Convert To USB

USB or Ethernet?

If you are wondering what the differences is between the two systems, here are the main differences. USB is a host to peripheral standard which means that you have a complex host (your computer) and a less complex peripheral (mouse, keyboard, serial adapter) on the other end. Ethernet is peer to peer, this means that  all devices are the same on the bus. USB can power devices up to a point. Ethernet usually does not have power. In USB the host controls the bus completely, in ethernet everyone is on a equal basis, so you have “collisions” of data, where one devices tries to talk just as another does. This gets detected and sorted out by a random back off interval to allow one device to use the bus at a time.

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