I don’t know much about cables so if type something wrong forgive me …

I was wondering around with some old stuff, and found this cable that is usb to usb “as shown in the image below”

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71hHpyqvvnS._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg

Now what i thought was that it might be used to connect 2 computers with each other so i tried that and connected 2 computers with each other using it and nothing happened Can anyone tell me what this cable is even used for ???

  • deepinder_brar@lemmy.worldOP
    1·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for the info, I have another question. Can it be used to connect one pc to another maybe for sharing files or for doing some other stuff ?

    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Generally no - USB connections are asymmetric, with hosts and devices. Your PCs are both hosts - they cannot function as devices or communicate with other hosts.

    • ch00f@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      Nope. Computer USB A ports are “upstream ports.” Both computers would be expecting to find a downstream device on the port. USB needs a single host to control everything. Can’t have two hosts.

    • rocker@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      If it was already tried with this specific cable and it didn’t work, then this cable doesn’t have the capability built in. Some cables like this have a bridge in the cable that allows pc to pc communication.

    • Rednax@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Not without special support from the hardware and software. But a smartphone is pretty much a PC with specialized hardware and software. And you can certainly plug your smartphone into a PC to share photo’s.