[BC]

I’m working away at getting things set up for imaging with the hope of connecting the mount, the camera and the webcam to a netbook via ~5m of cable. I have successfully got Stellarium Scope working fine with the EQ6. Despite having 3 USB ports on the netbook, Stellarium Scope only works on one of the USBs. The 500D will also only work on one USB; the same one as Stellarium Scope. The webcam operates on the other USBs just fine.

Option 1:
- Find a way to make either device operational on a different USB
Question 1 – How would I do this?

Option 2:
- Use a USB hub at the scope to plug the 500D, EQ6 and webcam into,
and then just have one USB cable from the mount to the netbook

Question 2 – Can the relevant data travel down one USB cable via a hub? If this can work, it is certainly a tidier option than running 3 cables between mount and netbook


I visited Jaycar today and they have a 5m Active USB 2 Repeater cable $40. They also had a 10m Active USB 2 Repeater cable with 4 port hub at one end for $25, same brand and specs. This seems odd to be cheaper. Then there’s the USB extenders designed for Cat5 cable (up to 80m – overkill for me) for $100.

Any thoughts welcome,
Bruce