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is usb 2.0 unrestricted usb 1?
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Posted by: quietman5us
Hi all, hopefully someone can clear this up for me.
I was looking at some all in one printer/copier/scanner/fax machines. The salesman said I need a USB 2.0 cable(that they sell for almost $30) for the machine I was interested in buying(HP5510). I said I have an AMD athlon 1ghz cpu with 512 mb and a mobo that supports USB 1.0. "will the machine slow down from 2.0 to 1.0 specs to accomodate my pc?"
His reply was that my pc was USB 2.0 capable, but my USB cable at home couldn't handle the rated speed of thru put, all I needed was the higher rated cablethey sell to handle USB 2.0.
I walked out. I'm sorry, but I thought USB 2.0 was a different spec than 1.0 which required the motherboard to be caple of, or the installation of a PCI card that adapts to the USB 2.0 spec?
Who was right?
Posted by: redwench
you, if your motherboard only supports 1.0, which presumably is the case with a comp that old. you might want the 2.0 cable for when you do upgrade/buy a new computer, but its not going to do anything for you now that a 1.0 cable wont.
Posted by: zorg
I have always thought that most sales people in bigger computer stores know about as much about computers as my grandmothers cat. As far as I know it should all work fine, just not as fast as it was meant to. For USB2.0 to work as it was meant to, your mobo/usb card needs to be usb2.0 as well as the product and it should be connected with a USB2.0 cable.
Posted by: redwench
oh, i guess i might not have been clear. device and cable will work fine, just at 1.0 speeds. 
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