Wireless USB ( WUSB )

* I thought this might interest users both on land and on sail and motor yachts. Wireless USB - often you have to connect things such as a printer or a USB hard disk drive to your computer. Often it’s not convenient to locate that device close to the computer for the USB connection.

…enter Wireless USB ( WUSB )

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/608

Author: Gabriel Torres
Last Updated: August 20, 2008

Introduction
Wireless USB ( WUSB ) products are finally arriving at the market and in this article you will learn more about this technology and see some usage examples.

The goal of wireless USB is to connect peripherals such as printers, external hard disk drives, sound cards, media players and even video monitors to the PC wirelessly. This can be done by two forms. If the PC and/or the device don’t [sic: doesn’t] have native support to WUSB, you must install a dongle to convert a standard USB port into WUSB. If the PC and/or the device already have native support to WUSB - i.e. they come with a WUSB antenna - no extra device is needed. Up to 127 peripherals can be connected using a single antenna on the PC.

The maximum theoretical transfer rate from WUSB is the same as USB 2.0: 480 Mbps (60 MB/s) if the device is within 3 meters (9.84 feet) from the PC or 110 Mbps (13.75 MB/s) if the device is within 10 meters (32.8 feet) from the PC. As you can see, the more distant the devices are from the PC, lower is the transfer rate.

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