Mick

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Serial port connection takes hours to transfer data. Is it possible to use the USB port? - What the easiest & quickest way?

Cheers

Mick

Beastie

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Buy a USB network kit and network the two computers. Should do the trick. Im in Norway and kit here is about 80 quid. Expect to pay a lot less in UK.
Beastie

XRS

If you don't fancy the idea of networking, you could always get a pendrive. It's basically a flashable rom that you can copy files onto through the USB port.

Mine is 128 meg, and I use it all the time between home and the office (and the laptop).

Mick

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Thanks guys!

What sort of price is the 'pendrive' ?

Cheers

Mick

XRS

Scan do the 128Mb pen drive for £87. They go up to 512 meg, but that one's pricey!

boxst

You could also just buy two cheap network cards: about £10 for a PC and £20-30 for a laptop and a cross-over cable.

howardb

You can buy a USB cable to link two PC's together with this purpose in mind. It might be what Beastie was referring to. Heres an example of what I mean:
http://www.starmount.co.uk/u_link1.htm

LeeMac

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I got a USB link cable from Time for £13 incl. software

DavidRB

A decent Ethernet setup is 10 times as fast though. Depends on how much data you're transferring and how long you are prepared to wait.

Mick

iTrader: (1)

Thanks again guys. The specific USB PC link cable looks to be what is needed here.

Many Thanks

Mick

Mick

iTrader: (1)

Actually laptop already has network card, so it presumably would just mean a network card for PC and a 'crossover-cable' - I am told that that method would give MUCH faster data transfer than even the USB port connection ????