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bigbop · 10-01-07, 09:13 AM

[QUOTE=Yarrenbool;1059154680]Thanks for passing along this info - sale good 'till Oct 3rd.

A quick question:

You say you can connect a USB drive but on the Infonec site it says that the USB is 1.1. Doesn't that make any connected USB drive painfully slow?

It does seem strange that it offers WiFi "g" but only 1.1 on USB. Perhaps an error on the Infonec site?
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Yeah, the design of this device is actually about 2.5 years old and it uses a MIPS uP SOC (System On a Chip). It's the same chip used in several Asus wireless routers. It was designed with 2 - USB 1.1 host interfaces.
Yes, 1.1 isn't as fast as USB 2.0 specs but for data streaming over WiFi, it's fine a 12Mbit/sec. You can even boot the unit from the USB host device (with the 3rd party firmware), and the unit doesn't need an internal drive to work.

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bigbop Aximsite Veteran Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Toronto Posts: 1,093 Device: A1200,Moto-Q Carrier: Rogers Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	[QUOTE=Yarrenbool;1059154680]Thanks for passing along this info - sale good 'till Oct 3rd. A quick question: You say you can connect a USB drive but on the Infonec site it says that the USB is 1.1. Doesn't that make any connected USB drive painfully slow? It does seem strange that it offers WiFi "g" but only 1.1 on USB. Perhaps an error on the Infonec site? .[/QUOTE] Yeah, the design of this device is actually about 2.5 years old and it uses a MIPS uP SOC (System On a Chip). It's the same chip used in several Asus wireless routers. It was designed with 2 - USB 1.1 host interfaces. Yes, 1.1 isn't as fast as USB 2.0 specs but for data streaming over WiFi, it's fine a 12Mbit/sec. You can even boot the unit from the USB host device (with the 3rd party firmware), and the unit doesn't need an internal drive to work.