Re: convert between ethernet and usb
On Saturday 07 November 2015 18:48:34 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 07 November 2015 09:44:34 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Saturday 07 November 2015 13:59:47 Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> > > On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 11:21:18 +0000
> > >
> > > Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > !!! In which country do ordinary hardware stores stock _slightly_
> > > > arcane IT products?? Or, come to that, any IT products to speak
> > > > of?
> > >
> > > Living in Darkest Paraguay, I have had no problem getting Trendnet
> > > USBToRJ45 adapters sent from Amazon.
> >
> > I don't regard Amazon as an ordinary hardware store. You have
> > over-snipped the quotation. I could easily buy one reasonably locally
> > - but not in a hardware store, ordinary or otherwise. The OP said: "
> > You could find it on an ordinary hardware store. It's really cheap."
> > Cheap is relative too.
> >
> > Lisi
>
> Lisi, you are in jolly Olde England, where the populous expects to have
> to go to a specialty supplier for such.
Yes - and is less rich than you lot! Cheap is relative. Though I have found
some after all this on Amazon at around £10 (ten UKP). The most local I
could find, which is certainly not our local hardware store, but is not a
specialist shop either, nor even in my village, (larger than your town, Gene)
had two: one at £79.00 and one at £29.00. And it is a train ride away. The
nearest computer store, which would certainly have one, needs a taxi. There
are plenty in London, of course. Note, pounds not dollars. Mind you, the
computer shop has a good range:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/search.html?s=usb%20to%20ethernet
And fairly cheaply. Provided that you have a reasonable income, which not
everyone has.
Lisi
> But lets put this in the Paraguay context from long distance crystal ball
> gazing.
>
> As an old Iowa farm kid, if the Monkey-Ward or Snears & Row-it-back
> catalog didn't have it, and you had already checked the local hardware
> store, you did without, but I'd suspect his local hardware store in
> Paraguay would be at least as well stocked as our small town (pop 270)
> hardware store was in the 1950's era. I don't recall ever going in it
> and coming out without a workable solution for whatever this guy, who
> was a "geek" before the word was invented, was making at the moment.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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