I believe you don't even need a cross over cable. Certainly, I have connected two Macs with a standard ethernet cable and they recognized this fact and one side auto-switched the send/transmit pair. I have never tried this with a windows machines, but have done it between 4-5 different Apple lapbooks over the last several years and a eMac. I am fairly sure I also connected a Tangerine ibook to a MacBookPro this way. I would make sure that your wireless is turned off, because sometimes the wireless will take precedence over this private lan configuration.
If you are going to purchase hardware, then get an external drive (firewire if both systems support it) and then after you finish the transfers, you will have a drive for "TimeMachine" which is quite handy. The cross-over cable will get lost and possibly confused in a desk once your transfer is complete. Best regaards, jon On 12/07/2010, Simon F <[email protected]> wrote: > A cross over cable takes away the need for a switch or a hub between two > machines. > You should be able to use a crossover cable so long as you setup your > network addressing correctly on each machine and also setup your sharing on > each machine so that you know where to copy the data across to the second > machine. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hypnotic Consulting > Sent: Sunday, 11 July 2010 9:20 a.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: transferring stuff between pc and mac > > Josh wrote: > I heard of something called a network crossover cable. I wonder if it would > be faster to buy one of those and transfer it that way? Because by doing it > the other way the 100 gigs of stuff will be transferring over > > > Yes, I'm not sure if they all do this or if it's a specific one that you can > get without having to config anything. It's about twenty bucks. > You should be able to find it with a google search. > Otherwise, I transfer over a gig or two and it takes about 10 to 20 mins. > Jorge > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
