Thread: sharing data windows 7 between 2 computers not online

Yes, it's easy enough to connect both PCs to a stand-alone hub (or a router) that has no external connection. You would use standard ethernet cables for this, and assign two different ethernet addresses from a group reserved for local operations (e.g. 192.168.10.xxx). The crucial thing for an audio PC is never to open a browser - just use Control Panel once to set up the addresses and then use Explorer to perform file transfers. This, of course, needs both computers connected at the same time.

It's quite possible to use wireless connection instead of wired, but to avoid any chance of audio breakthrough I would recommend that you install cabling.

Wireless speeds are just too slow to move any decent amount of data.

Actually, you just need to connect that "crossover" cable of appropriate length... provided that both computers have a network card.

You'll need to set up appropriate type file sharing on the source computer... unless you're sharing files both ways.

If so, you'll need to add a user account on both computers, that allow them to read and write files into the specified folders.

I don't recommend sharing the typical "public" folders, as you have a wireless connection in the loop. Those folder then become extremely vulnerable. Choose a folder directly on each computer's data drive and make those folders only visible to the "authenticated" users you previously set up.

So the IP addresses don't screw up your existing router configuration, just use DHCP instead of static IP, and use computer names to browse for each box.

The "best" permanent solution is to get a decent switch in there; ISP -> Modem -> Router -> Switch -> Network/computers

You can then set up something like a SAN/NAS or DAS box for all your file sharing.

The advantage is that you don't use the flaked out/basically unstable file sharing capabilities of Windoze on your workstations... increasing your security and OS stability by a factor of a coupla' thousand percent.

Putting the responsibility of file sharing on a dedicated device/box is just plain easier, to boot!