On 8/11/2012 2:02 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:35:19 -0400, Meyer wrote:

On 8/10/2012 3:30 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:42:18 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article , dump-on-
says...

On 8/10/12 1:02 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:07:28 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

There's no reason to deal with companies unfriendly to consumers or
companies that overcharge. I needed a new 15' USB A/B cable so I checked
it out at Office Depot. $32.00. Insanity. The same cable through Amazon
was $7.00. I would have paid $10 at Office Depot for convenience of
"instant" delivery into my hand, but more than four times as much? ****
Office Depot. Oh, wait...isn't that a Bain Capital funded company? That
explains the overcharging!

No that was Staples, before the merger.

BTW you are really pushing USB to try to run it out 15'. Better is a
powered extension cable with a repeater.


It's for my wife's new scanner. I have my scanner on a 15' USB cable and
it works just fine. Hers will sit in a cabinet some distance from her
desk and computer. That's where she wants it.

Gee, I love my wireless world.


Do you have a wireless solution for USB devices. I am still looking
for one.


That's easy

http://www.walmart.com/search/search...ss+lan+adapter

Google has failed you my man. 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.

In article om,
says...

On 8/11/2012 2:02 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:35:19 -0400, Meyer wrote:

On 8/10/2012 3:30 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:42:18 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article , dump-on-
says...

On 8/10/12 1:02 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:07:28 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

There's no reason to deal with companies unfriendly to consumers or
companies that overcharge. I needed a new 15' USB A/B cable so I checked
it out at Office Depot. $32.00. Insanity. The same cable through Amazon
was $7.00. I would have paid $10 at Office Depot for convenience of
"instant" delivery into my hand, but more than four times as much? ****
Office Depot. Oh, wait...isn't that a Bain Capital funded company? That
explains the overcharging!

No that was Staples, before the merger.

BTW you are really pushing USB to try to run it out 15'. Better is a
powered extension cable with a repeater.


It's for my wife's new scanner. I have my scanner on a 15' USB cable and
it works just fine. Hers will sit in a cabinet some distance from her
desk and computer. That's where she wants it.

Gee, I love my wireless world.


Do you have a wireless solution for USB devices. I am still looking
for one.


That's easy

http://www.walmart.com/search/search...ss+lan+adapter

Google has failed you my man. 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.

Most of the those USB wireless devices were for "N" band connections.
Most laptops on have "B" and "G" band wireless.

On 8/11/2012 8:54 AM, BAR wrote:
In article om,
says...

On 8/11/2012 2:02 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:35:19 -0400, Meyer wrote:

On 8/10/2012 3:30 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:42:18 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article , dump-on-
says...

On 8/10/12 1:02 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:07:28 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

There's no reason to deal with companies unfriendly to consumers or
companies that overcharge. I needed a new 15' USB A/B cable so I checked
it out at Office Depot. $32.00. Insanity. The same cable through Amazon
was $7.00. I would have paid $10 at Office Depot for convenience of
"instant" delivery into my hand, but more than four times as much? ****
Office Depot. Oh, wait...isn't that a Bain Capital funded company? That
explains the overcharging!

No that was Staples, before the merger.

BTW you are really pushing USB to try to run it out 15'. Better is a
powered extension cable with a repeater.


It's for my wife's new scanner. I have my scanner on a 15' USB cable and
it works just fine. Hers will sit in a cabinet some distance from her
desk and computer. That's where she wants it.

Gee, I love my wireless world.


Do you have a wireless solution for USB devices. I am still looking
for one.


That's easy

http://www.walmart.com/search/search...ss+lan+adapter

Google has failed you my man. 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.

Most of the those USB wireless devices were for "N" band connections.
Most laptops on have "B" and "G" band wireless.


Don't all routers made in the last few years support N band?

In article ,
says...

"iBoaterer" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...

"Meyer" wrote in message
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On 8/10/2012 3:30 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:42:18 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:

In article ,
dump-on-
says...

On 8/10/12 1:02 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:07:28 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

There's no reason to deal with companies unfriendly to
consumers
or
companies that overcharge. I needed a new 15' USB A/B cable so
I
checked
it out at Office Depot. $32.00. Insanity. The same cable
through
Amazon
was $7.00. I would have paid $10 at Office Depot for
convenience
of
"instant" delivery into my hand, but more than four times as
much? ****
Office Depot. Oh, wait...isn't that a Bain Capital funded
company? That
explains the overcharging!

No that was Staples, before the merger.

BTW you are really pushing USB to try to run it out 15'. Better
is a
powered extension cable with a repeater.


It's for my wife's new scanner. I have my scanner on a 15' USB
cable and
it works just fine. Hers will sit in a cabinet some distance
from
her
desk and computer. That's where she wants it.

Gee, I love my wireless world.


Do you have a wireless solution for USB devices. I am still
looking
for one.


That's easy

http://www.walmart.com/search/search...ss+lan+adapter


That's fine assuming your scanner is capable of a wireless network
connection. I recently bought one to convert old photos to
electronic storage.
It requires a cable. No wireless.

