File Transfer with a Patch Cable

[JooK]

Excuse the clustering of weird events.. Everything is confusing me as to how crossover and patch cables work.

I just realized that I can transfer files from my Vista PC to my W7 Laptop with a regular Ethernet Patch cable.

However, is this the reason why it seems as though I can't retrieve files from my W7 Laptop? I get a server cannot connect issue.

I can, however, play Diablo 2 over a direct connect Lan on the same Vista + W7 setup.

I tried doing this with my friends cable on his W7 Latop and we couldn't connect at all, no transfer any files whatsoever! We'd both be running W7 and our network status's are "Unidentified Network"

We tried joining the same home group (I don't know if that even worked) and even tried a static IP, turned off all firewalls, but we still couldn't join a game in Diablo 2 TCP/IP mode.

Our computers are still connected directly through an ethernet patch cable. Like I said, I thought I needed to buy a crossover cable, but I went home and connected my patch cable with the Vista PC and W7 and was able to connect in Diablo right away, along with at least being able to transfer files one way.

I just can't explain why my Vista + W7 can connect this way but the W7 + W7 laptops won't...

Maybe it's his cable or his laptop drivers that are the issue.. Otherwise, what are we doing wrong?

 

[johnb35]

I bet if you get a crossover cable you will be able to communicate both ways. Maybe games themselves can communicate between 2 pc's with a regular cable but for file transfer, it must me crossover.

 

[JooK]

Heres the strange scenario.

I can connect my Vista 64x Tower and Windows 7 laptop with an ethernet Patch cable and connect with the game.

However, my friend and I try connecting our two Win 7 Laptops, then we cannot connect.

Both of our laptop settings are identical, and both have updated drivers.

 

[JooK]

*FIXED*

Last ditch effort, decided to uninstall both of our anti-virus softwares, even though they were both as "off" as possible.

Worked like a charm!

I'm inclined to think it was my friends packaged-Norton Internet Security stuff. Even though it was turned off to the max, it required an uninstallation program to get rid of it, and all of his other internet problems went away.