My brother and I are attempting to hook our computers together for file sharing and gaming. We both have windows xp installed. We both have network cards and went out today and purchased a cat5e cable crossover. I've tried several time to get this to work through the Network connection wizard, but when I select the connect directly to another computer option, it only allows me to select the serial or parallel ports for file transfer. How do I get XP to recognize that we are connected via a cable crossover? I think my PC recognizes this while my brother's does not, but then again, I'm not sure. Anyone who can provide detailed steps for setting up a cable crossover connection between two PCs running XP...it'd be greatly appreciated!