What is a USB Adapter?
One of the most prevalent connection ports on today’s computers and peripheral devices is Universal Serial Bus (USB), and you can recognize a USB port or cable by its distinctive rectangular male or female end. The current version of USB is 2.0; previous versions are not compatible. If your desktop or laptop is a fairly new Macintosh, then you will have USB ports. Older Macs probably have something different. Windows machines switched to USB ports earlier than Macs, but some older PCs still have non-USB ports. One of the most common non-USB ports is the serial port. This kind of cable-port combination routinely has pins of varying numbers on cables that fit in corresponding numbers of holes in ports. Even some of the most recently manufactured computers have serial ports for connecting peripherals like printers and scanners. A problem can arise if you buy a newer computer and want to connect it to an older printer. The computer likely has a USB port, but the printer probably has a seri
It’s basically an antenna that sends out a wireless signal. This is for hard-wired networks where your cable comes in from the wall and into the modem, then you connect the modem to either a router or straight into your computer. You plug the USB adapter into your computer’s USB port. Your computer then acts as a middleman of sorts. It allows the USB adapter to tap into the Intrynet signal and then redistribute that signal to a wireless device. Because it’s using the PC as a conduit for the signal, it isn’t quite as reliable as the wireless router, but it does the job just fine. This should be an option for people who absolutely will not get (or have) a wireless router.
