# Directly connecting two Windows 7 PCs together.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 5, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directly-connecting-two-windows-7-pcs-together/531362 "2010-03-05T01:05:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![HorseloverFat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8e8cbc/32.png) [@HorseloverFat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HorseloverFat)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directly-connecting-two-windows-7-pcs-together/531362/21 "2010-03-08T05:54:07Z")

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Wireless is not 54mbps. Thats the link speed. I suggest you use something like iperf to test your real world speeds. Typically, I get between 10-20 mbps (megaBITS) depending on the location. I think the theoretical max is 24 or 27. So anywhere between 1 and 2 metaBYTES per second. Youre still transfering on the wireless. Disable your wireless adapters before you try the crossover trick.

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**Author:** ![HorseloverFat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8e8cbc/32.png) [@HorseloverFat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HorseloverFat)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directly-connecting-two-windows-7-pcs-together/531362/22 "2010-03-08T05:56:21Z")

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Oh, while I’m at it, my fancy wireless-n 300mbps tops off at a real world speed for 38-42mbps. So maybe 4 megabytes per second.

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directly-connecting-two-windows-7-pcs-together/531362/23 "2010-03-08T06:05:23Z")

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I just did this with two desktop PCs, one running XP, the other, Win7. With a gigabit card in each, I assigned a static IP to one of 10.0.0.7 and the other, 10.0.0.6.

Gigabit cards can figure out the connections and should work with a straight or crossover cable, and mine did. No software firewall needed, so disable it.

Then I mapped a drive from Computer A on Computer B and vice-versa. Now all I had to do was copy from one drive to another. Worked great. Hope yours works as well.

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