can you network 2 comps with just a parallel cable?

[Guest we_kill_soapscum]

i have this parallel cable. wouldnt work with my ZIP to my laptop. figured mabye cause it was a parallel and not a SCSI (even tho both ends fit...)

 

so i tried just hooking my laptop to my cpu wtih a parallel and messing with trying to set up a windows network, tried making both the host, neither setup work.

 

is this possible?

 

thanks

[cruising for burgers]

i think itz possible!!!

i´ve played doom liek dat 10 years ago!!!

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yeah you can, look in my network places, you'll be able to create a host/slave parallel connection.

 

it's going to be dog slow and crap, though. unless it's just a once off thing get yourself either a crossover cable or a usb networking cable.

 

actually, if both machines have firewire, you just need a standard firewire cable - it's quite quick.

[Guest iep]

should work (just try it!) but you're better off by making/buying a short network cable :grin:

[Guest we_kill_soapscum]

thanks for the help!

 

should work (just try it!) but you're better off by making/buying a short network cable :grin:

 

 

MAKING a network cable? what am i, muthafuckin gapetto? how do you make cables?

[Guest iep]

thanks for the help!

 

should work (just try it!) but you're better off by making/buying a short network cable :grin:

 

 

MAKING a network cable? what am i, muthafuckin gapetto? how do you make cables?

 

come on man, macguyver already did that shit 20 years ago using JUST A PAPERCLIP, TWO GRAMS OF CAT-HAIR AND A PLASTIC CHAIR, this is the SPACE AGE, the AGE OF TECHNOLOGY WITH CARS ROAMING THE STREETS, MECHS CARRIYNG DINOSAURS ON THEIR BACK WHILE-

 

ahem, sorry, got a bit carried away there.

 

just buy a big-ass roll of CAT5 cable, buy some CAT5 RJ-45 connectors, a tool to mount the connectors onto the ends of the cable (watch the color-coding on the cable tho) , and there you have it... lots cheaper than 'pre-made' UTP-cables... and more flexible (for example, you can make cables that are 2,3m long or something obscure and far-out avant-garde like that)

 

color coding for regular straight utp cable:

 

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or spend like 5 bucks at most buying a crossover cable. srsly.

[xfxf]

color coding for regular straight utp cable:

 

that's a crossover cable. notice how some cables are "crossed over"?

 

[Guest iep]

yeah i know, couldnt find a better pic