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Originally Posted by
cgkmal
I did connecting both laptops with a straight cable (I was thinking it was posibly only with crossover cable).
Technically, recent ethernet interfaces should autodetect whether the transmit/receive pairs are reversed. I've found that they do so badly, though, especially with cheap cards; often negotiating down to lower speeds than they would if the cable was properly crossed.
There may be other reasons for the slow transfer speed, of course. I do hope you mean 3 megabytes at least, not 3 megabits!