IEEE1394 may also be worth some consideration, especially since you can just
connect them directly without a device in between, and without special
drivers (on most OS's anyway).
Regards,
- Marcel

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Gerhard Fiedler <lists@connectionbrazil.co=
m>
wrote:

> Tom=E1s =D3 h=C9ilidhe wrote:
>
> > Let's say a friend of yours has a load of films on the internal hard
> > disk on his laptop. You want to copy some of them to your own laptop,
> > and the total is about 50 gigabytes.
> >
> > How do you do it?
> >
> > Let's say that your own laptop is running Microsoft Windows, but the
> > donor laptop can be running anything (e.g. Linux / Mac OS / Solaris /
> > XBox / Playstation 3)
> >
> > Well at the moment here's what I do:
> >
> > * On my own laptop, give my NIC a static IP
> > * Enable file sharing on my own laptop and share the folder into which I
> > want to copy the files
> > * On the donor laptop, give the NIC a static IP in the same subnet as my
> > own laptop
> > * Go to a file manager and type \\10.10.10.1\  (=3D address of my own
> laptop)
> > * Copy the files across
> >
> > Now this method works great, but I'm just wondering if I'm missing out
> > on a faster way. Is Samba file sharing fast enough, or should I be using
> > something like FTP?
>
> For your purposes, I think the transmission protocol (in this case TCP and
> ethernet) is what determines the limit. Depending on the situation, you
> probably can increase your throughput by working on the TCP settings and/=
or
> by moving to gigabit ethernet.
>
> For short distances and reasonably recent computers, I don't think the
> higher level protocol (file shares and a simple copy, ftp, whatever) makes
> much of a difference. It can make a difference in processor load, but I
> don't think that either of the two are high. (If you add encryption etc,
> you can get higher of course.)
>
> If you have USB2 ports on both systems but no gigabit ports, file sharing
> through USB may be faster -- but you'd need a device that connects the tw=
o.
>
> Gerhard
>
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