Bob

02 Mar 03 09:46, Bob Lawrence wrote to Jasen Betts:

 JB>>> You need a USB peer-to-peer adaptor, and then you can do that.

 BL>> So you can do that? You can just plug in the other computer and
 BL>> access each other's drives?

 JB>> I expect there's a driver of some sort involved, and you
 JB>> probably need to set up file sharing etc, but yeah.

 BL>  Clever... that makes more sense than setting up a network.

Or does it?

A pair of 10/100Mbps NICs will cost no more than $80.00. A short pice of
CAT5 cable wired as cross over is about $10.00 

The Belkin USB file sharing doovie costs $149.00 (little box and two cables).

USB does 11Mbps, the network cards will do 100Mbps (and full duplex).

The USB thing is only ever good for two machines, with a cheap hub, or
switch, the NICs will interconnect 4/8/16/24 machines

Regards,
David

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