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...

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...

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...

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 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...

I have two computers, one is running Windows 7 RC1, and the other is running Linux Mint. I have been attempting to connect the two computers with a crossover cable and then share files through it. The two computers detect each other on the network, but my Windows 7 computer doesn't have the...

I am using 2 PC's, one with Vista and one with XP. I use a crossover cable between the 2 PCs and have previously used ICS on the Vista machine when it had XP on it before. The Vista PC has an integrated intel nic and a pci 3com nic. I use one for my connection to my cable modem, the other for...