There is a special type of Category 5, or Cat 5, cable that can be used to connect two computers without the use of a router or switch. These cables are known as crossover cables and they have ...

I often find myself needing to connect two PCs when I’m away from my regular office network. Maybe I want to pass files to a friend without searching for a thumb drive. Or if I’m feeling generous, ...

One of most basic ways to share files and other resources with another computer in your office is via a direct cable connection. However, you cannot use a regular Ethernet cable -- called a ...

Intel is finally leveraging its Thunderbolt platform to give you a direct connection between two of your PCs. Thunderbolt Share, a new feature launching today through some Thunderbolt 4 and 5 PCs and ...

Connecting two computers using a crossover ethernet cable is the safest and easiest way of transferring files, pictures, videos, and music. This data transfer creates a network for sharing data, and ...

Hardware Secrets has released their article on how to connect two PCs using a USB-USB cable. In a day where more and more people have routers to create their own home networks, this method of ...

Thunderbolt ports enable high-speed connections between devices. But up until now, that’s mean you could use a Thunderbolt cable to connect storage, graphics cards, or docking stations to a PC. Soon ...

I’ve heard that it is possible to connect two PCs together using a crossover cable, but I haven’t been able to do so. I’d like these machines to be able to share my dial-up Internet connection, along ...

Intel on Wednesday announced a new Thunderbolt feature called Thunderbolt Share, which allows users to connect one PC directly to another to share files or to do screen sharing to control one computer ...