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"However, with a USB link cable, a program which supports data transfer using that cable must be used."

Why is this, does anybody know? In Device Manager it shows up as a laplink cable, but can't be accessed by the usual DCC wizard. Unfortunately my client purchased a Gigaware USB Transfer Cable and I assumed it would include drivers for network mode and not just link mode(my fault). That's not the case, and the software included for link mode is confusing to me, let alone my client, who is quite computer illiterate. If USB-USB bridge cables like these are LapLink cables while in link mode why can't they be used like the old style laplink/null modem cables? Granted I'm used to simply using these things in network mode this time I do not have this luxury. Yes, I know I should probably just admit defeat and get a crossover ethernet cable or firewire cable, but at this point I just have to know why. 128.122.24.15 (talk) 17:00, 4 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

It was Prolific's marketing decision in USB 1.1 days to market them separately. All you need is just to change .inf file of networking mode drivers to include your VID/PID --A194 44 217 5 (talk) 16:16, 27 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

I added the following to the wiki:

However, there is a way to get a Direct cable connection to work on a 32-bit Vista (under the 16-bit MS-DOS subsystem - NTVDM, useing a MS-DOS program like Conex)^[1] This is not possible on a 64-bit Visa as it doesn't have the 16-bit MS-DOS subsystem.

But Xpclient removed it saying:

This is about the Windows feature and not similar third party apps

I feel that information about this should be available on Wikipedia for people looking for a way to make a Direct cable connection on vista.

If I can't add information about this in the main wiki can I added a link to 'Keith B's Tech Blog' in the 'External links'?

What does everyone think?

JoseySmith (talk) 17:11, 15 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hello. The wikilink (Conex) you linked to does not point to an article on the terminal utility you wrote about. It appears to be an old DOS application that does not even seem to have its own web page and does not support long file names. It is not a viable replacement for the Windows feature described in this article. I removed it because the software you mentioned is not notable enough to warrant a place in this article. Wikipedia is not intended to be a directory and is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Please keep the article relevant to the topic. Any additional third party resource may be added as an external link (but others may remove it is not notable enough or appears to be a spam link). - xpclient ^Talk 18:19, 15 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi, how about something like:

Windows Vista drops support for the Direct cable connection feature (however, there are third party application to use Direct cable connection on 16-bit vista) as ethernet, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth have become ubiquitous on current generation computers. To transfer files and settings, Windows Vista includes Windows Easy Transfer, which uses a proprietary USB-to-USB bridge cable made by Belkin. Or is this still not relevant to the topic enough? Sorry, I'm very new here and don't know alot about how to word things on Wikipedia. JoseySmith (talk) 09:39, 16 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

The knowledge base article linked to in the DCC with USB had been removed. I found the equivalent article in the Taiwanese support site. Since the article is only being linked to for the picture of the USB link cable should I just direct link to the picture itself, find another picture, or delete the reference altogether? ARK ALPHA (talk) 18:38, 4 February 2015 (UTC)Reply