Guitar, I don't want to argue with you over something you don't seem to really understand. But I will anyway.
Your claim is ridiculus. 1/3?
Please back up your claim wih some evidence, I am open minded and willing to learn.
I was under the impression that routers simply filtered and "routed" information packets based on the destinaion IP. More so, on a local network they work on an even simpler level of a switch, simply forwarding packets based on MAC address. There should be almost no difference in speed through a router/switch as opposed to crossover.
100 Mbit/sec = 12.5 Mbyte/sec. I can usually attain over 10 Mbyte/sec via my router over 100Mbit ethernet. That's at least 80% of the advertised 100 Mbit. Not 1/3.
The thread starter does have a problem, but it isn't the lack of use of a crossover cable. Perhaps a hub?
edit:I should add: Flash drives aren't all that fast, and aren't a good answer to this problem.
This post has been edited by Movax: Mar 11 2007, 05:09 AM