Infinite USB Cables

[douggie305]

I was looking at stuff on KickStarter and found this fairly neat USB cable concept, what do you guys think?

 

I think if the micro USB and the female USB are around $10 each for the final product I'd buy two or three of them just for my old Sony laptop that has 3 total USB ports but 2 of them have failed over the last 6 years. I use the laptop to little to justify buying a new one. But if I want to move data between 2 external drives while using the laptop, I need to move the data to the local drive first then swap external drives for the final move, and that's just one of the situations I would like to have something like this for.

 

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/668098663/infiniteusb-one-usb-port-unlimited-devices

[bluescreeny]

Excuse me if I missed something, but wouldn't it be better just to buy a USB hub and not have this large, easily breakable tower of wires sticking out of your machine. I guess its fine with just two of these, but more than that you'd risk breaking your port every time you move.

[Ostwind]

Clever but only a good idea if you stack a few of them, anymore than five is asking for a damaged USB port.

[Enderman]

Computer USB ports have a limited bandwidth, so not its not infinite because only a certain number of devices can be working at one time.

This is why there arent any 100 USB port hubs.

[sirtoby]

Computer USB ports have a limited bandwidth, so not its not infinite because only a certain number of devices can be working at one time.

This is why there arent any 100 USB port hubs.

Well, technically USB supports up to 127 devices per host controller, but the biggest hub I've seen so far was a 50 port one. 

The cables seem like a good idea, until you think about it more. You can do the stuff they do with a hub and don't have the risk of breaking your usb port.

[manikyath]

i'm pretty sure theres a limit to how many hubs you can stack, hence this isnt really "infinite" if i recall, the farthest you can go is 4 or 5 hubs behind each other.

[Cwazywazy]

Or. Buy a laptop with more than one or two USB plugs. (Lookin at you Macbook.)

[Enderman]

Well, technically USB supports up to 127 devices per host controller, but the biggest hub I've seen so far was a 50 port one. 

The cables seem like a good idea, until you think about it more. You can do the stuff they do with a hub and don't have the risk of breaking your usb port.

That depends on the device. A webcam will use more bandwidth than a USB drive, and there is a bandwidth limit of I think 6 or 8 lanes per port.

The 50 port hubs are for charging, or stuff like USB ASIC miners.

[douggie305]

Clever but only a good idea if you stack a few of them, anymore than five is asking for a damaged USB port.

I totally agree for 3 devices (2 of these cable)  its a great idea but any more then that and you risk damage to the USB ports. 

[Ostwind]

I totally agree for 3 devices (2 of these cable)  its a great idea but any more then that and you risk damage to the USB ports. 

I think it would be smarter to use it on a USB hub that had the ports arranged vertically, instead of horizontally. That way you have less of a chance of damaging the ports, hubs similar to this one with only a few ports would be idea for that connector as it would add more ports but not add that much of a risk of damage.

[vembutech]

Its really a good idea..