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 ...

A: I don’t know how to put this, William, other than to say that you are trying to solve a problem that you seem to have created yourself. In a way, I can understand your reluctance to use a cloud ...

All computers connected to networks have different IP addresses. This is how networks can verify where particular messages should go. In order to connect different computers, you need to access one ...

I have two Windows XP notebooks. Here is what I would like to do: Connect the secondary notebook via a USB cable and have it emulate a USB storage device. <BR><BR>The reason I want to do this is ...

Unfortunately, I can't edit my previous topic.<BR><BR>So what I want to do is connect two laptops through their modems so I can transfer files from one to the other. Is this possible, and would it ...