Transfer Files Between Two PCs using LAN Cable Fastest Method

Hello guys, in today's video, I'll show you how to connect two computers using a LAN cable without using any internet connection or Wi-Fi router. This method is extremely useful when you want to transfer large files like movies, games, backups, or project files quickly between the two computers. Since this is a direct wired connection, the speed is much more stable and faster compared to Wi-Fi. Let's start with the physical connection. Take a normal ethernet cable and connect one end to the first computer and the other end to the second computer. Modern computers automatically detect whether it's a straight cable or crossover cable, so you don't need any special type of cable in most cases. Now we'll configure the network settings. We'll first complete everything on the first computer, then move on to the second one. On the first computer, open the search bar and type network connections. Open it. Right click on the ethernet adapter and select properties. From the list, select internet protocol version 4 and click on properties. Here we are going to assign a static IP address. Since there is no router in this setup, there is no device to automatically assign IP addresses. So we must manually put both computers in the same network range. Select use the following IP address and enter 192.168.1.100 as the IP address. The subnet mask will automatically fill as 255.255.255.0. Leave the default gateway field blank because we are not routing traffic to the internet. Both computers will communicate directly within the same local network. Click OK and close all the windows. Now we need to allow file sharing in windows. To do this, open control panel. Then network and internet. Then open network and sharing center. On the left side, click on change advanced sharing settings. Under private network, turn on network discovery. Also turn on file and printer sharing. Under public network, again turn on network discovery and file and printer sharing. Then scroll down to all networks. Turn on public folder sharing. And turn off password protected sharing to make access easier. Now we'll create a dedicated local account on this first computer. This step is very important in windows because modern computer versions prefer authenticated access. For that, go to settings. Then accounts. Then other users. Add a new user without a Microsoft account. Create a local account with a username like share user and set a password. Remember this username and password carefully. We are creating this account so that when the second computer connects, it can authenticate properly without errors. Now, create a folder anywhere on your computer. You can name it something like shared folder so it's easy to identify. Then copy all the files that you want to transfer into this folder. Keeping everything inside one dedicated folder makes the sharing process clean and organized. Once your files are inside this folder, right click on the shared folder and select properties. From here, we'll configure the sharing and permission settings. Go to the sharing tab and click advanced sharing. Enable share this folder. Then click permissions. Click add. Type the username of the local account you just created. Click check names. If everything is correct, it will automatically underline the username. Now select the user and allow full control. Click apply and okay. Now go to the security tab. Click edit. Then add. And again, add the same local user. Give full control here as well and click apply. Windows uses both sharing permissions and NTFS security permissions. If you configure only one of them, access will fail. Both must allow the same user. Now the first computer is completely ready. Let's move to the second computer. On the second computer, open network connections. Right click ethernet and open internet protocol version 4. Select use the following IP address and enter 192.168.1.101. The subnet mask will automatically fill. You can leave the default gateway blank here as well. Because both computers are in the same subnet and can communicate directly without a router. Click okay and close everything. Now open the control panel and go to advanced sharing settings. You need to enable network discovery and file and printer sharing on this second computer as well. Now open file explorer. In this address bar, type double backslash followed by the IP address of the first computer and press enter. Windows will now ask for network credentials. Enter the local username and password that you created on the first computer. After entering the correct credentials, the shared folder will open. Now you can freely copy and paste files between both computers. If both system files support gigabyte ethernet, you can get speeds up to around 100 Mbps, which is much faster than Wi-Fi. And that's it. You have successfully connected to computers directly using a LAN cable without internet or router. If this video helped you make sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel and press the bell icon for more practical tech tutorials. If you still face any issue, leave a comment describing exactly what errors you see and I'll help you out. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video.