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What is the fastest way to connect two computers to transfer files? If someone could just put it in the RIGHT order from slowest to fastest.
1. 9 Pin Serial
2. USB 1.0
3. Cat5 Ethernet
4. USB 2.0
5. FireWireIs my order screwed up? Someone here at work said he was at CompUSA and the told him the 9 Pin Serial is the fastest. I thought by now that the serial connection would be the slowest. So if someone could just arrange the order correctly, maybe with speeds, and any tips, I'd appreciate it...
Thanks!!
Not sure how the other connectors are supposed to link, but I use ethernet at 100mbit, works superb for me.
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Try a google search for 9 pin serial speeds, but probably for speed/ease of setting up you are looking at a gigabit NIC card in each machine.
Firewire & USB2 are both about 400mb I think
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9 pin serial deals with kbps and about the 500 kbps range. See http://www.lavalink.com/index.php?id=227 for some relavent info.
USB1 up to 1.5 MBps
Cat5 up to 100MBps
Cat5E up to 1000MBps
USB2 at up to 480MBps
Firewire IEEE1394 up to 400MBps.
See http://www.digit-life.com/articles/usb20vsfirewire/ for a USB2 vs Firewire speed comparison.My Digital Video camera transfers faster using Firewire then using USB2.
In either of the above the interface would dictate that actual accomplished speeds of transfer.
I am unsure of what the CompUSA person was talking about.
HTH
Bryan
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Serial being the slowest, the USB, Ethernet being the quickest
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If you connect a USB cable to two machines, will it automatically recognize the two?
Also, with cat 5, I always forget, is a "patch" cable used when using a router, or when going from one machine to another?
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when going from one machine to another, you need a crossover network cable. a patch cable can only go through a hub or router first.
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120GB HDD
GeForce 4 w/ 128MB RAM
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Beleive it or not, runs HL2 like a dream!
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would the cable coming out of my cable modem and into my network card be a patch, or crossover? no router/hub present
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You have two computers directly connected with a cable (no hub or switch in between them) via a straight-through cable. If computer one transmits some data on pins 1 and 2, the cable would deliver it to pins 1 and 2 on computer two. However, computer 2 is only listening on pins 3 and 6, so it never receives the transmission.
By crossing the cable over, you are taking the transmit pairs, and plugging them to the receive slots on the other end. That way, when computer 1 transmits data on pins 1 and 2, they arrive on pins 3 and 6 when it gets to computer 2.
When a hub or switch is thrown in the mix, you don't need to cross the cables. This is because the hub/switch actually does the cross-over for you itself.
I hope this helps answer your question.
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FJB-
The first (long) statement really made sense...THANK YOU!!But the second one kinda through me off. Modem to Hub uses a Crossover?? I thought the Hub crosses it over?? I need to find a website that explains all of this in detail. I DO appreciate your help though.
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