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Originally Posted by coldlegs
Peter
Have you managed to get a webcam running at full speed through the ethernet hub yet? I had a quick try today with a cheap ebay hub and although it recognised the camera and connected it to the pc, the pc did not do it's usual bing/bong and refused to accept it. If you succeeded please let me know how.
Cheers
Stephen
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Well, the short answer is NO. It's been disappointing to say the least. I have managed to get the hub to be visible if I connect it directly to my wireless router. But that's not what I wanted. I have a router that is designed to have 2 antennae so I have connected one of those to an external dish antenna that throws the Wi-Fi signal across the paddock to my observatory where I have a corresponding antenna to pick up that signal and send it to an acces point and a switch inside the obs so the various computers in the obs can also connect to the internet and one-another. That part of it works fine.
BUT when I connect the USB hub into the network by plugging it into the switch in the obs it is visible to the computers but any devices plugged into it shpw up as being in another network segment and therefore not accessible. They are visible but n ot accessible. I haven't been able to get any further than that to date.
But even when I can get access to devices using these hubs, the only devices that will talk to me are memory systems - either external HDs or Thumb Drives. And not all external HDs either. Some are visible but I get a message saying they have to be formatted before I can access them. But I know they are fine and full of data.
SO these are of pretty limited value to me so far. I'm using 2 different brands but the results are pretty much the same for both.
Peter.
