USB to TCP/IP Network

[phillj]

I hope this is the right place for this?

I stumbled across this today:

http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/ne...ex_en.html

Thought it might be worth mentioning to everyone. I have not used it but it is a device that can convert USB into TCP/IP (network) device. It has so many features I can think of, you can install this in the house and use it for your SD card reader, or external storage, maybe even Blu-ray drive, not sure if it would cope with that, but just maybe.

We have an Anywhere USB device at work that I am using, which cost over £300 last time I bought one for work Too much for home use! Were this is only £40.

[northan]

looks nice, is there a price?
100mbs seems a little slow for any real data transfer, I guess it's cool for printers and backing up, but that's why I bought a network printer and have a server. Will an optical drive work?

[phillj]

(07-13-2010 09:00 PM)northan Wrote:  looks nice, is there a price?
100mbs seems a little slow for any real data transfer, I guess it's cool for printers and backing up, but that's why I bought a network printer and have a server. Will an optical drive work?

I also thin kit has got to be to slow for optical drives. The Anywhere USB we use at work is used for the security system donlge (the computer host is running on VMware vSphere 4). It works reliably, though I am not sure how reliable it would be for a higher bandwidth use items.

I may be getting one soon, if I can justify taking a punt for £40 (not a lot, but my daughter has started crawling and I need to move the media center out of the lounge and I cannot afford to take a punt on everything).

[elootos]

It's a 4 port USB2 hub connecting over 100MBit network. So USB2 is 40Mb/sec but it will max out over the network connection at 10Mb/sec. If it were USB1it would only go at 1.5Mb/sec so it's quite good at 10Mb/sec really. I think read speeds of Blu-ray and even average USB mem sticks are lower than 10Mb so it will perform quite well.

[phillj]

(07-13-2010 10:23 PM)elootos Wrote:  It's a 4 port USB2 hub connecting over 100MBit network. So USB2 is 40Mb/sec but it will max out over the network connection at 10Mb/sec. If it were USB1it would only go at 1.5Mb/sec so it's quite good at 10Mb/sec really. I think read speeds of Blu-ray and even average USB mem sticks are lower than 10Mb so it will perform quite well.

Sound like it might be a goer then. I am going to try and get one (I need one for something at work) to test it and see how reliable it is and how well it performs. If (and this depends on a few things) I get one I will let you know how it goes.