Congratulations on your purchase of the Net-LinQ: an USB-USB Network Bridge

cable. This Net-LinQ USB Network Bridge cable provides a quick and easy solution
to network up to 17 computers via hot Plug and Play technology without adding any
network interface card. It is suitable for small offices, home offices, mobile users, and
network gamers.
Net-LinQ USB Network Bridge cable allows you easily to construct a network via
USB port, share all the resources such as files, printer’s peripheral equipments, etc.

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Hardware:
USB-USB Network Bridge cable
USB A-B cable
Software:
Net-LinQ driver software

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USB specification revision 1.1 compliant
USB host to host communication, Single cable solution for network
communication, construct USB Network up to 17 PCs
Resources sharing such as Printers, CD-ROMs, Modems, Scanners, etc.
Support TCP/IP, NetBEUI, IPX/SPX protocols
Standard Windows® Explorer user interface
Data transfer rate: Up to 5M bits/sec

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PC
IBM PC 486DX4-100 MHz or higher or compatible system
Available USB port
CD-ROM drive
Windows® 98, Windows® ME, Windows® 2000, Windows® XP

MAC
Power G3, G4, or I-Mac
Available USB port
CD-ROM drive
Mac OS 9.X

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Before you start installing the driver, please don’t plug your USB-USB Network
Bridge Cable into the USB port of your computer.

Follow the steps below to install driver of the USB-USB Network Bridge Cable:

5.1 Turn on the power of computer and make sure the USB port is enabled and can
working properly.

5.2 Insert the driver of USB-USB Network Bridge into the CD-ROM drive.
Select “Install Products - USB NETWORK CABLE - Install”.

5.3 Select the “Next” to install.

5.4 You can choose the destination folder that you want to install or use the default
setting (C:\program files \USB-USB Network Bridge Driver V1.8.0.0), then click
“NEXT” to continue.

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5.5 The Install Shield Wizard wills pop-up a Question Window. If the computer you
installed is not a bridge computer. (Please refer to the section of Bridge Driver
installation below) you must click “No”, but in case of you are on the bridge
computer, you have to click ”Yes”. Because this “USB-USB Bridge Protocal”
must not be installed on more than one computer in the USB LAN.

5.6 During the installations, the system may ask you to insert the Windows® 98 CD-
ROM, please insert your Windows® 98 CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive then
click “OK”.

5.7 If the system cannot find any file, please direct to your CD-ROM drive and click
“OK”.

5.8 Select “Yes, I want to restart my computer now.”, then click “Finish” will restart
your system.

5.9 Connect the USB-USB Network Bridge cable and restart Windows system.

Attention: If the following screen appears, do not bypass it or you will not be
able to access your network.

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5.10 Since USB-USB Network Bridge V1.8 has finished installing the network driver
during the installation, your USB network environment is set up automatically
when the installation is complete. Now you can see all the computers in your
network in Network Neighborhood and you can share programs, files and other
peripheral devices through the standard Windows® interfaces, e.g. Windows®
Explorer and Network Neighborhood.

5.11To start sharing the resources, please follow the instructions below. Click
the Start menu, point to Programs\Windows Explorer.

5.12 Expand the desktop and select the drive, folder, file or printer you want to share.

5.13 Move mouse cursor and click right button on the resource.

5.14 Select Sharing.

5.15 Select Shared As and enter the Shared Name to be recognized by other
computers.

5.16 Select an access type. For example, choose full to give the complete access
right to this resource or Read-Only to give others the read-only right to the
resource.

5.17 Click OK.

Note: When the installation is complete, system will assign IP address and
Submask automatically. Don’t try to change any settings unless you are an
Expert network user. Any improper settings would cause system fail on
some network functions.

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Before you start installing the driver, please don’t plug your USB-USB Network
Bridge Cable into the USB port of your computer.

Follow the steps below to install driver of the USB-USB Network Bridge Cable:

6.1 Turn on the power of computer and make sure the USB port is enabled and can
working properly.

6.2 Insert the driver of USB-USB Network Bridge into the CD-ROM drive.
Select “Install Products - USB NETWORK CABLE - Install”.

