Connecting CCR's

[overeazy]

OK I am trying to figure out how I am going to get everything connected this year. I run my shows off of my HP net book and it has 3 usb ports for me to use. I will be running 16 LOR control boxes

and 16 ccr's. Last year I ran all of my boxes off my USB485B. It has 2 cat 5 connectors coming off of it and was thinking I could run off all of my boxes from one connection and 4 of the ccr's off the

other. I know they would be on the same network but I need the other two usb ports to each run 6 ccr's on different networks. Will I have a problem doing it like that? thanks

[George Simmons]

You're going to need 3 separate networks. Sounds like a powered high-speed USB hub is in your future.

[bestone]

Go to Amazon and buy this hub. Then you won't have to worry about how many USB ports you have. I used this model in my display last year with 3 networks and 2 DMX universes with no issues.

http://www.amazon.co...eywords=usb hub

Edited August 26, 2012 by bestone

[overeazy]

So I will need 4 networks then? 2 for the 12 ccr tree, 1 for the 4 ccr circles and 1 for my boxes.

thanks think I will get that hub too.

[dgrant]

Someone correct me please if I'm not thinking correctly. That powered hub, allowing for 7 USB 2.0 ports is all nice but its fed from a single USB connection to the computer, therefore its actually 1 port being broken down into 7. The computer architecture can only send 1 serial data command to a single port at a time even though it happens at warp-speed, still just one command. I would think that a multiple port USB add-on card to the motherboard would be the way to go if it was a desktop but laptop, I've never come across something like that.

[overeazy]

If that is the case then I am better off going the way I was originally thinking. Maybe someone else can clear this up.

[PaulXmas]

The USB485B is still "ONE" network.

The 16 controllers are no problem on one network.

The 16 CCRs "might" need at least 4 networks (4 USB485) to work.

Using a ubs hub is fine to increase the number of usb ports.

[dgrant]

A USB hub will certainly expand a USB port to multiple ports without question. Now expanding a single port as seperate networks, I have my doubts as to the efficiency but truly, I don't know if this works for LOR controllers and CCR's. Those who have done this before will know what works and what doesn't. I'm a newbie as this is my first year out so I do not have the experience here yet but I do understand computers and how the architecture functions...lol, well, for the most part. Example being, I just learned they've come out with USB3.0 now which I know nothing about and saw that CPU's with more than 4 internal processors, are now up to 12 processors....things are happening so fast, I can't keep up with it all.