How to support two (dual) USB ports?

[jellis00]

The USB channels option in the Microchip Advanced Part Selector, MAPS, only has the option of 1 USB channel per chip. Why don't you use two 18F4550 like Robert suggested above?

Thanks for that...I didn't think of using MAPS to see if there was a PIC chip with dual USB. Since there isn't I guess my only choices are as follows:

1) Two PIC 18F2550 chips that each manage a USB port, and one of them to also collect the data from the otherone and to send both data elements to the WiFi module for transmission to the internet.
OR
2) Two MAX3421E Chips for thetwo USB ports and a PIC chip to collect the data from both MAX3214 chips and to manage the iWiFi module transmissions.

Have any of you actually created an app with one or the other of these approaches? Which approach do each of you think is the easiest to implement? I have a lot of experience with 18F2550 but no experience with MAX3421E so I tend to think I should go with 18F2550.