Wireless USB device

Just wondering , Is there a wireless device that allows you to connect
your USB device to (for example a scanner or a camera) and connect to
your PC wirelessly ?

> Just wondering , Is there a wireless device that allows you to connect
> your USB device to (for example a scanner or a camera) and connect to
> your PC wirelessly ?

None that I know of that would fit into the sensible price bracket.
What are you trying to avoid, cable mess? I can't see much benefit from
having a scanner connected at long distance!

Essentially what would be nice would be bluetooth enabled devices for
some of these sort of things except that you might want the higher
bandwidth of 802.11g or similar.

Part of the problem will be that you're connecting very low end price
devices and so nobody wants to pay for the extra cost of embedding
wireless comms in them that perhaps a fraction of the customer base will
end up using.

David.

David Taylor wrote:
>>Just wondering , Is there a wireless device that allows you to connect
>>your USB device to (for example a scanner or a camera) and connect to
>>your PC wirelessly ?
>
>
> None that I know of that would fit into the sensible price bracket.
> What are you trying to avoid, cable mess? I can't see much benefit from
> having a scanner connected at long distance!
>
> Essentially what would be nice would be bluetooth enabled devices for
> some of these sort of things except that you might want the higher
> bandwidth of 802.11g or similar.
>
> Part of the problem will be that you're connecting very low end price
> devices and so nobody wants to pay for the extra cost of embedding
> wireless comms in them that perhaps a fraction of the customer base will
> end up using.
>
> David.
A scanner was an example, but it would be nice to be able to connect
printer or web cam, without the big cost of getting a network enabled
one. As you say they are cheap.

> A scanner was an example, but it would be nice to be able to connect
> printer or web cam, without the big cost of getting a network enabled
> one. As you say they are cheap.

Potentially very simple to do, e.g.
http://www.rfsolutions.co.uk/acatalo...h_Modules.html

Those radio modules would let you take the USB serial signal and
transmit it but as I said, I don't think they fall into the sensible
price bracket as you'd still have to add on some other bits.

The other potential problem is that if you're talking USB2 with 480Mbps
bandwidth, 802.11g is going to struggle at that.

It could work for the low bandwidth devices but then you're into cost
again.

David.

Linksys makes a wireless print server, that will do exactly what your
trying to do for about $100

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:40:39 GMT, Richard <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Just wondering , Is there a wireless device that allows you to connect
>your USB device to (for example a scanner or a camera) and connect to
>your PC wirelessly ?

See:
http://www.aircable.net
Note that these are not 802.11 but use BlueToothe. At this time,
there's no USB-to-USB product that will work with every single type of
USB device, but they're working on it.

Plug: Aircable is in Santa Cruz CA, so buy one and support our local
economy.


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In article <(E-Mail Removed). com>,
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> Linksys makes a wireless print server, that will do exactly what your
> trying to do for about $100

Yes for printers but not for the other devices and compared to a USB
cable it's quite a price jump.

David.

Richard wrote:
> Just wondering , Is there a wireless device that allows you to connect
> your USB device to (for example a scanner or a camera) and connect to
> your PC wirelessly ?

Not yet, but there is a group developing Wireless USB, and if it comes
to market, dongles for existing USB devices will be available.

http://www.deviceforge.com/articles/AT9015145687.html

Richard wrote:
> Just wondering , Is there a wireless device that allows you to connect
> your USB device to (for example a scanner or a camera) and connect to
> your PC wirelessly ?

Forgot, "http://www.usb.org/developers/wusb/"

> http://www.aircable.net

Good find, price is about what I'd expect but I'd still have thought
that bandwidth could be a problem for some USB2 devices?

David.