Crossover cable with Vista X64 and Win x86

[Dreamweavernoob]

Does anyone have any suggestions for the following situation.


2 PC's connected with a crossover cable. The pc's run on vista x64 and windows xp pro 32bit.


I seem to be struggling a fair bit.


cheers

[ViN86]

set a static IP on both machines.

[Dreamweavernoob]

i went to the TCP/IP settings and gave them a IP address (192.168.1.121 (otherpc was one higher)) and a subnet mask, but it still dosent work :(


cheers

[crainger]

maybe try the network wizard.

[Absolution]

Enable Internet connection sharing over the host PC.


Also, you don't need a crossover cable, any modern Ethernet adapter will be able to detect when your PC<->PC rather than PC<->Network.

[ViN86]

I assume you're trying to transfer files between the 2 pc's?

[Dreamweavernoob]

Thats right. as well as play a few lan games :)

Still no luck :(

[glObalist]

Cable long enough??

[Runningman]

Thats right. as well as play a few lan games :)

Still no luck :(

First things first, when you plug the cables in do you see a little green light come on when you plug in the Ethernet cable into the NIC?

[Runningman]

Cable long enough??
wise @ss...:D

[Dreamweavernoob]

First things first, when you plug the cables in do you see a little green light come on when you plug in the Ethernet cable into the NIC?


Yep. there are some lights that come one when plugged in.

[Runningman]

Yep. there are some lights that come one when plugged in.what color?

ok, lets start from the top, make sure that there is a green light on both nics( this could indicate a duplex mismatch). Now set diffrent Ip's on each interface, set one to 192.168.1.1 netmask of 255.255.255.252, the second should get an ip of 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.252 now go to a command prompt on each machine and type ping 127.0.0.1. If this works then type the opposing machines ip address when doing a ping.

please give all outputs and error messages, this could be useful in diagnosing and other problems that maybe accuring.

[Dreamweavernoob]

Okay thanks alot for the help, its finally running.

Only problem is that its picked up and installed my onboard network card as something else :| Its running fine, but its only picking it up as a 10/10 interface instead of a 100/1000. This means I have to settle for 100mbps.

Is there any real life speed difference between 100 and 1000? Im going to be transfering 69,000mb later on and would spend a little bit more time diagnosing if it will help with the time it will take.

cheers

[einstein_314]

Okay thanks alot for the help, its finally running.

Only problem is that its picked up and installed my onboard network card as something else :| Its running fine, but its only picking it up as a 10/10 interface instead of a 100/1000. This means I have to settle for 100mbps.

Is there any real life speed difference between 100 and 1000? Im going to be transfering 69,000mb later on and would spend a little bit more time diagnosing if it will help with the time it will take.

cheers
There's a significant difference between 100 mbps and 1000 mbps. 100 mbps maxes out at ~12 MB/s whereas I can get 50-60 MB/s on gigabit. It will definitely save you quite a while transferring 69GB.

[Dreamweavernoob]

There's a significant difference between 100 mbps and 1000 mbps. 100 mbps maxes out at ~12 MB/s whereas I can get 50-60 MB/s on gigabit. It will definitely save you quite a while transferring 69GB.

Well I couldn't get the bloody card to be detected as 1000 so bugger.


ah well.