Does that sound like it would work?
(I personally am not interested in USB, so I don't know much about the
hardware).
--Perry
>
> 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.
>
> Philip
>
> 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.
> >
> > just a thought.
> >
> > -matt
> >
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