We’ve seen quite a number of USB gadgets. Maybe you already have some ingenious ideas of making use of these USB gadgets at every corner in your house. Such as the USB blanket, which you could just leave your PC on and have this blanket on you when you’re in bed to keep you warm during the cold winter nights. Or you wanna setup a USB webcam in your kids’ room, which you can then monitor them from the PC in your room. The limitation of the normal 6 feet USB cable would have let you down for doing all this. But now, with the mini USB-2 extender, which allows you to use any USB device up to 150 feet from the computer, all your brilliant ideas can be implemented!
The mini USB-2 extender uses CAT 5 cable to transmit the USB signal between your PC and the USB device. Some might like the idea of hiding your computer away in a closet, and running your display, mouse and keyboard anywhere in your house. The downside is this extender supports only USB 1.1.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:16 am
[...] We’ve seen the wired USB extender (using network Cat 5 UTP cable) before and this time is a wireless, by Icron. It’s making use of WiFi signal to extend the footprint of USB ports over your office or house. This is very much more convenient to use. As we all know, wireless is simply much easier for installation, especially no need hacking of walls and laying cables that’d possibly mess up your work or living environment. The ExtremeUSB WiRanger by Icron, is a four-port USB hub with a pretty big attenna that enables wireless extension of USB up to 30m via 802.11g. The radio channel is selectable to improve co-existence with deployed 802.11 networks. The WiRanger acts as a normal hub, and is compatible all kinds of USB devices. Wireless surely will have relatively lower speed than the wired, that’s the only thing that you’ll need to tolerate. Icron’s WiRanger reportedly works out of the box so it’s a plug and play solution for Windows and Mac. [...]
May 27th, 2009 at 8:41 am
[...] you to extend your USB connection up to 150 feet away. This adapter makes use of the pretty common Cat5, Cat5e or Cat6 cable to extend the USB signal for up to 150 feet away from your [...]