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Originally Posted by General Maximus
the thing which confused me is why they did usb to start off with. My old teryaon modem was ethernet only, and I would naturally want to use that type of connection for lan/internet. All of a sudden when usb 2 came out it is as if everyone wanted to use it for everything and it just seemed bizarre that anyone would want to use it for internet access. To start off with virgin were telling everyone to use it and knocking out cds with all the crappy software and stuff on, and now they are telling everyone not to use it. You would have thought they would have done it the proper way to start off with. It is like me telling everyone to connec their monitors through usb instead of dvi.
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One simple reason: Most PCs released since about 1994 have come with some sort of usb port. Onboard Ethernet did not start becoming a standard facility (on PCs at least - Macs have had that since the mid 90s as well) until around 2002-2003.
The other option would have been to only support ethernet, and require that people open up their pcs and put cards in (at least until USB ethernet adaptors appeared).