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SubjectRe: USB Networking?
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Philip Gladstone wrote:

How about building a small & cheap USB mini-hub?
If USB was expensive, it wouldn't be used for
keyboards, mice, etc...

> Unfortunately this is not (yet) possible as the host end is
> different to the device end. You would need a smart cable
> that would connect the two host ends together. Such a cable is
> being worked on, but it won't be cheap -- in particular a pair
> of cheap 100Mbit ethernet cards with a crossover cable will
> probably be cheaper.
>
> Matt Nelson wrote:
> >
> > i know very little about network protocols, and even less about that USB
> > thingy that comes standard on most PC's these days, but a thought occured
> > to me:
> >
> > would it be possible to use USB for networking? from what i've heard, the
> > speed of USB is similar to 10 Mbit ethernet. if this idea could work,
> > then our PC's could be networked w/out having to buy NIC's.

Rik.
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