If both your PC and laptop have LAN port, you can connect them with a LAN wire. Make sure you don't use a firewall and if you do, deactivate it.
I would suggest, go for a Hub. it's better than using a crossover cable because in a crossover cable the packets are sent and received from both the computers on the same cable and data can be lost. Whereas if we use a hub/switch/router it prevents data loss and the communication is faster.
Cost considerations led to the widespread adoption of 10Base2 (ThinNet) Ethernet using RG-58 cabling connected to a BNC connector on the back of the network adapter. In the case of both 10Base5 and 10Base2 Ethernet, you can assume that given the manner in which the network adapters are attached to the network, the network adapters are "daisy chained" with no intermediary devices required (for example, drop cables to a backbone on ThickNet or T-connectors on ThinNet). For this reason, a network adapter with AUI/DIX or BNC connectors must implement collision detection to be in compliance with the Ethernet 802.3 standard specifications.
Cost considerations also led to the even wider adoption of 10BaseT Ethernet using category 3 (Cat3) unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable connected to hubs. The use of hubs no longer made it a requirement that each network adapter do collision detection as that function is required in the hub and "daisy chaining" one network adapter to another longer needed to be a consideration in network adapter design. Even though the 10BaseT addendum to the Ethernet 802.3 standard specifications recommends that collision detection be implemented in the network adapter, it is not a requirement for manufactures of a network adapter to follow this recommendation to bring, for example, a 10BaseT network adapter in compliance with the Ethernet 802.3 standard specifications.
In some cases, the use of crossover cables can enhance the throughput of the network, and is ideally suited for router-to-router connections where the network adapter is in use and both ends of the segment are full-duplex.How do i connect my xp home comp. to my xp pro laptop?
share the content on the source computer and get a Cross Over cable and hook it to the LAN ports. other wise, get a USB Data Transfer cable from radio shack and use that.
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Get a crossover cable and hook it from one NIC to the other. This is the fastest possible and the most efficient for data transfer.
Ignore what akgvipul is saying about data loss over crossover cable. There are a lot of switches out there that alow you to use either straight or x-over and they work absolutely the same. Straight and x-over cables are both CAT-5 the difference is at the connector - pins are in different positions. See the link a sources for a diagram. Use it make your own cable.
And I hope you have GIGABIT ethernet NICs on both machines - you'd be zooming with a x-over cable.
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