6.3 Select the “Next” to install.

6.4 You can choose the destination folder that you want to install or use the default
setting (C:\program files \USB-USB Network Bridge Driver V1.8.0.0), then
click “NEXT” to continue.

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6.5 When the windows appear as below, please click “Yes” to continue.

6.6 The InstallShield Wizard wills pop-up a Question Window. If the computer you
installed is not a bridge computer. (Please refer to the section of Bridge Driver
installation below) you must click “No”, but in case of you are on the bridge
computer, you have to click ”Yes”. Because this “USB-USB Bridge Protocal”
must not be installed on more than one computer in the USB LAN.

6.7 Connect the USB-USB Network Bridge cable. Select “Yes, I want to restart my
computer now.”, then click “Finish” will restart your system.

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Attention: If the following screen appears, do not bypass it or you will not be
able to access your network.

6.8 Since USB-USB Network Bridge Driver has finished installing the network driver
during the installation, your USB network environment is set up automatically
when the installation is complete. Now you can see all the computers in your
network in Network Neighborhood and you can share programs, files and other
peripheral devices through the standard Windows® interfaces, e.g. Windows®
Explorer and Network Neighborhood.

Note: When the installation is complete, system will assign IP address and Submask
automatically. Don’t try to change any settings unless you are an Expert
network user. Any improper settings would cause system fail on some network
functions.

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Before you start installing the driver, please don’t plug your USB-USB Network
Bridge Cable into the USB port of your computer.

Follow the steps below to install driver of the USB-USB Network Bridge Cable:

7.1 Turn on the power of computer and make sure the USB port is enabled and can
working properly.

7.2 Insert the driver of USB-USB Network Bridge into the CD-ROM drive.
Select “Install Products - USB NETWORK CABLE - Install”.

7.3 Select the “Next” to install.

7.4 You can choose the destination folder that you want to install or use the default
setting (C:\program files \USB-USB Network Bridge Driver V1.8.0.0), then
click “NEXT” to continue.

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7.5 When the windows appear as below, please click “Continue Anyway” to
continue.

7.6 The InstallShield Wizard wills pop-up a Question Window. If the computer you
installed is not a bridge computer. (Please refer to the section of Bridge Driver
installation below) you must click “No”, but in case of you are on the bridge
computer, you have to click ”Yes”. Because this “USB-USB Bridge Protocal”
must not be installed on more than one computer in the USB LAN.

7.7 Select “Yes, I want to restart my computer now.”, then click “Finish” will restart
your system.

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 Attention: If the following screen appears, do not bypass it or you will not be
able to access your network.

7.8 Since USB-USB Network Bridge Driver has finished installing the network driver
during the installation, your USB network environment is set up automatically
when the installation is complete. Now you can see all the computers in your
network in Network Neighborhood and you can share programs, files and other
peripheral devices through the standard Windows® interfaces, e.g. Windows®
Explorer and Network Neighborhood.

Note: When the installation is complete, system will assign IP address and Submask
automatically. Don’t try to change any settings unless you are an Expert network
user. Any improper settings would cause system fail on some network functions.

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With USB-USB Network Bridge cable, you can access Internet through Ethernet. We
need to construct an USB LAN and an Ethernet LAN environment, as the diagram
shows below:

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Computer A: Connects Computer B with USB-USB Network Bridge cable.
Computer B: The Bridge Computer which connects Computer A through USB-
USB Network Bridge cable and connects Computer C with an Ethernet Adapter.
Computer C: One PC of the Ethernet LAN connects Computer B with an
Ethernet Adapter and can access the Internet directly.

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Take this Network Construction above as an example, Computer B has to be the
Bridge Computer, and it needs Bridge Driver while installing. The InstallShield
Wizard will pop-up a Question Window; In case of Computer B, it has to be the
Bridge Computer, you must click “Yes”, but in case of Computer A, you have to
click ”No”. Because this “USB-USB Bridge Protocal” must not be installed on
more than one computer in the USB LAN.

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 After you install this Bridge Driver on Computer B, there will be one more protocol:
USB-USB Networking Bridge in the Network Configuration. This is a routing
protocol; you can use it to bridge between an USB LAN and an Ethernet LAN.

