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Connecting two Win 64 PCs with USB2 cable
I don't want to try this before I ask here. If I connected my 64-bit
Win7 and Win10 laptops with a male-male USB2 cable, would I be able to see the files of each laptop on a the file explorers on both PCs? If so, would they act in a master-slave manner? How about moving files from one laptop to the other through the USB2 cable or a software like Allway Sync? Thanks. |
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Connecting two Win 64 PCs with USB2 cable
cameo wrote:
I don't want to try this before I ask here. If I connected my 64-bit Win7 and Win10 laptops with a male-male USB2 cable, would I be able to see the files of each laptop on a the file explorers on both PCs? If so, would they act in a master-slave manner? How about moving files from one laptop to the other through the USB2 cable or a software like Allway Sync? https://www.easeus.com/pc-transfer/f...to-pc-usb.html As noted, "Insert the installation disk that was packaged with the USB cable". The physical link is just that and only that. You still need software on both computers to use that physical link. Sometimes the device provides that, like when plugging in a smartphone into a USB port on a PC. However, you don't just grab some general-use USB cable sitting in a storage drawer. That could burn out the USB controllers in one or both of your computers. You need a *bridged* USB cable. https://www.hardwaresecrets.com/conn...usb-usb-cable/ Example: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9SIAA0C5301504 (ships from China, so expect a 45-day delay to get through Customs) https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9SIABMK5CF7803 (ships from USA) What you find depends on your search criteria. At 1000 Mbps for a network connection (versus 480 Mbps for USB2), you sure your computers aren't connected to a network where you could use file sharing in both? |
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Connecting two Win 64 PCs with USB2 cable
On 12/9/2018 3:59 PM, cameo wrote:
I don't want to try this before I ask here. If I connected my 64-bit Win7 and Win10 laptops with a male-male USB2 cable, would I be able to see the files of each laptop on a the file explorers on both PCs? If so, would they act in a master-slave manner? How about moving files from one laptop to the other through the USB2 cable or a software like Allway Sync? Thanks. I connected a Windows 7 PC to a Windows XP PC using an ethernet cable from each to a router, creating a local-area network (LAN). I then had to give permissions on each for the other to see files across the LAN. To prevent conflicts when both PC might try to update the same file, the permissions were limited to specific folders or files; and many of the permissions were read-only to the other PC. This is a common way to link computers that are relatively close in physical location. In my case, I have a 4-bedroom house; but the children are grown and gone. Now, one bedroom is my office; and another is my wife's office. Between us, is our guest room. The ethernet cables run through our attic. A description of our LAN is at http://www.rossde.com/computer/LAN.html. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/. The only reason we have so many laws is that not enough people will do the right thing. (© 1997 by David Ross) |
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Connecting two Win 64 PCs with USB2 cable
cameo wrote:
I don't want to try this before I ask here. If I connected my 64-bit Win7 and Win10 laptops with a male-male USB2 cable, would I be able to see the files of each laptop on a the file explorers on both PCs? If so, would they act in a master-slave manner? How about moving files from one laptop to the other through the USB2 cable or a software like Allway Sync? Thanks. That's called a Laplink (USB transfer) cable. Prolific makes one of the chips for that. Drivers for the device, at one time supported networking (IP addresses and so on), as well as an FTP-like GUI for transferring. Then the USB.org standardized this custom design, and there should be a Class driver in Windows for it. The minus side is, maybe you don't get the same usage options. http://prolificusa.com/news/prolific...e-transfer-ic/ "The PL2701 is a single-chip SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Host-to-Host bridge controller IC. specially designed to connect two USB Host devices such as Desktop/Laptop PC" If it supports networking with IP addresses and so on, and ICS (internet connection sharing) assigned 192.168.1.1, then you can probably do regular File Sharing, set up a Share on one PC, and do normal Share transfers. The device comes with software (which you may or may not like). The USB3 version does around 40MB/sec. A GbE Ethernet cable does 112MB/sec. The USB2 version does pretty well considering the 30MB/sec limit. USB3 puts the "blob" on one end of the cable. https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-.../dp/B00ZR1AD4A USB2 has the "blob" in the middle of the