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CP Technologies? Here comes rebate trap again. It is a shitty company. They make money through rebates.

I don't care about the price of one of these... is there any additional software to buy?

I need to transfer over all my music from my old, Pentium 4 baconased system to my new Vista.

I have been sending myself files with the two computers on at the same time over instant messenger!

There has to be an easier way...


Please advise.

If you are moving just a few gigs, get a 4GB usb drive for around $20 and you can move them really fast and you end up with a useful drive when you are done. Or you can purchase a porable HD, I think I saw a 120GB for $80.

If you are moving a lot of data and the two computers are relatively close, use a cross-over CAT5 cable to transfer the files. It'll be relatively fast considering you just select all of your files you want to move at a time and just wait it out. I think it took over 2 hours to transfer around 20GB.

If you want, you can also upload your files to a free online storage such as xdrive then logon and download with you other computer but my experieince with these services are terrible. I get disconnects when uploading or downloading and have to start over again. Maybe there are better ones or you won't have the same problems I had.

Never tried out the Easy Transfer feature so it may be better, up to you.

Use a Cat 6 cable, same as a Cat 5 cross over, but faster and you won't accidentally get the wrong cable.

Cat 6 and Cat 5 cross over allow a direct peer to peer connection without a routing. The cost is only slightly more than a standard Cat 5 patch cable.

The speed of data transfer will be much faster with a short Cat 6 than with a USB transfer cable. You can also use a Cat 6 or Cat 5 cross over for standard uses

I would connect these CAT 5/6 cables to each computer's ethernet cards?

Thanks for the input guys.
The music, my main concern is about 4,000 songs or 20GB. So I might go with the 4 GIG USB drive. Not sure.

Cat 6 and 5e are only needed for Gigabit links. Chances are really good that the P4 does not have a Gigabit adapter. To be uselessly pedantic, Cat 6 is 'slower' than Cat 5, as a greater number of twists per inch means a greater wire length for the same cable length.

Also of note, a Gigabit crossover cable is wired differently than a 10/100 crossover, since it uses all 4 pairs. Then again, many Gigabit adapters use AutoMDX, making a crossover cable needless.

Soooo what about cats? If I buy this, will I get cats?

has anyone ever gotten their rebate from this company?

I posted this a long time ago but it may be worth while to post it again. I know this would have helped me greatly when I first had to transfer all of my data over to a new computer.

Get a short crossover cat5 cable and set your connection settings on XP to autodetect. Check your "my computer" properties and write down the names of your computers. Connect the computers with the crossover cable and run "ipconfig" in your dos prompt on both connected computers to make sure you get an IP address assigned. Test it with the "ping" command and make sure there is a reply. Then in the "run" command, type "\\computer name" and you should be able to connect to the second computer.