What is wireless USB?
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Wireless USB (WUSB) is a new wireless extension to USB intended to combine the speed and security of wired technology with the ease-of-use of wireless technology. WUSB is based on ultra wideband wireless technology defined by WiMedia (IEEE 802.15.3a, yet to be accepted), which operates in the range of 3.1–10.6 GHz.\n\nThe Wireless USB Promoter Group was formed in February 2004 to define the Wireless USB specification. The group consists of Agere Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, NEC Corporation, Philips and Samsung.\n\nWUSB offers bandwidths of 480 Mbit/s at three meters and 110 Mbit/s at 10 meters. WUSB uses a star topology with up to 127 devices. WUSB also supports so-called dual-role devices, which in addition to being a WUSB client device, can function as a host with limited capabilities. For example, a digital camera could act as a client when connected to a computer, and as a host when transferring pictures directly to a printer.\n\nWUSB will be used in devices that are now connected via regular USB cables, such as game controllers, printers, scanners, digital cameras, MP3 players, hard disks and flash drives, but it is also suitable for transferring parallel video streams.\n\nIn May 2005, the Wireless USB Promoter Group announced the completion of the Wireless USB specification. The first WUSB products hit the market at the end of 2005[citation needed]. Companies like LeCroy are supplying development support tools to facilitate early introduction of the technology.
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nope, a USB wireless adapter can only be used for a PC. the USB connection of a printer is NOT a wireless communication but a simple serial connection. you need either a wireless router with a built-in print server or a standalone wireless print server.\n\nrouter with integrated print server\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833127170\nstandalone wireless print server\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833124064
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you can create a wireless network using a usb drive, simply go to the control panel (if you are using windows xp) and click create a new network, the rest is explained there.
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a bluetooth mouse would use more power because it needs power to do the wireless thing, more enery is dispersed into the air, where a USB mouse the energy goes right through the cord.
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If your desktop and/or laptops have wifi receivers then you can use them anywhere in the house that gets the signal. You can purchase USB wifi adapters too. I use a USB one all the time for computers I am building that need to go online, I don't have to hook up any wires.
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Sounds like you are talking about the USB port and USB devices. Windows comes with a USB connection detection software that notifies the user when a device is plugged into, or unplugged from, a USB port.  That is so that people will know when a device is working and when it is not.
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The only way is to get something called a usb device server.\nThis enables the usb device (like a printer or any usb device) to be shared over a network.\nI know www.microcenter.com carries a few.
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no, not by the USB ports. a wired version is you use a switch.  if you will be using a wireless version, do get the wireles router it will be a better way .
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Universal Serial Bus (USB) provides a serial bus standard for connecting devices, usually to computers such as PCs and the Apple Macintosh, but is also becoming commonplace on video game consoles such as Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii, Sony's PlayStation 2, and PDAs, and even devices like televisions and home stereo equipment.\n\nThe radio spectrum-based USB implementation is known as Wireless USB.\n\nOverview\nA USB system has an asymmetric design, consisting of a host controller and multiple daisy-chained devices. Additional USB hubs may be included in the chain, allowing branching into a tree structure, subject to a limit of 5 levels of branching per controller. No more than 127 devices, including the bus devices, may be connected to a single host controller. Modern computers often have several host controllers, allowing a very large number of USB devices to be connected. USB cables do not need to be terminated. USB 2 uses bursts, unlike FireWire.\n\nDespite the capability of daisy-chaining several USB devices and that early USB announcements foresaw that each future USB device could replicate the USB port on itself and allow for a long chain of devices, this was never widespread for economical and technical reasons, and typically only USB hubs actually replicate and multiply USB ports, thus making most USB devices effectively "consuming" a USB port, disallowing daisychaining or shared use.\n\nUSB was designed to allow peripherals to be connected without the need to plug expansion cards into the computer's ISA, EISA, or PCI bus, and to improve plug-and-play capabilities by allowing devices to be hot-swapped (connected or disconnected without powering down or rebooting the computer). When a device is first connected, the host enumerates and recognises it, and loads the device driver it needs.