cable. https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Tran.../dp/B005OTPVMY ****** The USB2 cable will work, as long as it has the "blob" in the center. If you find a cable with no "blob", it could be a non-compliant passive cable of some sort (which won't work). The cable works like this. Each USB computer "thinks" it is talking to a mailbox peripheral. The "blob" is like two back-to-back peripherals. USB2 does polled transfers and checks for something in the mailbox, regularly. +--------------+ USB2 computer ---+----| Mailbox -- |----+-------USB2 computer | +--------------+ | | | | +--------------+ | +----| -- Mailbox |----+ +--------------+ This flavor of USB device, may violate the grounding principles of USB. Normally, a lot of peripherals would be electrically floating. Since two desktops with hard grounds are involved sometimes, there could be a problem if the ground potential of the two desktop PCs is different. If a laptop is involved, you can run it on battery while doing the transfer. With the two desktop PCs, you could run them off the same power strip to keep the ground potentials the same. The day the USB3 one does more than 112MB/sec, is the day I will be buying one... :-) Paul |
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Connecting two Win 64 PCs with USB2 cable
On 09/12/2018 23:59, cameo wrote:
I don't want to try this before I ask here. If I connected my 64-bit Win7 and Win10 laptops with a male-male USB2 cable, would I be able to see the files of each laptop on a the file explorers on both PCs? If so, would they act in a master-slave manner? How about moving files from one laptop to the other through the USB2 cable or a software like Allway Sync? Presumably you have access to the internet via a router with LAN Ports &/or WiFi, in which case the best, and probably the easiest also, way of connecting them is via ethernet cables, one to each PC from the router, or failing that via WiFi. If you aren't using such a router and do not have one lying around unused, then you may just be able to connect the PCs directly via an ethernet cable, which, unless the LAN ports on both (or perhaps only one) PCs are auto-sensing, which these days many are, may have to be a cross-over ethernet cable. Once connected by such a cable, each PC should assign itself a random IP address in the link local address range: 169.254.*.* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address Whichever of the above ways you choose to link the PCs, you will then have to set up Windows to share *securely* one or more folders, and, although the following is not what you asked, I make no apologies for going through it, because the procedure seems to be generally insufficiently known and understood: 1) Ensure that at least one common user account exists on each PC - in other words, same username, same password. 2) Go into Control Panel, Network and sharing centre, Advanced Sharing settings, and Turn on password protected sharing. 3) Create shared folders on each PC. My advice to someone not well versed in this would be to not to use any existing folder, but create one off the root directory specifically for sharing files, and then only files deliberately moved or copied into that folder will be visible by the common username logged into other PCs. Once you have a suitable folder, rt-click it, and choose Share with, Advanced sharing (twice), and enable Share this folder. Click Permissions, remove all the default permissions, which are too lax, and replace them as follows: Administrators and System Full Control common username(s) Either Change or Read 4) Depending on what folder you are sharing, you may also have to set the file and folder permissions to those above, which is why it's a good idea to use a special folder of your own creation if you are inexperienced at this sort of thing. Again, rt-click the folder that you wish to share, choose Properties, and then Security, and set the same permissions as above. |
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Connecting two Win 64 PCs with USB2 cable
On 12/9/2018 4:26 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
cameo wrote: I don't want to try this before I ask here. If I connected my 64-bit Win7 and Win10 laptops with a male-male USB2 cable, would I be able to see the files of each laptop on a the file explorers on both PCs? If so, would they act in a master-slave manner? How about moving files from one laptop to the other through the USB2 cable or a software like Allway Sync? https://www.easeus.com/pc-transfer/f...to-pc-usb.html As noted, "Insert the installation disk that was packaged with the USB cable". The physical link is just that and only that. You still need software on both computers to use that physical link. Sometimes the device provides that, like when plugging in a smartphone into a USB port on a PC. However, you don't just grab some general-use USB cable sitting in a storage drawer. That could burn out the USB controllers in one or both of your computers. You need a *bridged* USB cable. https://www.hardwaresecrets.com/conn...usb-usb-cable/ Example: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9SIAA0C5301504 (ships from China, so expect a 45-day delay to get through Customs) https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9SIABMK5CF7803 (ships from USA) What you find depends on your search criteria. At 1000 Mbps for a network connection (versus 480 Mbps for USB2), you sure your computers aren't connected to a network where you could use file sharing in both? Thanks for the tip on cable sources. I also found one on Amazon (Plugable) and as a Prime customer, I can get it fast. As my PCs are indeed networked as you guessed and I used to copy files over that network until the Ethernet connector stopped working on my older laptop. I can still network it via WiFi, but it's just much slower than the direct Ethernet connection was. So that's why I want to try USB2-to-USB2 connection now. |
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Connecting two Win 64 PCs with USB2 cable
On 12/9/2018 6:54 PM, Paul wrote:
cameo wrote: I don't want to try this before I ask here. If I connected my 64-bit Win7 and Win10 laptops with a male-male USB2 cable, would I be able to see the files of each laptop on a the file explorers on both PCs? If so, would they act in a master-slave manner? How about moving files from one laptop to the other through the USB2 cable or a software like Allway Sync? Thanks. That's called a Laplink (USB transfer) cable. Prolific makes one of the chips for that. Drivers for the device, at one time supported networking (IP addresses and so on), as well as an FTP-like GUI for transferring. Then the USB.org standardized this custom design, and there should be a Class driver in Windows for it. The minus side is, maybe you don't get the same usage options. http://prolificusa.com/news/prolific...e-transfer-ic/ ** "The PL2701 is a single-chip SuperSpeed USB 3.0 *** Host-to-Host bridge controller IC. specially designed to *** connect two USB Host devices such as Desktop/Laptop PC" If it supports networking with IP addresses and so on, and ICS (internet connection sharing) assigned 192.168.1.1, then you can probably do regular File Sharing, set up a Share on one PC, and do normal Share transfers. The device comes with software (which you may or may not like). The USB3 version does around 40MB/sec. A GbE Ethernet cable does 112MB/sec. The USB2 version does pretty well considering the 30MB/sec limit. USB3 puts the "blob" on one end of the cable. https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-.../dp/B00ZR1AD4A USB2 has the "blob" in the middle of the cable. https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Tran.../dp/B005OTPVMY ****** The USB2 cable will work, as long as it has the "blob" in the center. If you find a cable with no "blob", it could be a non-compliant passive cable of some sort (which won't work). The cable works like this. Each USB computer "thinks" it is talking to a mailbox peripheral. The "blob" is like two back-to-back peripherals. USB2 does polled transfers and checks for something in the mailbox, regularly. ************************ +--------------+ ** USB2 computer ---+----|* Mailbox -- |----+-------USB2 computer ******************* |*** +--------------+*** | ******************* |*********************** | ******************* |*** +--------------+*** | ******************* +----| -- Mailbox* |----+ ************************ +--------------+ This flavor of USB device, may violate the grounding principles of USB. Normally, a lot of peripherals would be electrically floating. Since two desktops with hard grounds are involved sometimes, there could be a problem if the ground potential of the two desktop PCs is different. If a laptop is involved, you can run it on battery while doing the transfer. With the two desktop PCs, you could run them off the same power strip to keep the ground potentials the same. The day the USB3 one does more than 112MB/sec, is the day I will be buying one... :-) ** Paul That Plugable cable does not look USB2 when you look into its connector: it's white, not blue. The only bridge cables I see with blue connectors are all USB3. I wonder how they would work between two USB2 ports. |
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Connecting two Win 64 PCs with USB2 cable
On 12/10/2018 3:58 AM, Java Jive wrote:
On 09/12/2018 23:59, cameo wrote: I don't want to try this before I ask here. If I connected my 64-bit Win7 and Win10 laptops with a male-male USB2 cable, would I be able to see the files of each laptop on a the file explorers on both PCs? If so, would they act in a master-slave manner? How about moving files from one laptop to the other through the USB2 cable or a software like Allway Sync? Presumably you have access to the internet via a router with LAN Ports &/or WiFi, in which case the best, and probably the easiest also, way of connecting them is via ethernet cables, one to each PC from the router, or failing that via WiFi. If you aren't using such a router and do not have one lying around unused, then you may just be able to connect the PCs directly via an ethernet cable, which, unless the LAN ports on both (or perhaps only one) PCs are auto-sensing, which these days many are, may have to be a cross-over ethernet cable.