USB device question

lukin

Is there a USB device in existence which allows you connect one USB device to two computers?
I have recently installed skyDSL but it can't be networked so I would like to know if I could attach the skyDSL USB box to two machines at the same time?
It would be like a network switch but with USB ports on it instead of RJ45 ports. I looked at eBay but they had nothing like what I want. I assume it doesn't exist.

Edit; actually, it does: a bit expensive though;
http://www.expansys.ie/p.aspx?i=120877

Anti

This is not a tweaking/modding issue.

Moved to somewhere random.

hopeful

One option...the cheapest....would be to network the two pc's using a crossover cable then setup the second machine to use the first one's internet connection. I used to do this before I got a router.

lukin

hopeful wrote:

One option...the cheapest....would be to network the two pc's using a crossover cable then setup the second machine to use the first one's internet connection. I used to do this before I got a router.

That's actually what I wanted to do but couldn't because of some issues with Service Pack 2 on the two machines. I changed the name of one of them while I was trying to network it and next thing I couldn't log on to my skyDSL account and had to uninstall and re-install all the software again.
:mad:

subway

you could also buy a dsl router and replace the sky modem

you cant split usb like that, only one machine can control a usb device at a time

lukin

subway wrote:

you could also buy a dsl router and replace the sky modem

you cant split usb like that, only one machine can control a usb device at a time

I know yeah, I didn't buy the one off expansys, I got one in Maplin's instead for €41.50. You can attach up to four devices and attach it to two machines.
You press a button to switch the devices attached between the two machines.
I don't think a DSL router will work cause the skyDSL box is attached by USB to the lappie, not by RJ45.

subway

lukin wrote:

I know yeah, I didn't buy the one off expansys, I got one in Maplin's instead for €41.50. You can attach up to four devices and attach it to two machines.
You press a button to switch the devices attached between the two machines.
I don't think a DSL router will work cause the skyDSL box is attached by USB to the lappie, not by RJ45.

i meant to replace the sky modem altogether

lukin

subway wrote:

i meant to replace the sky modem altogether

But the only way you can connect the skyDSL modem is by double-clicking on it in Network Connections.

subway

you can replace the modem with a better one and set it up as a normal broadband connection.

lukin

subway wrote:

you can replace the modem with a better one and set it up as a normal broadband connection.

OK, I might do that when I have the moolah.