On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 00:46:21 -0400, Claude Jones <claude_jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The main reason I want this is that my wife is working with lots of very large > audio/video files, and transferring them back and forth between her two > computers - this could be greatly sped up if the computers were on a gigabit > switch and had gigabit nics in each and could communicate with each other > directly that way, instead of going through the much slower wireless > connections... Just connect the two machines with a crossover cable and use a different private network for that connection. That's fairly simple and cheap.