As I am still on MC 3.1.2, I have a dongle attached.

I will soon be installing a completely different piece of software (from Sonic) that also has its own USB dongle.

Do any of you know from experience whether or not there are complications having 2 different USB dongles installed on the same computer system?

I realise that after I upgrade MC, in the future, I could run it under software activation, but for the present I am staying with the dongle.

Of course, I am also asking the same question of Sonic.

Regards,

Douglas

Douglas, for a long time I ran with three different dongles attached for MC, Sapphire and Lightwave. Don't know about Sonic but I assume it should be fine.

BLKDOG:

Douglas, for a long time I ran with three different dongles attached for MC, Sapphire and Lightwave. Don't know about Sonic but I assume it should be fine.

Thank you BLKDOG,

That sounds extremely positive and reassuring

Regards,
Douglas

PC's here run happily here with a pair of iLoks, ProCoder and MC dongles attacched

MC and Inscriber TitleMotionPro with USB dongles. No problems.

Thank you all for your replies.

One further question would be - How about a USB hub?

Normally it is not recommended to use a dongle on a hub.
Usually it should be a direct USB connection.
Or have you been lucky enough to have plenty free USB ports?
Or even added a USB card with a few extra ports?

At the moment my MC usb dongle is a direct contact, but I have run out of free USB ports.

Regards,
Douglas

I have never had good luck with USB hubs.

Douglas,

I did run into a problem with another piece of software using a dongle.  All was fine until I updated the software and the driver for the dongle for it.  As I remember, I had to reinstall XP and I went back to the previous version of the software.  After several months a few updated versions of the offending software came out.  One said that they had changed how the dongle worked, so I upgraded and have been fine ever since.  It's dongle was very similar to Avid's and I think I did something when I had to update the driver for it.  (yeah, I wouldn't think would have a driver for a dongle, but that is what my memory is telling me happened.)

As far as the hub, I used to use a hub all of the time since I couldn't easily get to the back of my computer.  It generally worked.  Sometimes Avid would say that there wasn't a dongle attatched and then I would either unplug the dongle and plug it back in or unplug the hub (either electic or usb) and plug it back in and then it would work.  So, not a big deal if that is what you need to do.  However, your mileage may very as Avid doesn't want you to use a usb hub.  But it did work for me okay.