On Wednesday 22 August 2007, David Turvene wrote: > > First, one question: are the new Vista Easy Transfer cables (e.g. Belkin > F5U258) simply a re-branding effort? Are they basically the cables you > mention above or is there some different technology involved?
No idea. > After spending a couple hours researching, I found that almost all USB > host-host cables in the US use either Prolific or PLX/Netchip. The Ali > M5632 seems to be more available in Europe. For a while, M5632 was the most common highspeed cable here. I have no idea what the current state of that market is. > I didn't find any NET1080 devices - which seems to be EOLed. Right. > The NET2280 is used in the Belkin > F5U104, which is still in production and relatively cheap; this seems > like the best choice from your email. F5U104 is the one, yes. > But then it hit me: buying two USB-DB9 dongles and a null modem ($65) is > a good-enough-for-now solution with a couple minutes of configuration. > I'm staring at all these beautiful trees in front of me but I have to > find a way out of this forest soon - the closest exit seems to be at the > end of a DB9 plug. Cool stuff, though! Yeah, the USB host-to-host cable products are a bit wierd; a notion that's just awkward enough to have a hard time really catching on. Especially when none of the products have publicly available specs! - Dave > > Dave > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
