[pchelpers] Re: transfer data, please help
- From: "Jonathan Setcer" <jsetcer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 05:00:18 -0500
Break this down to where us "southerners" can understand it......... Do you
Brain-iacs really understand what a "cross-over" wire is doing?
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A "crossover wire" physically has the 'send/transmit' and 'receive' wires
crossed. i.e.: if the 2nd wire from the left is the send/transmit wire and
the 6th wire from the left is the receive wire on one end of the cable, then
on the OTHER end of the cable the 2nd wire will be the RECEIVE wire and the
6th wire will be the SEND/TRANSMIT wire.
This "crossing" of the send/transmit and receive wires in the wiring order
eliminates the need for a switch, or hub, etc. It allows the computers to
connect directly or "pier to pier".
If you take one of your network cables and hold the ends together,
side-by-side..... you will see the wire colors in each. If all the wire
colors are in the same order then it is a "straight cable".
If the second wire and the sixth wire are reversed then it is a "crossed
cable" or "cross-over cable".
The "cross-over cable" I am looking at here has this wiring order....
left end:
1. white/green
2. green
3. white/orange
4. blue
5.white/blue
6.orange
7. white/brown
8. brown
right end:
1.white/green
2.orange
3. white/orange
4.blue
5.white/blue
6.green
7.white/brown
8.brown
What the "left end" computer transmits on pin two (green wire) is received
by the "right end" computer on pin six (green wire). What the "right end"
computer transmits on pin two (orange wire) is received by the "left end"
computer on pin six (orange wire).
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Once you have the computers plugged together via this crossed cable the XP
machine SHOULD BE THE HOST.
IT REALLY IS SIMPLE TO MAKE THE TWO COMPUTERS LIVE AS ONE COMPUTER. Tell
the XP machine that you want to network it to a win98 machine. The XP
machine will prompt you to make a floppy disk that you will insert in the
win98 machine. The floppy that the XP machine makes will tell the win98
machine everything to do to make the two computers 'shake hands'.
Finally after some "right clicking and 'sharing' files" the remote computer
will look just like an extra hard drive. You will be able to copy files
with "copy" & "paste" ......................
J.
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