[PLUG] Linux crashes Windows!

m0gely m0gely at telestream.com
Tue Feb 21 18:27:10 UTC 2006


Jeme A Brelin wrote:

> You think it sounds inconvenient to unplug a device and plug it into 
> another when they're a few feet apart?

If I were him, and I had gigs of data to transfer like that once in a 
while then no (assuming his older Win2K machine uses a 100Mb 
connection).  It's more convenient to get the transfer done faster.  But 
moving things back and forth frequently, if that's the case, then yes. 
Even if they were 1ft apart.  It would be better to invest in Gb 
ethernet then and put the bottleneck back on the USB.

On a side note, I have never had one but I've read a Firewire device can 
be shared via a Firewire hub.  Both machines would see the device as 
natively attached.  You would retain almost as much portability and gain 
transfer speed over a 10/100 network.

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