Telnet / SSH connection timeout on LAN

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My goal: 
To set up rsync over SSH, to sync my org-mode GTD files, activated every
time my laptop or pc goes idle, as described by Gina Trapani.

Network hardware architecture: 
Windows 7 laptop and desktop, connected directly by cat 5e ethernet cable. 
Also both connected via wifi to the same router. 

Network functionality: 
Windows firewalls currently disabled
Windows shared folders works for directory browsing and editing
Synctoy worked to sync drives, although it spewed a lot of errors and took a
long time and many retries to sync ~250 gb. Did it over the ethernet cable
because wifi was too slow. 

Cygwin functionality: 
ping works. 
telnet error: connection timed out
ssh error: connection timed out
ssh connection to localhost - works

Background and guesses:

I've read and tried many fixes with no luck, to the best of my limited
understanding. 

I doubt network names are configured correctly; I'm out of my depth there.
Pinging works with fixed IP addresses assigned for the ethernet connection. 

I don't know what I'm doing and would appreciate some guidance. Cheers.



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