2 PC's crossover ethernet cable problem

pparks1 said:

alphanumeric said:

I'm not a networking expert by any means but I'm thinking if you didn't do any custom setup for the network cards connected to the cross over cable, it isn't doing anything and you may as well remove it.

Not necessarily true.

If the cable is installed, and both adapters are set to obtain a DHCP address automatically (which is default) Windows will pull an APIPA address like 169.254.x.x on each machine. Thus, the 2 machines together would be able to communicate over this network.

OK, I'll take your word on that. I've never tried to do it myself, but I've seen countless threads on various forums where people have tried and it seemed to be a major pain to get it working. I know enough about networking to get buy but I'm no IT pro so I'll pass to the more experienced.

Zepher said:

alphanumeric said:

I'm not a networking expert by any means but I'm thinking if you didn't do any custom setup for the network cards connected to the cross over cable, it isn't doing anything and you may as well remove it. If you want to confirm if it works or not disable your wireless cards in each PC and see if you can still share files etc. I don't think you will be able too. I'll understand if you don't want to mes with it though, now that its working.

Quick way to test it would be to copy a large file and see how fast it is transferring at.

Quick test was quick. Cable for sure.