Transferring files from your laptop to a desktop PC is simple – usually. If you are visiting a customer's or vendor's site, the IT staff will usually help you connect to their network and transfer ...

I needed to get some files onto a laptop without an optical drive today, so I connected it to my iBook, turned on OSX's Internet Connection Sharing and FTP, put the CD in the iBook's drive, and copied ...

What is a crossover cable used for? The fastest way to connect PCs together, to a router or central switch, is through Ethernet cabling, a standard that’s been in networking installation for years.

Ethernet cables come in two types: straight through and crossover. Crossover cables flip the transmit and receive wire pairs from one end to the next, so that the transmissions channel on one end ...

I want to hook up my own XP PC to my work-supplied Win2K PC using a cat5 ethernet crossover cable. I would ideally like to use TCP/IP (but filesharing will do).<BR><BR>Does it make any difference if ...

I’m an English teacher at the local high school and have managed to scrounge up a few extra computers for use in my classroom. All of the computers are running Windows XP, and one computer in the ...