New computer how to transfer old system across 435

That sounds like the best way butI am unfamiliar with routers. Acually I am a bit surprised you cannot do something like just connect up two computers via a USB cable and send the data through that. It might require some software to comtrol the link but itis the kind of thing which sounds feasible to me.

How much does a 'dirt cheap' router cost, what kind of figure did u have in mind? had a look on ebay and there was huge range on ebay. It looks like I am looking at about £20?

It would be a handy thing to have as I have 2 computers now :O) but only one monitor so far!! I am using my CDRW drive to transfer data already on CD but I am having some probs, the CDRW seems to work much better in the old machine. In the new machine it only reads about 40% of the disks it reads when in the old machine for some reason. I found the DVDRW drive in the new machine will read some too. I can't get both to work at once (unsure of jumper settings) so I just use one as a master. I could try installing the software which came with the CD Drive but I fear I might screw up the DVD drive.