On the other hand, can you connect multiple firewire devices
together?
Philip
Perry Harrington wrote:
>
> Hmm, all you'd need really is a smart hub. Then each USB device would
> talk to the hub, and the data returned from the hub would be data from
> other computers.
>
> 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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