Re: USB host-to-host console

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
> 
> 



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