rstlne wrote in message
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Laurence Payne wrote
rstlne wrote

Is there a particular reason you don't want to put in network cards?

Take a look at the earlier post..
It seems like it can be done for about
65% of the cost of traditional ethernet

What price are you paying for a pci net card?
Easily available for a few pounds here in the UK.

The usb kit quoted is about 8£

Thats at the very low end. You would normally pay a lot more
than that, so you arent comparing like with like prices wise.

if you could get say 3.50£ for a nic (each) and 1£ for the cable

Corse you can, and a lot less than that too.

and it would be the same..
But You'll end up paying about what..
6£ for a nic and 1.50£ for the cable..
That's of course assuming rock bottom prices, as a
local computer shop will charge 5-10£ for the cable..

There's plenty of sources of cables for a lot less than that.

Dont get me wrong on this.. I def aint knocking our
standard IEEE 802.xx(x) kits are really good and reliable..

I use 11g and rj45 all around the house and I know there is no way that USB
will be stable once I try to run it 20/30/100/+++ feet. But For that user
to simply move files for video encoding then I think this is a great idea..

Nope, too expensive and too non standard.

IF both of his ports are USB2 Compliant,

Bloody unlikely if it hasnt got NICs standard.

and the Kit works correctly then he could be chuggin along at 480m..

Big if with USB2

That kinda dwarfs my 11g (standard? or not yet final?) kit that I am using.

Irrelevant. The sensible thing to compare it with is wired CAT5

If both of computers have the chips on the motherboard to allow
it (and know for a fact that they were added to some boards 3/ish
years ago then he might get out of this JUST by buying a cable..

And thats almost certain if he has USB2 already.