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JonnyBoy:
I've done the piggyback concept before, it would just be a pain in my current situation because of how everything is mounted. I may be forced to go that route.

I just wanted something non-evasive.

So if I have two Ethernet cables and plug them both into the wireless router, I can transfer data? What would I have to configure?

dpz147:
Ditto on the slaved drive.  Transferring 20 gig wireless would take forever. To answer your original question they do sell a USB cable, or at least they used to.  I can't imagine anyone would by them any more since we have 10/100/1000 ethernet networks.

Best options:
1) Slave the drive to the original system
...or next best...
2) Use your router and Cat5 cable to both PCs.  Routers are pretty much plug and play these days if everything is set up on DHCP.  You would just need to share the wanted files.

A backup to a removeable media like DVD is a good idea as well even though you will have an exact copy on 2 machines already.

dpz147:
Just follow the basic setup instructions on your router, connect the cables, ensure that your PCs are set to DHCP (which they should have been out of the box unless you changed them), right click on the files to tranfer and click on "Sharing and security", click "Share this folder".  Now on the target PC the file should show up in "My Network Places".  Just copy and paste.

That should pretty much do it.  Good luck!  :)

bionicbadger:

--- Quote from: JonnyBoy on May 01, 2006, 07:19:36 am ---
Do they make double ended USB cables for data transfer?

What do you think? Any other ideas.

--- End quote ---

Why USB?
They make and ethernet cable called a "crossover" cable (or you can make one yourself), just plug that into the network port on each machine and you don't need a router.

JonnyBoy:
Eh, just tossing ideas around.

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