Re: USB

From: Big Mac (no-email-in-usenet_at_zzz.org)
Date: 05/16/04 

Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 01:51:49 -0700

"Tiggy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hi
>can anybody help a novice please.
>If I fit a usb2 card to my computer,will I be able to
>connect and use my printer, which at the moment is
>connected to usb1.1.Also will it produce the faster speed
>of usb2.
>Hope this makes sense.
>Many thanks
> Tiggy
>PS whatever the reply does it refer to other things, such
>as digital camera etc.

Tiggy, not an expert here, but as far as I understand it, you'll have
your old USB ports and your new ones also. I do not know, however, if
a computer over a certain age needs some kind of motherboard or chip
compatibility - probably not, because if you have a PCI slot, it will
work.

And what someone else said - I don't think your printer can take
advantage of the faster speed available to it even if it was made for
USB 2. But, I bought an external USB hard drive for backing up, and
that I am pretty sure is taking advantage of the increase in speed
with 2.

And you ask about digital cameras - maybe it will download onto your
computer faster with the .JPG pictures it takes. That is if the
camera itself is made for the USB 2. However, I don't think a camera
has much built-in memory to store enough pictures anyway so that the
difference in speed will save you much time. I bought a standard 128
MB memory card for mine, & now it can store over 500 pictures in
standard mode. So no USB anymore for my camera. When a memory card
is used it disables the camera's built-in memory. It uses the
multi-card reader that came with the computer (hopefully anyway - I
haven't tried it yet... :-) )

Big Mac

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