Yup. Macs for years have had built-in crossover sensing so even if your
PC doesn't you'll still be fine connecting them directly together. As
Onathan noted, the Mac has a priority system for which route to take to
reach another machine so if they are both on the wireless network and
that is listed first in the Services table of the Network settings it
will still go via wireless even though you have a really fast
peer-to-peer wired connection. How fast depends on the slowest hardware
in the chain. From my MacBook Pro to my desktop mac I can transfer about
78MB/second so a GB takes only about 13-14 seconds. On my previous
MacBook the internal hard drive wasn't all that fast so I could only get
about 35MB/second. Before that I was using a 100Mb ethernet switch so
that slowed everything down to a limit of roughly 10MB/second. If your
PC doesn't have Gbit ethernet then you'll probably be limited to
10MB/second. Even if they both have Gbit ethernet you might hit
limitations on the speed of your PC.
All that said, once you're hooked up you can turn on Windows file
sharing on your Mac and then mount a network drive on your PC and copy
stuff right to your mac that way. Macs can connect to Windows file
servers but I found setting up a fileserver on Windows to be non-trivial
so it's easier to have your Mac be the server. Then from Windows you map
a netowrk drive using the usual
\\ip_address_of_your_mac\login_name_on_your_mac and then choose the
"Connect using a different user name" to enter the name and password
from your mac. At that point you can click Finish and you should have a
new drive letter on your PC which is really the desktop of your Mac.
After that let the file flinging begin.
CB
Jonathan Cohn wrote:
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.
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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
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