I have a question now that I'm home!

[LOLyourFace]

I got to connect both my bro's and my PC to AT&T cable with a new bought DLink Di604 router. A couple of questions:

1. What's the best utility to share and access each other's computer? man.. we're using AIM to send each other files.. that's pretty sad.

2. Using AIM, my bro's sending me files @ 250 kilobytes per second, which is cable max bandwidth. There has to be a much faster way to send files between our PCs locally, without sending through AT&T and be bound by their bandwidth cap. Is there a such way?

Thank You.

 

[isekii]

is he in the same house ?

connected on a network ?

how did you connect to him via aim ?

I can't connect to my brother on aim so I just make files share between all computers on the network.. and get em that way

 

[Zugzwang152]

uh, right click folder, go to sharing, and then share this folder on the network...if you're running linux and not windows, you should be ashamed you dont know how to do file sharing

 

[Pilsnerpete]

Get help fast.:beer:

 

[LOLyourFace]

Originally posted by: isekii
is he in the same house ?

connected on a network ?

how did you connect to him via aim ?

I can't connect to my brother on aim so I just make files share between all computers on the network.. and get em that way

yes, in the same basement, PCs 10 ft away from each other.

just the regular "send file" method

 

[LOLyourFace]

i ran the Network Setup Wizard on both PCs (both run XP) and properly set up that we're connected to internet through a mutual hub.

But I can't see his PC on the network group, I see mine....

And on his PC, he can't even access the network group.. wtf?

 

[bunker]

Start reading and learn.

 

[Anubis]

the "get file" option in AIM transfers stuff at 10Meg a sec between my bro and me. thats the limit on the Cat5. Get the same speeds if we FTP to each other to get stuff. you should be getting that also