* Once connected by such a cable, each PC should assign itself a random IP address in the link local address range: 169.254.*.* ****https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address Whichever of the above ways you choose to link the PCs, you will then have to set up Windows to share *securely* one or more folders, and, although the following is not what you asked, I make no apologies for going through it, because the procedure seems to be generally insufficiently known and understood: ****1)*** Ensure that at least one common user account exists on each PC* - in other words, same username, same password. ****2)*** Go into Control Panel, Network and sharing centre, Advanced Sharing settings, and Turn on password protected sharing. ****3)*** Create shared folders on each PC.* My advice to someone not well versed in this would be to not to use any existing folder, but create one off the root directory specifically for sharing files, and then only files deliberately moved or copied into that folder will be visible by the common username logged into other PCs.* Once you have a suitable folder, rt-click it, and choose Share with, Advanced sharing (twice), and enable Share this folder.* Click Permissions, remove all the default permissions, which are too lax, and replace them as follows: ****Administrators and System*** Full Control ****common username(s)******* Either Change or Read ****4)*** Depending on what folder you are sharing, you may also have to set the file and folder permissions to those above, which is why it's a good idea to use a special folder of your own creation if you are inexperienced at this sort of thing.* Again, rt-click the folder that you wish to share, choose Properties, and then Security, and set the same permissions as above. Those last steps are complicated indeed. Even if I learn them I would probably forget the procedure next time I would need them. It's then easier to get a large capacity thumb drive and use that as a transfer medium. BTW, I used to be able to use Allway Sync software easily without any permission issues until some MS update which must have tightened up the permissions, and I was no longer able to transfer some files from Win7 to Win10. I tried various permission changes but they were just not intuitive enough for me and gave up on it. I just don't want to spend a significant time of my life to read user instructions any more after spending decades in software development. So I know what intuitive user interface is. |
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cameo wrote:
That Plugable cable does not look USB2 when you look into its connector: it's white, not blue. The only bridge cables I see with blue connectors are all USB3. I wonder how they would work between two USB2 ports. Check the reviews and see if you see any failing to work on USB2. The existing customers should already have noticed, if there is a problem. On this sample datasheet, it says "USB3/USB2 PHY", which implies all nine pins are functional on the blue ones. http://www.prolific.com.tw/ShowProductPDF.aspx?p_id=247 Paul |
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cameo wrote:
On 12/9/2018 4:26 PM, VanguardLH wrote: cameo wrote: I don't want to try this before I ask here. If I connected my 64-bit Win7 and Win10 laptops with a male-male USB2 cable, would I be able to see the files of each laptop on a the file explorers on both PCs? If so, would they act in a master-slave manner? How about moving files from one laptop to the other through the USB2 cable or a software like Allway Sync? https://www.easeus.com/pc-transfer/f...to-pc-usb.html As noted, "Insert the installation disk that was packaged with the USB cable". The physical link is just that and only that. You still need software on both computers to use that physical link. Sometimes the device provides that, like when plugging in a smartphone into a USB port on a PC. However, you don't just grab some general-use USB cable sitting in a storage drawer. That could burn out the USB controllers in one or both of your computers. You need a *bridged* USB cable. https://www.hardwaresecrets.com/conn...usb-usb-cable/ Example: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9SIAA0C5301504 (ships from China, so expect a 45-day delay to get through Customs) https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9SIABMK5CF7803 (ships from USA) What you find depends on your search criteria. At 1000 Mbps for a network connection (versus 480 Mbps for USB2), you sure your computers aren't connected to a network where you could use file sharing in both? Thanks for the tip on cable sources. I also found one on Amazon (Plugable) and as a Prime customer, I can get it fast. As my PCs are indeed networked as you guessed and I used to copy files over that network until the Ethernet connector stopped working on my older laptop. I can still network it via WiFi, but it's just much slower than