[Globalsk8]

Hello,

We have a internal network with 4 pc's connected to our university network. We are going to do a lot of video and we need a lot of bandwith, we want to make our 4 pc network use 1Gig ethernet to share video files faster but want to avoid having to go outside our network and use the university resources.

Can regular switches recognise the 4 pc network and avoid going outside and send it straight between those pc and only going outside to surf the internet or whatever???

These must be done usually with a programmable switch but someone told me nowdays regular switches are able to do this.

Is it true? How can it be done?

If it is, but basic models could I get?

If not what programmable switch which is cheap could I get?

By the way we'll be using (an can only use) windows XP, no Linux...;-(

Thanks

[cheesepuff]

well, if its only 4 computers you can do an old

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trick. what it does is allows you to send text messages and files through a LAN connection. you will need to know the

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address of the computer you are trying to send it to.

1. if you are running SP 2 on the computers, you need to go to

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, admin tool,

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look for messenger.

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click and set it to auto for all 4 computers.

2. go to Run-->

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--> net help

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not sure yet how to send a file, but i take it it would be "net file" then "

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" then something else.



3. to test if this could work what you could do is send a message to the other computer.

net send "

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here" message "say something here"

if all goes well you can send a message confirming the process could work. remember, this has to be done on a LAN connection with a computer on the same LAN.

PS- sorry for the weird colors. ^^^^