Germany's own Sharkoon Technologies has just revealed the USB LANPort 100 and 400, a couple of adapters to help you connect USB-supporting devices to a local area network. The compact devices includes an Ethernet connector and one (100) or four (400) USB ports for hooking up things like flash drives, external/portable HDDs/SSDs, printers, and docking stations.
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