USB2 problem

[London Geezer]

Hello chicos

I'm sure some of you guys remember that i had some problems with my Hi-Speed USB2 connections on my PC. The problem being they would act as USB1 or 1.1 dunno.

Well i plugged a new USB2 MP3 player the other day and it recognised it as USB1. Now i would NOT accept that so out of desperation i unplugged my camera (which works fine at USB2) and BOOM the mp3 player works fine at high speed!!

So basically, i can't plug more than one USB2 device at any one time and have them all working at high speed? That's a bit crap, why have so many USB ports then? Is it a problem with a driver? i've updated everything many times and this thing is still there.

Any ideas?

 

[Frank]

All the USB devices communicate with the master device over the same bus, so it switches back to the slowest speed. But most motherboards have 2 USB masters, so you should be able to connect the high-speed stuff to one, and the slow stuff to the other.

 

[digitalwanderer]

I feel your pain. My cute little USB HD is zippy as all get out on my system, but when I take it over to my friends what takes 3 minutes to upload on my system can take 30 minutes to download to hers!

I ordered their family a 4 port USB2 PCI card. For $10us it seems like it'll pay for itself the first time I use it.