connectors and one of the cables is a crossover. In my mind as long as there is a crossover in the mix then the transmit + and - are...

Hi, I wonder if it is possible to connect two PC's using a cross-over TP cable and have both of them share one USB broadband modem and, if yes, how to go about it. Thank you. Link Removed

Hi guys Im looking for a method where i can install software such as AV's / AM's from my pc to another. Scenario A : A pc has no antivirus on plus no software like MBAM, Instead of redownloading the installer again or transfering them on a USB stick + updates, I want to install the software...

Hi All seems am missing something here,, my host pc is connected wirelessly via a dlink air plus usb adapter to my home wireless router and i am trying to connect another pc in my home office via a Ethernet cross over cable to share the internet connection i have changed the settings to share...

Dear experts, I have a laptop and desktop both running win7, both connected via wifi to the same router which is two floors down. I would like to access the laptop from desktop via remote desktop. It works fine but is a bit slow. My question is: Can I connect the laptop and desktop via a...

All, please help if you can, I want to connect a second laptop to the Internet but have one only USB wireless device, do I have to use a cross over cable to link the 2 PC's together or is there a better way. Appreciate any advice. Thanks Garry

Alrigth Guys I am having major problems at the moment. I have been trying for hours but I can not seem to figure out what to do.. I have recently gone out and brought a laptop that is running Windows 7 Home on it and I would like to connect it to my Pc which is running Windows 7 Ultimate on...

OK, IT'S A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION (MAYBE i'm kidding)... my laptop (64 bit win7) had a little oopsie in the hard drive area, that is... "short DST". it just won't boot up, no contents were lost. but i need a lot of it back... BAD! i'm thinking of connecting the 2 with a USB cable (this...

Ok I am just about going out of my mind with this one. I have a DNS 323 NAS device connected directly to my laptop with static IP's and a crossover cable (removed it from my network for troubleshooting simplicity). I am running Windows 7 Pro. I can access the web interface of this device, ping...

hi..! i have internet connection on my pc (working) i hav 2 Ethernet adapters on my pc. one for internet. other one for laptop. both connected using cross cable. file shearing working, remote desktop also working, but internet not working on laptop.. these are settings : setings on my pc...

I have 2 win7 PC's and need to network them for file sharing. I did have them networked through my router with everything working great. I am now without broadband and attempted to network them using a gigabit switch, both of them now see a public network but not each other directly. Question...

Okay, I recently upgraded to Windows 7 from XP, (Completely wiped and reinstalled) I'm having a problem connecting two PCs with a crossover cable. They're in the same domain, and they're in the same homegroup. My setup is like this: My more powerful system is connected via straighthrough cable...

Hi all, my 1st post here. :) I'm trying to connect 2 PCs running win7 using a crosscable. They're both on the 64-bit version currently, but I'll be shifting to 32-bit soon. I've connected a cat-6 crosscable to the onboard NICs on both PCs. One has an asus M3A78-EM board, and the other is an...

I have two PC connected using a CROSSOVER Ethernet cable (Cat5E) without a Hub , Switch or Router. first PC connected to internet through D-Link DSL-200 USB ADSL WAN Modem . First PC network adapters: 1-Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0) 2-D-Link DSL-200 USB...

Hi, So I bought a crossover cable just to connect two laptops. Like, a network. Mine is running on windows 7 and the other laptop is running on Vista. So I configured both laptops to be in the same workgroup (left the homegroup in win7) and configured both NIC's to have an IP in the same class...

Hi all. I am trying to connect my notebook - HP Compaq 6730s to my desktop. I have ASUS Striker 2 Formula motherboard, nVidia 780i SLI chipset, 2 network adapters, and windows XP Pro SP3, x86 Edition. On my notebook I haveWindows 7 Ultimate RC 7100 Build. I couldn't find Win7 drivers for...

Hi there, i have been struggling for quite a while now trying to connect 2 WIN7 machines via a normal crossover network cable. All other posts etc that i have read for help, seems useless as i can not even change my network from public to home. Because of this i can not create a homegroup to...

As title. I have two computers which is connected with cross over cable. Before I activate ICS to share internet connection, I managed to make two computers in a homegroup where they can share files and printer etc. After that, I bridged my 2 LAN cards, and activate the ICS. In my bridges LAN...

I wanted to do a p2p connection to my sister pc in the other room which is around 10m just using the cross cable without using hub ... Is this length gonna cause a lot of problem because I heard that if it's longer than 5m then the packet loss will be a lot ... Anyone ?

I started to use Windows 7 just last week, before that I had been using XP Pro for years, last year I bought Sarotech multimedia hdd enclosure, I shared some folder in windows to use for playing audio and video with the Sarotech player using crossover lan cable whitout any problems. Since I...