Hi all, popping in here with my noob queries again.
My mate's just bought a netbook, so he can surf the net in bed, and so he can take it with him to the States when he goes in April- basically as a glorified MP3 player I expect. He asked me to lend him a large-ish memory card so that he can copy over his massive collection of Frank Sinatra() MP3s, so I gave him my 8GB micro-SDHC card and my Poundland reader (I've managed 5.55MB sustained write speed on a class 4 card with this combo
).
I need the card back now so I can bung it in my T-Mobile Pulse and reinstall all my apps that got wiped when I had to reinstall the ROM. He texted me back all disgruntled saying that he'd not copied all his files yet. It occurred to me that I have an old 10/100 network switch lying around here, and that it would be quickest and easiest to just copy the files from one computer to the other over a network. Then it occurred to me that his ADSL connection is through the free wireless router that Sky provided him when he signed up for their broadband. It's a Netgear despite the Sky branding, I'm pretty sure it's some variety of DG834G. It's new enough to support WPA-PSK, as that's what I set it up with when I went round to turn the wireless on so he could surf wirelessly on the netbook (used a free app on the Pulse to find him a completely clear channel too
). And it's connected to his PC (which I built) via an excessively long RJ45 cable that I found in a skip about 6 years ago.
So anyway, I'm thinking that if I go round there with another RJ45 cable (of which I have loads), I can plug his netbook into the second port on the switch, enable sharing of the hard disks on both PCs, and then look for network drives on both. Both computers are running XP. This is pretty much how I set the network up with my old (now defunct) switch when I built a dually for crunching Find-A-Drug and parked it next to my main computer all those years ago.
Is there some flaw in this plan? Anyone used the network switch capabilities of a Netgear router? Am I on the right path?
TIA.


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