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I don't think this guy understands USB. It isn't a matter of not having passthrough connectors, it's a matter of one device per port is how it fundamentally wor

I don't think this guy understands USB. It isn't a matter of not having passthrough connectors, it's a matter of one device per port is how it fundamentally works. Unless he is planning to put a small 2-port hub in each connector (one for the device, one for the downstream port), this kind of thing just won't work. I'm guessing this is an issue of an industrial designer thinking "those silly computer engineers, why didn't they think to add passthrough?" without understanding how USB works.

axod 17y ago
Surely a 2 port hub would work and would be simple enough? That's how I assumed it'd work. Obviously you'd run out of power after 3 or 4 maybe, but that'd be enough to be useful. You can get pretty tiny 4 port hubs now.
- pmjordan 17y ago
  From the Wikipedia page on USB: Additional USB hubs may be included in the tiers, allowing branching into a tree structure with up to five tier levels. So by "infinite" they mean "five", unless the connectors can make use of a non-standard communications mechanism between each other which makes them appear as only one big hub. The other downside of daisy-chaining is that you have to unplug everything to remove a lower-level device.
  - jules 17y ago
    And more than 5 of these sticking out of your device could easily break.
  - mmphosis 17y ago
    Up to 127 devices, including the hub devices, may be connected to a single host controller.