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10.1 When all installation processes are completed, you have to specify an IP
address, Subnet Mask and Gateway on Computer A:

10.2 Click the Start menu, point to Setting\Control Panel. Double click Network
icon. In Configuration tab, select TCP/IP -> USB-USB Network Bridge
Adapter, and then click Properties.

10.3 In IP Address tab, please choose “Specify an IP Address”, and fill in the IP
address and Subnet Mask value properly. This information should be from
your MIS people and make sure this IP Address, which is not in use of your
Ethernet, or it will cause a network failure.

10.4 In Gateway tab, you must specify a proper value. This IP Address of Gateway
should be the same with the other Computers in the Ethernet.

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 10.5 When complete all these TCP/IP setup processes, you have to restart your
computer again. After that, the Computer A can use USB-USB Network Bridge
cable to connect Computer B to access the resources of Ethernet (File, CD-
ROM, and Scanner sharing) and execute all the functions on Internet
(WWW, Email, FTP, Telnet, Gopher… etc.).

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11.1 Follow the steps below to remove the the USB-USB Network Bridge driver from
Windows® system:

11.2 Click the Start menu, point to Settings\Control Panel. Double click
Add/Remove Programs icon.

11.3 In Install/Uninstall tab, select USB-USB Network Bridge Driver V1.8.0.0

11.4 Click Add/Remove button and then click OK.

11.5 Restart Windows® system.

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 MAC Driver Installation

Following the steps below to install driver of USB-USB Network Bridge cable:

12.1 Copy the D:\ USB NETWORK CABLE \Driver\MAC\SETUP.SIT

(D:represents CD-ROM.) to the desktop

12.2 Double click the SETUP.SIT program, it will auto run the file and install a
Release 5.3 Install icon on the desktop.

12.3 Double click to run Release 5.3 Install program, it will open the following
window.

12.4 Click on Install Location popup you can change the installation disk.

12.5 Click on Install button.

12.6 Follow the instructions on every dialog box to finish the installation.

12.7 Click Restart to restart your computer

12.8 After the installation is completed, it will create an MAC-PC & PC-MAC COMM
SOFT folder in the Local HD.

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Follow the steps below to remove the PC-Linq driver from MAC

13.1 Remove the MAC USB DataBridge folder to the trashcan.

13.2 Restart your MAC system.

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If you have successfully installed the driver, but can’t see either your or the other
computers’ names in Window’s Network Neighborhood, please check the following
points.

14.1 Make sure the USB-USB Network

Bridges Cables are firmly connected
to the USB ports of your computers
or USB hubs.

14.2 Click the Start menu, point to

Settings\Control Panel. Double
click Network icon. In Identification
tab, ensre each computer has been
given a unique name, not to conflict
with each other. Make sure the
Workgroup name is the same for all
the computers in the network.

14.3 In Configuration tab, check the

USB-USB Network Bridge
Adapter is in the following
network compenents are installed
list.

14.4 In Configuration tab, click File and

Print Sharing button. Make sure
both I want to be able to give
others access to my files and I
want to be able to allow others to
print to my printer(s) functions are
selected. It would cause the File
and printer sharing for Microsoft
networks service be installed and
enable this computer to share its
files and printers to the others.

After checking all these points, if the network is still not working properly, please contact
your supplier instead of revising the settings by yourself unless you are an expert
network user.
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Information in this document is subject to change without notice. The manufacturer
does not make any representations or warranties (implied or otherwise) regarding
the accuracy and completeness of this document and shall in no event be liable for
any loss of profit or any other commercial damage, including but not limited to
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registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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This device generates and uses radio frequency and may cause interference to
radio and television reception if not installed and used properly. This has been
tested and found to comply with the limits of a Class B computing device in
accordance with the specifications in Part 15 of FCC Rules. These specifications
are designed to provide reasonable protection against such interference in a
residential installation. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not
occur in a particular installation. If this device does cause harmful interference to
radio or television reception, which can be determined by plugging the device in
and out, the user can try to correct the interference by one or more of the following
measures:
Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
Increase the separation between the device and receiver.
Connect the computer into an outlet on a circuit different from that to
which the receiver is connected.
Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

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