what is the fastest way to transfer file from desktop to laptop?

[alfie2]

I need to transfer like, 10-20 Gb per week from the desktop to a laptop. I am cuurently doing it with NIC[ LAN Card], but are there faster way to upload the files? USB2/ firewire, are they faster?

[Panama Red]

Are you currently using wireless or are both machines hard wired to the LAN? Wired may be a little faster since wireless typically is encrypted (assuming you are using a router and it has wireless encryption enabled).

[Staren]

This might be a good reason to look into gigabit ethernet. A lot of newer laptops have it, and if not you could get a PC Card NIC. That would speed things up. You would have to put a new NIC in your desktop if it doesn't have 10/100/1000 LAN already, and a new router or switch.

If you don't want to do that, an external firewire hard drive would be better then what you're doing now.

[glc]

Firewire can do about 1gb a minute.

[mojo]

I can move a gigabyte between 2 computers in about 30 seconds on my gigabit network. Your mileage may vary.

[alfie2]

cool

since there is no GB networkcard in either desk or the lap and there is firewire on the laptop, so I guess I will install a firewire card on the desktop....and way I go.
thanx guys.