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X ` Man[_3_]

On 8/11/12 11:37 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 08:35:01 -0400, Meyer wrote:

That dongle just adds WiFi to a machine
that doesn't have it. This is not a USB repeater that would run a USB
mouse 80 feet away.
I have no problem cloning the monitor and audio of my media machine
all over the house (it is channel 68 on any TV) but no joy on the
pointing device.

Sounds like you need a wireless usb transmitter and reciever hooked up
to a secondary mouse, or a second media machine, or just can the whole idea.

That "wireless USB transmitter/receiver" is the problem.

I've seen a wireless USB hub at one of the computer box stores. I
suppose you plug a dongle into the printer/scanner/whatever USB port and
the USB hub sends and receives signals from a WiFi router. You still
have the same problem, though...if the scanner is distant from where you
are using your computer, you still have to walk over to the scanner to
put your documents on the flatbed.

The cabinet my wife wants to stash her new scanner in is about 12' from
the back of her computer. I measured it. The new cable will work fine,
and no one will notice the cable among the several along the baseboard
in her home office.

Sometimes less complicated is better.

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