Data over Ethernet?

[Nathan5660]

Do forgive me for being something of a noob!!

 

In the near future *laughs agresivley* I want to be able to record gaming footage on my Ryzen based gaming rig, transfer the raw fottage from the gaming rig to the editing rig so the gaming rig is free to be used while the video is rendering. But I realised i wasnt sure how. I saw a small video tutorial on YouTube where this buy uses a cross over Ethernet cable between his laptop and desktop to transfer system files like games. 

 

Thats the sort of simplisity Id like, but to transfer video files, photos, raw footage and music. 

 

Currently I use a shared WiFi for internet connection (some 20 people all use the same WiFi to acess the internet) and theres no option for wired internet. 

 

In the video tutorail, the guy disabled WiFi on both systems before making both PCs discoverable on the LAN settings. which seemed confusing to me, seen as he is sharing over LAN and not WiFi. Would I need to disable WiFi everytime I wanted to transfer raw footage from one pc to the other? And would the Ehternet port on my MOBO do the job or do i need a networking card? 

 

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

4 minutes ago, Nathan5660 said:

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He probably disabled WiFi just to ensure Windows doesn't do anything funny like switch back to WiFi in the middle of a file transfer between your two systems. The Ethernet adapter on your motherboard will do the trick, this doesn't require anything special apart from the crossover cable. 

[Windows7ge]

Provided both machines support 10/100/1000, and both use WiFi by default you won't need a dedicated NIC.

 

A crossover cable shouldn't be needed thanks to Auto-MDIX. You can use any strait through cable. Sometimes the computers will setup IP's on their own sometimes you have to do that manually. From there you can create a homegroup, share a folder, or share a drive.

 

If both machines have an active link on WiFi & copper sometimes windows defaults to WiFi even though it's suppose to detect the faster link and use it. Here you can try editing the metric in the adapter settings to force it to use the physical connection. If this fails disabling the WiFi on one machine will force the traffic over the physical link.

[Crunchy Dragon]

6 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

this doesn't require anything special apart from the crossover cable. 

I read that newer ports will be able to automatically configure the signal from the normal cable to be received as a crossover cable, making the crossover cable not a complete necessity.

[Nathan5660]

Ahahaaa. Ok. 

 

So disable the WiFi on the editing rig (So theres no confusion for Windos) and use it JUST for editing/storage. Then copy the complete video back to the gaming rig to upload to YouTube...Im new to this bare with me

 

Is it as simple as plug both machines together, enable network sharing, set the IP adresses if its not done automatically and bang I can transfer?.....