Hi, new here and hope that someone can help me. I have a network at home connected to Cable through a Netgear WGT624 Router, have 4 computers hooked up to it. All this computers use built in 100 MBs NIC's. Also have a file server and my workstation with additional Gigabit cards, so they have 2 cards each. Want to use this cards so that I can send Files fast between the 2 computers, how would I do this. Thanks Micael

A crossover cable connected NIC to NIC between the two machines in question would do the trick.

are they making gigabit copper crossovers? I guess you can google it and make your own. Still have the issue of how do you tell the OS which path to use for what. In other words how is the OS going to say use X path for internet and Y path for pc to pc file xfer. Normally with a router you can weigh a path by increasing the metric. So you would add weight to the 10/100mbps netgear connection and not the gigabit connection. This would make it the preferred route. I don't know of any sophistication like this in XP. Sure would be interesting to enable ics on each pc and see what kind of round robin routing you could do. This is where spanning tree would come in to prevent a circlar loop.