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Gigabit Network Cabel?
Posted by Gerry Sowski on May 16th, 2005


Hello,

Is there something available to connect a Notebook and a Shuttle XPC
together with Gigabit Network Speeds?
Something like a "Laplink-Cable"?
Because the Notebook has no GigEthPort and the Shuttle are Full and i
need to transfer 20Gigabyte a few times a Day between them.

Posted by Fusion on May 18th, 2005


Unless thenotebook has a gigabit NIC, it will only go as fast as the
NIC in there. CAT6 cable is gigabit. If your Shuttle has gigabit and
notebook has 10/100, then your Shuttle will drop to 100 speed. 20
gigs should take no more than 5 min at most.

On Mon, 16 May 2005 13:25:19 +0200, Gerry Sowski <invalid@invalid.com>
wrote:


Posted by Curious George on May 19th, 2005


On Wed, 18 May 2005 09:47:11 -0400, Fusion <hey@yaright.com> wrote:

Gigabit is also intended for 5 & 5e. 6 is much better for Gigabit.
You _should_ use at least 5e for Gigabit.



Unfortunately both drives are _much_ slower than gigabit. Your laptop
drive will likely be the limiting factor in the speed of these
transfers - so much so that you would not likely be blown away by
gigabit over fast ethernet.

In that case Fast Ethernet, USB2.0 file transfer cable, or Firewire
are all options. If Gigabit is not possible I'd consider Firewire as
next in line (although have not done a direct PC to PC FW connection
so cannot advise further). USB 2.0 is more common though.


Posted by dg on May 25th, 2005



"Curious George" <cg@email.net> wrote in message
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I have done PC to PC firewire and it works JUST like ethernet. Easy as can
be for those of us who are familiar with basic networking. You assign IPs
to the two FW connections and the interface even shows up in XPs network
connections.

--Dan



Posted by daytripper on May 26th, 2005


On Wed, 25 May 2005 17:23:32 GMT, "dg" <dan_gus@hotmail.com> wrote:

And when it does the user will likely be asked if the two nics should be
bridged...

Posted by dg on May 27th, 2005


And yes you CAN bridge a nic to firewire, but that's it, bridge only. Its
too bad you can't route with XP, but the bridge is kind of cool.

--Dan

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Posted by Curious George on May 28th, 2005


On Wed, 25 May 2005 17:23:32 GMT, "dg" <dan_gus@hotmail.com> wrote:

no special cable required, right?


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