New computer - online setup and file transfer

[Sansha]

Aeiou everyone.

So I just got my whole new PC today, and I have two queries that the techies that built it have thus been unable(or unwilling) to provide answers to.

1. File transfer
Now according to my new PC, I can do an Easy Transfer thing involving a special USB cable. Easy enough, I suppose, except I don't have one, and am unwilling to pay for one. I do, however, have a crossover Ethernet cable that came with the new system.
How can I implement this? Is it as easy as plug-and-go?

2. Intertubes
Simply, I'd like to know how I can get aboard yonder Internets on the new PC. I'm coming to you live from my old system using a monitor, keyboard and mouse I found in the dumpster a block over.
Seriously.
So, an online network connection - what do?

I'll check this thread in the morning. I need to get some sleep.

Thanks Escapists!

 

[Thee Prisoner]

You can use the ethernet cable to transfer your files. Plug in the cable to both computers. Then go into your network settings.

the Prisoner

 

[tharglet]

Yeah, just wire up the 2 machines via the ethernet cable and copy from one machine to the other.
Should be pretty much a case of plug 'em together, share the drive, copy the files across.
If you want more precise instructions, there's google or you can list what operating systems (e.g. Windows 7, Windows XP) are running on the machines and I or some other forum goer may be able to help you.

Another thing you could do is look at putting the old harddrive in the new machine. Also guides on the intertubes for this.


As for the internet - er, you should be able to plug your new system up same as your old one (unless you're on dialup internet still, in which case you will most likely have to put the modem into your new machine, cos they don't come with dialup modems anymore). If you want both on the internet, you will need to look into buying a router.

 

[Hairetos]

Yeah, just wire up the 2 machines via the ethernet cable and copy from one machine to the other.
Should be pretty much a case of plug 'em together, share the drive, copy the files across.
If you want more precise instructions, there's google or you can list what operating systems (e.g. Windows 7, Windows XP) are running on the machines and I or some other forum goer may be able to help you.

Another thing you could do is look at putting the old harddrive in the new machine. Also guides on the intertubes for this.


As for the internet - er, you should be able to plug your new system up same as your old one (unless you're on dialup internet still, in which case you will most likely have to put the modem into your new machine, cos they don't come with dialup modems anymore). If you want both on the internet, you will need to look into buying a router.

I never had success just linking two computers together via ethernet cable. I always needed a modem in between to detect the connection

 

[MrTub]

Yeah, just wire up the 2 machines via the ethernet cable and copy from one machine to the other.
Should be pretty much a case of plug 'em together, share the drive, copy the files across.
If you want more precise instructions, there's google or you can list what operating systems (e.g. Windows 7, Windows XP) are running on the machines and I or some other forum goer may be able to help you.

Another thing you could do is look at putting the old harddrive in the new machine. Also guides on the intertubes for this.


As for the internet - er, you should be able to plug your new system up same as your old one (unless you're on dialup internet still, in which case you will most likely have to put the modem into your new machine, cos they don't come with dialup modems anymore). If you want both on the internet, you will need to look into buying a router.

I never had success just linking two computers together via ethernet cable. I always needed a modem in between to detect the connection

If I recall right you need a special ethernet cable for to link two computers directly (without a modem/router)

 

[tharglet]

If I recall right you need a special ethernet cable for to link two computers directly (without a modem/router)

I never had success just linking two computers together via ethernet cable. I always needed a modem in between to detect the connection

Yeah, you need what's known as a "crossover" cable (if you're interested, the cable differs in the way the ends are wired up - straight cables have the same configuration to the pins at the end, but in crossovers, the pins are wired differently on both ends). Never had any issues myself, then again I know what I'm doing ¬¬. As long as the cable is of the right type, the PCs should see each other.

 

[Sansha]

If I recall right you need a special ethernet cable for to link two computers directly (without a modem/router)

I never had success just linking two computers together via ethernet cable. I always needed a modem in between to detect the connection

Yeah, you need what's known as a "crossover" cable (if you're interested, the cable differs in the way the ends are wired up - straight cables have the same configuration to the pins at the end, but in crossovers, the pins are wired differently on both ends). Never had any issues myself, then again I know what I'm doing ¬¬. As long as the cable is of the right type, the PCs should see each other.

They're seeing each other just fine, but actually opening folders for sharing with one another is like getting a college professor to give a lecture to a bucket of retarded pies.

My XP computer completely refuses to co-operate.

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

If one is Windows XP and the other is Windows 7 you'll have a few problems with finding each other.

Next step is to "Enable File Sharing" for the folders you want to share and send. Plenty of step by step guides for it on the net.

 

[tharglet]

They're seeing each other just fine, but actually opening folders for sharing with one another is like getting a college professor to give a lecture to a bucket of retarded pies.

My XP computer completely refuses to co-operate.

Most people's problems stem from trying to use the networking folders that windows "helpfully" provides. I always access the machine by using the hostname or IP... e.g. in the location bar I'll type "\\thor" if the machine is called thor.

Tho on the newer versions it does like you to share under your current user (rather than fully public) but that should be just a case of slapping in your credentials for the other machine.