John R Bartow
jbartow at winhaven.net
Fri Jul 19 16:05:05 CDT 2013
If your wireless and Ethernet router is one in the same then you should be able to share folders between everything regardless of connection type. That is unless you specifically blocked wireless access to your LAN, which is never the default on consumer models. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Ed Tesiny Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 12:29 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Transferring data between desktops (cross posted) Gary, yes I have a router and all the laptops access the internet over the network but wouldn't I need a wireless adapter for the old PC? On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Gary Kjos <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote: > Yes to the external drive being the easiest since you have it on hand.. > > But you don't have a router and a network set up for all your > computers etc to share your internet connection? > > I would normally just copy files across the network from one machine > to another. Windows has built in file transfer using that. > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Ed Tesiny <eptept at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I haven't done this in a long time. I know I can create a bunch of > > CDs > and > > move the data over but is there an easier way like cabling the two > together > > somehow. Duh, you always get a little smarter when you hit the send > key. I > > have a 500 Gb external hard drive and the hard drive on my old PC is > > 150 Gb, so would that be the way to go? > > MTIA, > > Ed > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > -- > Gary Kjos > garykjos at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com