Asteron Wrote:WTH.... I guess that center bit is like two USB network adapters + crossover cable?
I think yes (if i understand correctly). As i have read at the link i put on the other topic (
UsbNet) it seems it has a chip with two usb-b adaptors conected betwen them, so you connect one USB-master at each end (for example the XBox and a PC) and it pass the data from one end to another. Over that run something similar to a TCP/IP net protocol so you can transfer data as betwen two computers connect by ethernet. THIS is what i was asking for on the other topic: add this support so usb linux powered gadgets (iPodLinux, for example) can be connected by USB-Net and break-out the 4GB limit since you don't connect to a USB drive, instead you're using a net connection over USB.
There are other similar adaptors with two USB-master conectors used to connect two usb periphericals (for example a digital camera and a hard disk) but cost a lot more...
Oh, and i have read that there are A-A wires without chip but it seems they work but doesn't have electrical meaning so they can break your machines, and there is an usb extension called "
USB On-The-Go" that allow to switch from usb-master to usb-slave and viceversa by software, so you can connect what you want, when you want, how you want and with you want (some similar to '60s "Free Love" with a nerd point :p)
I knew it: i should have make the two ideas at only one topic...