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Harry Potter:
Bah. Don't listen to them.

DVDs.  :laugh2:

Get a 720K formatted DOS floppy disk, and just keep transferring the stuff piece by piece. It's great exercise running back and forth 30 thousand times.  ;D
Havok:

--- Quote from: Harry Potter on May 01, 2006, 03:24:53 pm ---Bah. Don't listen to them.

DVDs.  :laugh2:

Get a 720K formatted DOS floppy disk, and just keep transferring the stuff piece by piece. It's great exercise running back and forth 30 thousand times.  ;D

--- End quote ---

Make sure to use 5 1/4" disks - they're more reliable...
dpz147:

--- Quote from: _Iz- on May 01, 2006, 03:10:39 pm ---Your e-mail most likely doesn't work behind the router due to the configuration in your e-mail client.

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I can't speak for how it works in Canada, but in the US you just set the pop and smtp servers in your email client the same as you would without a router.  I've never run into an ISP around here that requires any config changes when installing a router.

Even if the router solution isn't the best one for you for this data transfer, it might be a good idea to install it anyway due to the fact that it is a hardware firewall and will protect you from internet bad guys.  But, network security is a whole other thread...
dpz147:

--- Quote from: Havok on May 01, 2006, 03:38:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: Harry Potter on May 01, 2006, 03:24:53 pm ---Bah. Don't listen to them.

DVDs.  :laugh2:

Get a 720K formatted DOS floppy disk, and just keep transferring the stuff piece by piece. It's great exercise running back and forth 30 thousand times.  ;D

--- End quote ---

Make sure to 5 1/4" disks - they're more reliable...

--- End quote ---

I'm sure there would be some way to attach an old tape player from a c64.  Imagine actually being able to hear your data transferring!!!

I know you're a young buck, so you may need to look some of these up and look at the capacity/transfer rate to fully appreciate the joke.  :)
PCtech:

--- Quote from: _Iz- on May 01, 2006, 03:10:39 pm ---Your e-mail most likely doesn't work behind the router due to the configuration in your e-mail client. Most isp's allow for "simple" e-mail server config when directly connected to the internet - you just use "mail" as the server name. When you connect through a router that generally won't work and you have to supply the full, actual server name. Here in Canada on shaw cable an example would be:
simple server config  = shawmail
full server config = shawmail.ok.shawcable.net


You could also use a crossover network cable to directly connect the network cards on each computer and transfer files.

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--- Quote from: dpz147 on May 01, 2006, 03:43:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: _Iz- on May 01, 2006, 03:10:39 pm ---Your e-mail most likely doesn't work behind the router due to the configuration in your e-mail client.

--- End quote ---

I can't speak for how it works in Canada, but in the US you just set the pop and smtp servers in your email client the same as you would without a router.  I've never run into an ISP around here that requires any config changes when installing a router.

Even if the router solution isn't the best one for you for this data transfer, it might be a good idea to install it anyway due to the fact that it is a hardware firewall and will protect you from internet bad guys.  But, network security is a whole other thread...

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Unless I missed it, I don't think he's trying to configure e-mail.  He is trying NOT to get on the internet (i assume to avoid spyware/virus problems)...but I do like the idea of the crossover cable....probably the easiest idea yet.
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