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Michael A. Terrell Michael A. Terrell is offline
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Default Another stupid question


myfathersson wrote:

I note that no one has answered the question about what on earth those
USB ports on (eg) Motorola cable boxes in the States can be used for?
Are they really disabled?



No, they are not disabled. They are a slow, USB 1.0 port for
computers without Ethernet. You had to install the driver software on
the computer, and it could only be used by a single PC. It was a royal
pain in the ass. I still have the CD-ROMs for the eary Toshiba and the
current Webstar cable modems. They tell you right up front that the USB
inteface is nearly useless.


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