the direct Ethernet connection was. So that's why I want to try USB2-to-USB2 connection now. I still remember the old joke that a truckload of tapes could have higher bandwidth than any network. A truckload (say about 500 cartridges) of a palm-sized 330 TB tape cartridge would be 165,000 TB or 161 PB delivered from the archive value to the computer room in an hour has a bandwidth of 46 TBps, or 367 Tbps, or 375,467 Gbps -- but that's just for delivery since reading any tape will be slow. At home, I preferred wired networking. Easier to setup at each host (after you're done wiring your home - which, for me, was easy with an unfinished basement room and suspended ceilings in the other rooms). Didn't know you were stuck using wi-fi. Does your laptop's wi-fi support the 5 GHz range? That would faster than using the 2.4 GHz band in the wi-fi router. |
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Connecting two Win 64 PCs with USB2 cable
cameo wrote:
That Plugable cable does not look USB2 when you look into its connector: it's white, not blue. The only bridge cables I see with blue connectors are all USB3. I wonder how they would work between two USB2 ports. Seems conflicting. "Does not look USB2" because it has a white spacer inside the USB connector. "Blue connectors are all USB3." Okay, so the one candidate cable is not blue (USB3), but white (USB2), so it "should look USB2". Typically, USB2 connectors have a white-colored spacer and USB3 connectors have a blue-colored spacer. I have seen a black-colored spacer in USB2 connectors. You can see the space in the type-A connectors. Actually white was supposed to identify USB1 connectors, so the color scheme should be: - USB-1: white. - USB-2: black. - USB-3: blue. - Orange: The connector does not power off during standby and may have a higher current output, like 2.1A, to charge phones faster that will take the higher load. The small ones don't have spacer, so hopefully they put some color on the cord, strain relief, connector shell, or printing on the shell or cable sheath, like "USB3), to help identify the USB type. Because the type-A USB connector is square and the connection PCB is in the middle, I've seen unpolarized USB type-A connectors that simply left out the spacer that fills one-half of the recess inside the connector. there's only 4 signals: 5V, sig+, sig-, and ground. You'd think using a non-spacer'ed connector would result in sending 5V to the device's ground and ground the device's 5V line; however, the circuitry inside the non-polarized connector detects which line should have 5V and ground. Doesn't matter if the differential sig+ and sig- lines are reversed as they present a differential signal between them (used to cancel any induced RF). If that reversible connector's logic fails, you could burn up your USB device. |
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Connecting two Win 64 PCs with USB2 cable
cameo wrote:
The only bridge cables I see with blue connectors are all USB3. I wonder how they would work between two USB2 ports. USB3 cables work in USB2 ports. https://www.techspot.com/guides/235-...-about-usb-30/ "Dubbed SuperSpeed USB, this new version promises a tenfold leap forward in transfer speeds as well as improved capabilities, all while maintaining compatibility with USB 2.0 devices." "It's backwards compatible. Your existing USB 2.0 gear will work on version 3.0 ports and vice versa." There are different versions of each type of USB connector which confuses the issue. See the chart at: https://www.lifewire.com/usb-physica...-chart-2624585 My guess for your unidentified candidate for an active USB cable is that it has USB type-A connectors at each end, and the chart is blue in all squares for USB speed support. |
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Connecting two Win 64 PCs with USB2 cable
VanguardLH wrote:
cameo wrote: That Plugable cable does not look USB2 when you look into its connector: it's white, not blue. The only bridge cables I see with blue connectors are all USB3. I wonder how they would work between two USB2 ports. Seems conflicting. "Does not look USB2" because it has a white spacer inside the USB connector. "Blue connectors are all USB3." Okay, so the one candidate cable is not blue (USB3), but white (USB2), so it "should look USB2". Typically, USB2 connectors have a white-colored spacer and USB3 connectors have a blue-colored spacer. I have seen a black-colored spacer in USB2 connectors. You can see the space in the type-A connectors. Actually white was supposed to identify USB1 connectors, so the color scheme should be: - USB-1: white. - USB-2: black. - USB-3: blue. - Orange: The connector does not power off during standby and may have a higher current output, like 2.1A, to charge phones faster that will take the higher load. The small ones don't have spacer, so hopefully they put some color on the cord, strain relief, connector shell, or printing on the shell or cable sheath, like "USB3), to help identify the USB type. Because the type-A USB connector is square and the connection PCB is in the