say I connect two Macs that support gigabit ethernet. can I use a plain-old crossover cable (cat5) and get "gigabit" speeds? or is there a special gigabit version of cat5? I'm confused. this is a ...

My new iBook (900MHz) just arrived, and I want to transfer some files from my primary computer (iMac). I've done this in the past between earlier Macs, but always using OS9. How can I do this with OSX ...

Ethernet is ubiquitous, fast, and simple. You only need two diffpairs (four wires) to establish a 100Mbit link, the hardware is everywhere, you can do Ethernet over long distances easily, and tons of ...