One of most basic ways to share files and other resources with another computer in your office is via a direct cable connection. However, you cannot use a regular Ethernet cable -- called a ...

Ethernet cables come in two types: straight through and crossover. Crossover cables flip the transmit and receive wire pairs from one end to the next, so that the transmissions channel on one end ...

I often find myself needing to connect two PCs when I’m away from my regular office network. Maybe I want to pass files to a friend without searching for a thumb drive. Or if I’m feeling generous, ...

I needed to get some files onto a laptop without an optical drive today, so I connected it to my iBook, turned on OSX's Internet Connection Sharing and FTP, put the CD in the iBook's drive, and copied ...

A network card may have several types of connectors, with the most common being an RJ45 connector and a BNC connector (coaxial cable). In this article, we talk about the RJ45 ethernet crossover cable, ...

My brother dropped by the other day and I was showing him my little two computer network. "Oh, did you buy a little hub?", says he. "Why no, I'm just using a crossover cable," relplies I. "Crossover ...

You have probably heard that a two-node LAN can be configured by stringing a crossover cable between the network ports on two systems. Not only is this true, but it’s not all that hard to do provided ...