I don’t know much about cables so if type something wrong forgive me …

I was wondering around with some old stuff, and found this cable that is usb to usb “as shown in the image below”

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71hHpyqvvnS._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg

Now what i thought was that it might be used to connect 2 computers with each other so i tried that and connected 2 computers with each other using it and nothing happened Can anyone tell me what this cable is even used for ???

  • @kuneho@lemmy.world
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    41 year ago

    I had a cable like this, it was for an ancient Medion digital camera. No idea why they went with the full size USB female socket on the device, but it was just a simple USB cable that had male plugs on each end. Maybe it was cheaper, maybe it had debug purposes… we will never know.

    I also tried to connect two PCs with it, it was my very first thought when I saw that cable. Obviously, it didn’t work, nothing happened. Remember Total Commander had a “Connect two computers with USB” feature, was thinking maybe that will work with it, but nope… for that, a specialized USB cable/device was needed, not the one I had for the camera.