USB wireless adapter.

-------------------------------------

Yup. My bad. I realized that as I was clicking on "send".

Understood!

In article , dump-on-
says...

On 8/10/12 4:01 PM, Eisboch wrote:


"Meyer" wrote in message
eb.com...

On 8/10/2012 3:30 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:42:18 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article , dump-on-
says...

On 8/10/12 1:02 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:07:28 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

There's no reason to deal with companies unfriendly to consumers or
companies that overcharge. I needed a new 15' USB A/B cable so I
checked
it out at Office Depot. $32.00. Insanity. The same cable through
Amazon
was $7.00. I would have paid $10 at Office Depot for convenience of
"instant" delivery into my hand, but more than four times as much?
****
Office Depot. Oh, wait...isn't that a Bain Capital funded company?
That
explains the overcharging!

No that was Staples, before the merger.

BTW you are really pushing USB to try to run it out 15'. Better is a
powered extension cable with a repeater.


It's for my wife's new scanner. I have my scanner on a 15' USB cable
and
it works just fine. Hers will sit in a cabinet some distance from her
desk and computer. That's where she wants it.

Gee, I love my wireless world.


Do you have a wireless solution for USB devices. I am still looking
for one.


That's easy

http://www.walmart.com/search/search...ss+lan+adapter



That's fine assuming your scanner is capable of a wireless network
connection. I recently bought one to convert old photos to electronic
storage.
It requires a cable. No wireless.




I don't see many real advantages of hooking up a flatbed scanner
wirelessly if you are using the device in a home office. You still have
to place the items to be scanned on the flatbed, which means you don't
want the scanner too far away from your computer. Wireless printing is
another matter.

You wouldn't see a real advantage because you don't have one.

In article om,
says...

On 8/10/2012 11:15 PM, Earl wrote:
X ` Man wrote:
On 8/10/12 1:02 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:07:28 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

There's no reason to deal with companies unfriendly to consumers or
companies that overcharge. I needed a new 15' USB A/B cable so I
checked
it out at Office Depot. $32.00. Insanity. The same cable through Amazon
was $7.00. I would have paid $10 at Office Depot for convenience of
"instant" delivery into my hand, but more than four times as much? ****
Office Depot. Oh, wait...isn't that a Bain Capital funded company? That
explains the overcharging!

No that was Staples, before the merger.

BTW you are really pushing USB to try to run it out 15'. Better is a
powered extension cable with a repeater.


It's for my wife's new scanner. I have my scanner on a 15' USB cable
and it works just fine. Hers will sit in a cabinet some distance from
her desk and computer. That's where she wants it.

You don't have a networked scanner on your home server?

Running back and fourth to the scanner from the computer is the essence
of their exercise regimen. And by the looks of them they don't scan many
documents.

snerk

In article om,
says...

On 8/11/2012 8:54 AM, BAR wrote:
In article om,
says...

On 8/11/2012 2:02 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:35:19 -0400, Meyer wrote:

On 8/10/2012 3:30 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:42:18 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article , dump-on-
says...

On 8/10/12 1:02 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:07:28 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

There's no reason to deal with companies unfriendly to consumers or
companies that overcharge. I needed a new 15' USB A/B cable so I checked
it out at Office Depot. $32.00. Insanity. The same cable through Amazon
was $7.00. I would have paid $10 at Office Depot for convenience of
"instant" delivery into my hand, but more than four times as much? ****
Office Depot. Oh, wait...isn't that a Bain Capital funded company? That
explains the overcharging!

No that was Staples, before the merger.

BTW you are really pushing USB to try to run it out 15'. Better is a
powered extension cable with a repeater.


It's for my wife's new scanner. I have my scanner on a 15' USB cable and
it works just fine. Hers will sit in a cabinet some distance from her
desk and computer. That's where she wants it.

Gee, I love my wireless world.


Do you have a wireless solution for USB devices. I am still looking
for one.


That's easy

http://www.walmart.com/search/search...ss+lan+adapter

Google has failed you my man. 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.

Most of the those USB wireless devices were for "N" band connections.
Most laptops on have "B" and "G" band wireless.


Don't all routers made in the last few years support N band?

The issue is not the routers, it is the computer or device having the
ability to use the N band. I have several computers that only have B/G
wireless. If I wanted to take advantage of the features of N I would
have to go and buy a B/G/N wireless interface to replace the computer's
B/G. If I buy a $29.95 USB Wireless N device I can upgrade any old PC or
laptop to N band.

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.

--
I'm a liberal because the militant fundamentalist ignorant
science-denying religious xenophobic corporate oligarchy of modern
Republican conservatism just doesn't work for me or my country.

On 8/11/12 11:53 AM, X ` Man wrote:
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.



BTW, I love how this thread morphed from a discussion about fuel for
home generators to USB devices. It's so very...rec.boats


--
I'm a liberal because the militant fundamentalist ignorant
science-denying religious xenophobic corporate oligarchy of modern
Republican conservatism just doesn't work for me or my country.

In article , dump-on-
says...

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.

What's complicated about not running cables all over a room?