Re: USB to ethernet cable
- From: Lem <lemp40@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 13:28:40 -0400
J Lunis wrote:
Win XP SP2
Hope this is the proper ng for this question.
Have a home network consisting of a PC connected by cable to my router, and a laptop that connects wirelessly.
I have four devices I would like to try to connect to my router. All are USB devices. I have read about an adapter cable (USB on one end, ethernet on the other) that may allow me to connect these devices to my router so they can be visible across the network.
Epson printer
Tivo DVR
Western Digital USB external drive
Dell photo printer.
Will the adapter cable do what I want it to do?
It depends on what this "adapter cable" really is. As Gordon indicated, you can't install a USB plug on one end of a piece of wire and an RJ45 plug on the other end. Most USB/Ethernet adapters are intended to permit a computer that has a USB jack to connect to an Ethernet network. As such, they have drivers that need to be installed on the computer in order to function.
Because none of the devices you mention are computers (actually, the TiVo is, but it doesn't run Windows, so the result is the same), none of them will run the driver supplied with the "cable" or "adapter."
That said, there are driverless adapters. These often are sold as "game adapters" or similar or, for printers, "print servers."
The easy devices are the two printers. Search for "print server". For example, here's what Linksys sells: http://tinyurl.com/2f6akv IIRC, this is a fairly expensive item, and you can probably find cheaper, simpler devices from the other usual home networking vendors (Netgear, D-Link, Belkin, etc).
Linksys also sells a product that will allow you to connect your USB disk: http://tinyurl.com/37n4aj Again, if you search the other vendors, you'll find competing products.
TiVo works with various devices. See http://tinyurl.com/yn5yms
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