- USB hubs
- Posted by kajeel on December 8th, 2005
I am considering using a USB hub. Is there any loss of performance in items
like printers and scanners when connected via a hub and is it necessary to
use a self powered one, or is one that draws its power from the PC adequate
for this purpose. I am planning on running an inkjet printer, scanner and
small (monochrome) laser printer. The PC is a P4 but unfortunately only USB
1.1 at this time.
Regards
k
- Posted by Whiskers on December 8th, 2005
On 2005-12-08, kajeel <iam@home.com> wrote:
There shouldn't be any loss in performance connecting via a hub instead of
directly to the socket on the PC, but your computer may get bogged down if
you try to run too many things at once.
If all the things you want to connect, have their own seperate
power-supplies, then I think a non-powered hub would be OK; if any of them
gets its power via the USB connection then a powered hub would be a good
idea.
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- Posted by Tony on December 8th, 2005
"kajeel" <iam@home.com> wrote in message
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which case you will not need a powered hub. You only need a powered hub
when you have lots of items attached that don't have their own power supply
(e.g. wireless USB adaptor, phone charger, MP3 player, cup warmer).
Unlikely that you will notice any hit on performance.
- Posted by Walter Mautner on December 8th, 2005
kajeel wrote:
just like the printers.
Since probably all your devices have their own power bricks, you won't need
"power-over-usb".
- Posted by PC on December 8th, 2005
"kajeel" <iam@home.com> wrote in message
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Kajeel
An external USB hub (preferably powered by a power brick) would work but the
USB V1.1 you have at the moment would prove to be a big bottle neck.
Even if your printers and scanner are only V1.1 they will each be able to
max out the present PC V1.1 socket so scanning and printing at the same time
will result in significantly reduced speed for these devices.
'Best' solution for you would be to install a 3/4 port USB 2.0 PCI card.
Cheers
Paul.
- Posted by Joey on December 9th, 2005
PC wrote:
- Posted by kajeel on December 9th, 2005
"Whiskers" <catwheezel@operamail.com> wrote in message
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connected the two printers to it so far. I have left the Canon scanner
(which does not have its own power) connected directly to the PC. The main
purpose of the hub was to avoid having to swap plugs all the time as the
printers will only be run one at a time and I was one USB port short of what
was required.
