it's called a cross-over cable -- it's basically a standard ethernet cable with the wire pairs flipped on one end (looks the same on the outside). with that setup you'd connect the ethernet port on one computer directly to the ethernet port on the other computer via this cable.
if either of the computers has a gigabit port then you can use anytype of ethernet cable as the "cross-over" will happen at the software level
If you already have the regular CAT5 cables, then get either a router to share the broadband connection and then share files or get a switch to share with. The switch will not allow you to share the broadband connection however.
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NemesisDB
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it's called a cross-over cable -- it's basically a standard ethernet cable with the wire pairs flipped on one end (looks the same on the outside). with that setup you'd connect the ethernet port on one computer directly to the ethernet port on the other computer via this cable.
if either of the computers has a gigabit port then you can use anytype of ethernet cable as the "cross-over" will happen at the software level
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If you already have the regular CAT5 cables, then get either a router to share the broadband connection and then share files or get a switch to share with. The switch will not allow you to share the broadband connection however.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/howto/
http://www.theeldergeek.com/quick_guide_to_simple_file_sharing.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/default.mspx