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Ethernet to USB adapter

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Perryg114

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It would be nice if there was such a thing as an ethernet to USB adapter so you could put USB devices like hard drives more than a few feet away from your computer. I have seen these fireproof/waterproof USB external hard drives and it would be nice if you could put that in a remote location. I know there are NAS systems but USB devices are usually more portable. I guess a USB to ethernet to USB adapter would work as well. Something to make your computer think that the device is 6ft away instead of 60.

Perry
 
I don't get your question. There ARE adaptor to connect a USB HD to an ethernet connection. There are also USB extenders that utilize a CAT5e cable.

Which do you need?
 
Perryg114 said:
So can you maintain USB 2.0 throughput?
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No idea. It is designed to be cheap and most of that stuff does not exactly fly.

That being said, even a 100Mb/s network will limit a good USB 2.0 drive. (10MB/s vs 30MB/s).

For point to point, USB should be faster over most home networks as not that many people run Gbit networks, end to end.
 
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