Connecting two computers with a specific type of Universal Serial Bus (USB) cable allows you to transfer files or other data directly from one machine to another. Transfer speeds are limited to the ...

USB hubs enable you to attach multiple devices, such as printers, hard drives and card readers, to a single computer. However, the USB hub only makes the devices available to one computer at a time.

I havent used a usb2 version, but I have used a usb1.1 version of these transfer cables. It came with software that had to be installed on both machines to work. Yours may be different, however.