Sometimes you want to share a large file from your PC to your friend’s
PC or vice versa and you don’t have external hard drive or any device with a
large memory space to accumulate the files you want to transfer or receive.
Most of the time I have been asking myself if it’s possible to do this with
just a USB cable without being connected to the network using RJ 45 cables the
answer is yes. But don’t be too happy since you don’t use a normal USB to USB
port cause it won’t work, not at all.
There
are several different kinds of USB-USB cables on the market. The one used to
connect two PCs is called “bridged” (or “USB networking cable”), because it has
a small electronic circuit in the middle allowing the two PCs to talk to each
other. There are called A/A USB cables that, in spite of having two standard
USB connectors at each end, don’t have a bridge chip and cannot be used to
connect two PCs. In fact, if you use an A/A USB cable, you can burn the USB
ports of your computers or even their power supplies. So, these A/A USB cables
are completely useless. A/B USB cables are used to connect your computer to
peripherals such as printers and scanners, so they also won’t meet your needs.