That’s where a router with USB comes into play. A USB-equipped router will allow you to plug that printer straight in, removing the need to use a standard ethernet cord to transmit the data. USB has a much faster transfer rate (particularly USB 2.0), making that data transfer quite easy. Instead of waiting minutes for a network printer to start its work, it might only take seconds. That’s a lot of time saved in a busy corporate environment, isn’t it?
Now, there is still a little bit of a down side when using a router like this: You still do have to send your data over standard ethernet cables (or wirelessly) in order to get the data to the printer. The printer in our example is not standalone; you still have to send that data first to the router before it’ll get sent via USB to the peripheral itself. This won’t cut down on lag completely, but it’ll do a great job on cutting down on lag time.
In case you were wondering, a wired USB router is much better than wireless router USB systems. Wireless is great for use at home, not in large business environments like we we talked about in our example above. If you’re having significant lag problems with your system and you use wireless, no router with a USB port is going to save you. You’ll need to switch to wired instead.
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