Vista Easy Transfer Cable

[Nocturnal]

Does this cable exist without the label of being a Vista Easy Transfer Cable or is this cable proprietary as far as the wires inside the cable go?

Anyone prefer one brand over the other?

 

[Looney]

I would say that's a waste of money. Just use a crossover cable or even a normal patch cable.

 

[Matthias99]

I saw these at CompUSA last week. Huge ripoff. As far as I can tell it's just a USB crossover cable with a fancy label on it.

 

[V00D00]

Originally posted by: Looney
I would say that's a waste of money. Just use a crossover cable or even a normal patch cable.

I second that.

 

[RebateMonger]

If you have Gigabit NICs on both PCs, then just a standard Cat5e (or CAT6) patch cable will work at VERY high speed. No crossover cable is required for Gigabit NICs.

 

[dgsg]

Go to Best Buy, but cable, use cable & return cable. Worked for me.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: dgsg
Go to Best Buy, but cable, use cable & return cable. Worked for me.

:roll::thumbsdown:

Use a router.
If you need to regularly need to copy data, get a gigabit router/switch + ethernet cables...

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: dgsg
Go to Best Buy, but cable, use cable & return cable. Worked for me.

Here at Anandtech the moderators frown upon this type of behavior. Just a FYI. It's also costing the company you bought it from money to have to send it off to be re-packaged or it will be sold at a loss since it is an open boxed item. That's not cool at all.