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If you are transferring from your laptop to an external drive, then you are limited to whatever connections your external drive has. Unfortunately, most external drives come with USB2 connector. Some have eSATA, and that would be your top choice. Some have LAN connection as well, then you can hook such a drive to your router and transfer the files through the network. But if your drive only has USB2, then unfortunately there is not much you can do (unless you want to rip the enclosure apart, but I guess you don't want to do that).
If you are transferring files between two computers, then connecting them with a network is easier than establishing a direct connection via either USB or eSATA (at the very least, you need special cables to do that). What you want to do is simply hook up both computers to a router, then run an ftp server on one of them and transfer files by using ftp. If that's your case - transfer files between computers - and you need help setting up the ftp connection, please let us know.