\n\n \nA USB hubUSB can connect peripherals such as mice, keyboards, gamepads and joysticks, scanners, digital cameras, printers, external storage, networking components, etc. For many devices such as scanners and digital cameras, USB has become the standard connection method. USB is also used extensively to connect non-networked printers, replacing the parallel ports which were widely used; USB simplifies connecting several printers to one computer. As of 2004 there were about 1 billion USB devices in the world. As of 2005, the only large classes of peripherals that cannot use USB, because they need a higher data rate than USB can provide, are displays and monitors, and high-quality digital video components.\n\n\nStandardization\nThe design of USB is standardized by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), an industry standards body incorporating leading companies from the computer and electronics industries. Notable members have included Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Microsoft, Intel, and Agere.\n\nThe USB specification is at version 2.0 (with revisions) as of March 2006. Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, NEC, and Philips jointly led the initiative to develop a higher data transfer rate than the 1.1 specification. The USB 2.0 specification was released in April 2000 and was standardized by the USB-IF at the end of 2001. Previous notable releases of the specification were 0.9, 1.0, and 1.1. Equipment conforming with any version of the standard will also work with devices designed to any of the previous specifications (backwards compatibility).\n\nSmaller USB plugs and receptacles, called Mini-A and Mini-B, are also available, as specified by the On-The-Go Supplement to the USB 2.0 Specification. The specification is at revision 1.0a (Jan 2006).\n\nTechnical details\n \nPCB mounting female USB connectorsUSB connects several devices to a host controller through a chain of hubs. In USB terminology devices are referred to as functions, because in theory what we know as a device may actually host several functions, such as a router that is a Secure Digital Card reader at the same time. The hubs ar
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I use one USB adapter. Yes you need a Driver to install the Hardware as others do. It works almost like a PCI Wireless card. I do not prefer it coz it take my usb port, i prefer a PCI card. Networking and all is almost the same, no effect
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Look for an antenna sticking out of the back of it.  That's usually a suspect sign of a wireless card...\n\n...but if you want the long way, go to:\n\nStart -> Control Panel -> System -> Hardware Tab -> Device Manager button\n\nand look for anything that says "wireless".
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USB  stands for universal serial bus , a relatively new device interface, and not only can u put in a mouse or keyboard , or digital camera, video cam ,ect,ect, any device that sports a usb connector ,its also hot swappable , meaning u can plug in or unplug devices without reboot or restart ,and no you won't short circuit anything , including the 127 different devices u can "daisy chain" into ONE usb port,for instance a thumb drive plugged into a usb on a external harddrive , plugged into an extra port on your new usb keyboard and that plugged into your u.s.b port, all plug and play detected and all hot swappable
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I got my wife a really small Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse.  The USB receiver snaps into the bottom of the mouse when you're done and turns the mouse off to save the batteries.  It was only like $15.
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via data cable connected into usb port
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A wireless network adapter, either one that connectes through a USB port (they are slightly larger than a pack of gum) or one that connects through your PCMCIA card slot.  The advantage of the first is that you can use it on multiple computers; the advantage of the second is that you don't need to carry anything "extra" around to plug into your computer.  With either, you will need to install software onto your computer, which is simple and the directions will come with the network adapter.  Lastly, you will most likely need to purchase a package to be able to use the wireless networking at the locations that offer it.    The two links below will tell you about many places that provide it, and many free ones.  Prior to purchasing a package you should stop by the locations that you will most often use your computer at, and see which service they use.
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You have to have a wireless card in your pc
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Bluetooth wireless technology is a short-range communications technology intended to replace the cables connecting portable and/or fixed devices while maintaining high levels of security. The key features of Bluetooth technology are robustness, low power, and low cost. The Bluetooth specification defines a uniform structure for a wide range of devices to connect and communicate with each other.