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Question about direct cable connection

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Captain4

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Does anyone have experience with direct cable connections under w2k? I tried connecting my two computers with a parallel cable and it took hours to get it working. After I got it working, it connected at 4 Mbps, but when I started to copy a 400 MB directory, it said it was going to take 1000+ minutes. Any idea why it would be so slow?
 
Parallel port is really slow. I'm not sure of the speed, but I think it's like 8bits or something...even though it's bidirectional. If you're going to a Direct Connection, the best way to do it would be Ethernet, but the next best thing is USB or Firewire (if you have those ports). USB can do like 12Mbps...and Firewire can do it a lot faster. Hope this helps.
 
I tried doing ethernet as well, but it kept saying that the cable was disconnected. I may have been doing it wrong, though. However, I still don't see why the copying would be so slow if w2k rated the connection as 4 Mbps. Any more ideas?
 
If you're using Ethernet, make sure that you're using Crossover cable, not the regular Patch Cable. The pinouts are different if you look at them.
 
No matter what win2k thought it was using, parallel speed is around 112Kbps. And like the poster above said, if you are connecting two computers directly with ethernet you need a different cable than a regular ethernet cable. For about 10.00 you can buy a 4 port 10 Bast-T ethernet hub, and and another 2.00 or so for another cable, and you are set.
 
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