middle, I've seen unpolarized USB type-A connectors that simply left out the spacer that fills one-half of the recess inside the connector. there's only 4 signals: 5V, sig+, sig-, and ground. You'd think using a non-spacer'ed connector would result in sending 5V to the device's ground and ground the device's 5V line; however, the circuitry inside the non-polarized connector detects which line should have 5V and ground. Doesn't matter if the differential sig+ and sig- lines are reversed as they present a differential signal between them (used to cancel any induced RF). If that reversible connector's logic fails, you could burn up your USB device. Some care should be exercised, as some USB transfer cables are *USB 1.1*. They made a ton of those! Watch out! They are, of course, crap! Much care must be exercised, like finding a customer comment on transfer rate, to make sure the cable does not contain one of the crappy chips. One maker of the USB 1.1 chips was kicked from the market because of a patent violation. But the remaining companies likely made a ton of those chips at the time, and you know how a chip which is a couple bucks cheaper, will attract vermin in manufacturing plants. That's why I have to keep my hands in my pockets at the computer store, because so many "impulse buys" contain stinko chips. They always put stinko products in easy reach. The transfer cables have a sordid history. Many many unhappy suckers, buying the wrong cable. It's like the video adapter cable that made Composite video, directly from a pin on a VGA connector. People used to buy those, they'd post in and ask "why doesn't this work?". Well, of course it doesn't work, because there is no official option to do it, and perhaps only one model of computer could use such a cable. Yet, the market was flooded with that cable, it was cheap, suckers would buy it, it would be "too bad, so sad" and into the landfill the cable would go. Virtually all of those cables shipped, went straight into the landfill. And that's the kind of manufacturing vermin I'm referring to - they know damn well the cable has no useful function whatsoever. And the manufacturer would have to make a thousand cables, to get enough money to buy a pack of smokes as profit. Paul |
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Video cables (was: Connecting two Win 64 PCs with USB2 cable)
In message , Paul
writes: [] Some care should be exercised, as some USB transfer cables are *USB 1.1*. They made a ton of those! Watch out! They are, of course, crap! Well, crap _speed_ - they probably work fine _as_ USB 1.1 (-: (Didn't even USB1 have two speeds - 12M and 1.5M come to mind?) [] It's like the video adapter cable that made Composite video, directly from a pin on a VGA connector. People used to buy those, they'd post in and ask "why doesn't this work?". Well, of course it doesn't work, because there is no official option to do it, and perhaps only one model of computer could use such a cable. Yet, the Yes, maybe one computer did composite on one of the pins. Even if it did work, you'd have to be running the computer in VGA with a 50 or 60 (to suit whatever you were feeding the composite in to) refresh market was flooded with that cable, it was cheap, suckers would buy it, it would be "too bad, so sad" and into the landfill the cable would go. Virtually all of those cables shipped, went straight into the landfill. And that's the kind of manufacturing vermin I'm referring to - they know damn well the cable has no useful function whatsoever. And the manufacturer would have to make a thousand cables, to get enough money to buy a pack of smokes as profit. Paul I once bought an HDMI to VGA cable - being puzzled even at the time, as AIUI one is digital and the other analogue! It didn't work, of course. I haven't thrown it out! -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf There's not an app for that. |
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
I once bought an HDMI to VGA cable - being puzzled even at the time, as AIUI one is digital and the other analogue! It didn't work, of course. I haven't thrown it out! Well, this could be interesting. Did you pay $100 (active) or $10 (surely not passive) ? Those would be old pricing. The active ones have dropped considerably in price. https://www.amazon.com/Moread-Gold-P.../dp/B00SW9JI9A They can run off the +5V pin on the HDMI connector. I don't know what the current flow limit is on that pin, as it's probably intended for powering the SDA/SCL/CEC plane. http://unitedtechnologies.com.pk/Nti/image/10ci.png Since the output is unprotected, the dongle is not allowed to "support" HDCP. If the OS has an issue with lack of proper HDCP support at 1920x1080 or higher, it has the option of "making the image fuzzy" during Hollywood movie playback. (The player program likely requests protection.) This is also why HDMI capture cards aren't supposed to support HDCP, and the front end chip is not supposed to have HDCP keys installed in it to make encrypted content capture possible. Paul |
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