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- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbip/ if the site is down (Which ATM it's not)
Itzac, your crazy? :P
This is usefull, but only if you need it/can think of something to use it for.. T'is usefull to me beacuse I can (hopefully) now share my USB printer, as the normal printer-sharing refuses to work, so hopefully I can share the printer using this..
Now sure how hard it is to setup, mainly the clients, but if it's simple to set up the clients, you could, like someone has said, have a wireless USB hub, and have various USB devices on a laptop while moving about. Yeh, you could share them, but 1, some things aren't easily shared via normal methods, 2, it might be easier, 3, some things might not like being shared.. But, I've not acctualy tried this yet, it might be harder to setup than normal sharing, but we'll see..
Cool idea though
- Ben - LesOReilly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There are products like this already out in the world. They also make them for rs-232 devices.
- phuct, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i really wanted something like this a few years ago. i wanted to use a webcam remotely, but be virtually local. i did find a program to do just that but i dont recall the name, plus it was loaded with spyware.
- pcgeek101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow ...somebody had a really good idea.
- ronin9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Interesting, but wouldn't it be limited to a single session due to the fact that it is a serial connection? Wouldn't want to try to access a printer or storage device that way.
- 3adkied, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great! The one thing better than a webcam - other people's webcams.
- pbros, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This will be very big in the embedded systems area! Very nice...too bad their server's down...I can't download the code.
- mmastrac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This project will be awesome once someone ports it to the NSLU2. You can set up an ethernet-powered USB hub anywhere you have a few square inches to spare.
- Deenem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great, now instead of getting junk faxes all the time, the spammers can print directly to my printer :-(
- epinephrine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice.
- energetik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/server/
Keyspan has had this for a couple of months now. USB over IP :) - interiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This should have been done YEARS ago. Very obvious, very useful. It just takes a little work. And possibly some standardization, so that hopefully we can get this in the BIOS some day.
- warofwrath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sounds cool, someone should resubmit when it is available for XP and out of pre-Alpha stage ;)
- itzac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Call me crazy, but I don't really see this being all that useful. The web-cam thing is probably the most compelling use but you couldn't really do it over the internet. The bandwidth requirements of most usb devices pretty much limit you to a LAN, at which point you could just walk over to the device if you needed it.
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