How can I use a crossover cable with Synergy or ShareMouse?

Question

I have a Laptop with a mouse and keyboard, and a mac with mouse and keyboard and sucky internet connection on the mac. They both have wireless, and I have a crossover cable to connect them. How can I force Synergy/ShareMouse traffic to only go over the crossover cable to remove the sucky latency between the two?

Answer 1

This is covered on synergy's support Q&A site

In detail, you want to set up the laptop and mac to use a different IP address range - in your shoes I'd go with a simple static IP address on either side, then tell the systems to connect using those IP addresses, rather than the hostnames.