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By: Chris Magnusson

Chris Magnusson — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:54:48 +0000

I bought a Belkin Vista transfer cable to move stuff between machines but it requires that Laplink PCsync be installed on each machine. Having the software in the cable itself and therefore not having to install anything is a definite benefit over the alternative.

By: Mitchell Oke

Mitchell Oke — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:14:49 +0000

With desktops built in the last few years they will definitely have both Ethernet and USB, and for the VAST majority of laptops this is true as well. While I wouldn’t say connecting two computers together with a crossover and transfering files is hard by any means, this would still be simpler. nice product!!

Oh and unfortunately Vista has removed TCP/IP from Firewire in Vista so no speedy transfers there anymore. I have only done it a couple of times but it was fast!!

Posted from my Treo 750.

By: Allen Hong

Allen Hong — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:19:41 +0000

Tyler, not everyone is knowledgeable with setting up a peer-to-peer. This product, while seeming a bit pricey to some, would be a great help to the the technology challenged. It is true plug and play and no technical knowhow required.

Also, renzokuken is right, not all computers have a NIC or firewire, but almost all computers come with USB ports.

By: Tyler Puckett

Tyler Puckett — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:11:09 +0000

I’d be willing to argue that Ethernet is more prevalent than USB in older machines. I know a ton of older laptops and even desktops that have 10 or 10/100 Ethernet jacks and no USB (or only USB 1.1) ports.

I guess I’m talking from the perspective of a Mac: All recent Macs have USB, Ethernet, and FireWire ports. With Macs all you have to do is plug them up with an Ethernet cable (crossover or straight-through) and it automatically sets up a LAN. Firewire works the same way. Macs even have a Target Disk Mode where you can connect both Macs with a FireWire cable, boot one into Target Disk Mode, and it will appear as a removable drive on the other machine.

By: renzokuken

renzokuken — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:37:22 +0000

Few computers have FireWire port and the FireWire cable alone is not very cheap either.
Many computer don’t have Ethernet port or NIC plugged, making an xover and setting up peer-to-peer takes at least 3 minutes if you are really in a hurry.
Almost all computer nowaday have usb port. Plug and play right away will make you feel geeky.
But i do think $60+ for that is too expensive. 40- will be a happy figure for both sides.

By: Tyler Puckett

Tyler Puckett — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:55:47 +0000

Could you not just buy (or make) a Crossover Ethernet cable? They’re definitely not $60 and all they require is setting up a peer-to-peer LAN between the two machines to copy files. Of course, that only supports 100Mbps (unless both machines has Gigabit Ethernet support), so it may be slower than USB 2.0 (though I doubt it, USB 2.0 has a LOT of overhead associated with it). Another alternative is connecting the two machines with a FireWire* cable, which in this case will act just like a Crossover ethernet cable, and will work at 400Mbps (which, in spite of it’s lower number, is faster than USB 2.0; there’s much less overhead with FireWire). *FireWire == IEEE 1394 == i.Link