Plastic Covers or Plugs for USB, Firewire & Ethernet Inputs?

Anyone know of or have any type of plastic (clear or black) covers or plugs for the USB, Firewire and Ethernet inputs? Thanks.

Hello Shatterbox,
I think i may have found what you are looking for here:
Portectorz
Hope this is what you are looking for.
-RC

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About 6 months ago my ethernet port was fried when a lightning bolt sent a surge through the wire. Since then i have been using my family's wireless network, but now that I am back in school and away from home, i don't have that luxury. So, i've been looking for a Mac compatible USB/FireWire ethernet adapter and have had no luck. If anyone knows where I can find one, let me know.

Hi Kllru,
Welcome to the Discussions.
The following link has info on compatible adapters as well as a driver for OS X.
http://www.sustworks.com/site/newsusbethernet.html
John

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Hi,
I own an MSI 845PE Max2 motherboard. This motherboard comes with several brackets for USB, Firewire and Audio. As I can't waist that much PCI slots in order to use the brackets, and as those ports would be much easier to use if they were on the front of the case, I thought of modifying one of the 5,25" bays cover of my full tower case (Dragon DA-01BD) to hold all the ports on those brackets.
Unfortunatelly the cable length of those brackets isn't enough to reach the 5,25" bays, so I have to extend those cables. In order to do that I have to find similar cables/connectors, and that is where my problem lies.
In order to show those connectors, I took a picture and made it available on the web, so that you can see it:
According to a person that I spoke to, these are IDC connectors.
Here's a description of each connector, from left to right:
- Firewire (green, 10 pins)
- USB 1 (black, 10 pins)
- USB 2 (blue, 10 pins)
- Audio (black, 12 pins)
Each connector has one disabled (covered) pin.
In terms of size, each connector is aproximatelly 1 cm wide (the sound connector is a few millimeters wider).
My question would be where can I buy this, but as I'm from Portugal and most of you are not, it would be rather expensive to order this thing outside my country.
So what I would like to ask is if do you know any reference for those connectors. I'm looking for both male and female connectors, as I want to leave the cable/connectors of the brackets intact (no modifications), meaning that I want to create an extension with a male on one tip and a female on the other tip of the extension cable.
Best regards,
Norberto Henriques

Hi Norberto,
You might be able to get longer cables from a computer wholesaler (usually via a retail store), but it's doubtful.
The connectors in the photo are a variation on a "Molex" connector. They come as an empty housing, with separate pins (supplied on a strip), which can either be soldered to the cable, or crimped with an expensive tool. The pins are then pushed into the housing in the right places. I use the single row types, but I've never tried to buy the dual row types in Australia.
The closest readily available connector is usually called an IDC Socket, and is designed to be used with ribbon cable (these are used on CD-ROM drive connections, for example). They can be fitted with a bench vice if you are careful, but they don't usually come in 12-way (10 ways are common, so are 16 ways, with 14 way less common).
The main problem is the male connectors - they don't make male connectors designed for cable mounting. The closest you'll get is a header designed for PCB mounting, which you'll have to solder wires to individual pins, and then wrap in insulation tape.
Try a shop which sells electronic components to hobbyists - whatever the Portuguese equivalent of Tandy / Radio Shack (or preferably a cheaper version!).
Good luck!
Mike Phillips

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I am looking at PCI cards for USB, firewire, and esata and non of them I've seen mention this. Is it safe to assume that most of them truly have an individual bus per port? In other words, if I plug a slower device into one port, will the other ports generally continue to operate at higher speeds? For instance, if a card has three FW 800 ports, but I plug a 400 device into one of them, will the other two continue to operate at 800 speeds?
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It's not a good assumption. Read the adapter's complete specifications carefully, or if you already have the adapter, you can look at the system profiler to see how many separate buses it has.

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I'm about to shift my studio into a new room, and have the oppourtunity to stick my G5 and external drives into a corridor cupboard adjacent to where my studio is - in other words, noise free bliss! But....
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I was just researching the very same thing, though it does not sound like my studio setup will be as sweet as yours. Here are a few things I ran across:
FIREWIRE-
"The maximum cable length specified by the IEEE1394 standard is 4.5 meters. However, more recent tests have shown that certain high quality firewire cables can achieve longer lengths without significantly affecting transmission quality. Several manufacturers sell firewire cables longer than 5 meters (some up to 50 meters)."
~http://www.focusrite.com/answerbase/article.php?id=206
I found an example of a company who claims to sell a firewire cable of that length:
http://www.expansys.com/pf.aspx?i=102956
USB-
There is forum discussion on the topic I was reading yesterday:
http://www.everythingusb.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=804
But don't go past the 11th post or so, they go off on another subject... the use of hubs & the words "active extension" in that post caught my eye. A quick google search came up with this site:
http://www.everythingusb.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=804
There were a bunch sites with devices claiming to do this.
Finally I have this chart, which seems to support what what the articles say, without of course any other extension technology/solutions:
http://www.extron.com/company/article.aspx?id=dedigform10
I'm not making any claims at all about how true these sources are, I just have the same questions and decided to toss what I've been looking at into the discussion. Feel free anyone to jump in and tell me its all wrong - I'd love to hear whats right.
~sam

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I've tried the D-Link DGE-528T which is meant to be OSX compatible but to no avail. I get the 'The cable for the PCI Ethernet is not plugged in' message. I've then tried the Pluscom with Realtek 8169 chip and again, get the same message.
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The exhaustive list of devices supported by Time Machine amounts to the following:
AirPort Time Capsule's built-in hard disk (any model)
External USB hard disk drive connected to a Time Capsule (any model)
External USB hard disk drive connected to an AirPort Extreme (current model only)
A hard disk drive directly connected to your Mac
That is all.
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