USB modems - How Much Speed on USB 1

Hi,

I was just wondering how many Mbs USB modems can cope with. There is
only so much data that can be sent over USB 1 connections (I
understand USB 2 is a lot faster)

Say one day 5mb connections are common place in the UK - will you
still get the benefit through your USB 1 external modem. I suppose
the question is ... what speed would your broadband connection need to
be before your USB 1 ports will stat to be a bottle neck.


Thanks

"andrew224" (E-Mail Removed) wrote in message
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> I suppose
> the question is ... what speed would your broadband connection need to
> be before your USB 1 ports will stat to be a bottle neck.

USB1.0 supports upto 12Mb/s
USB2.0 supports upto 480Mb/s

"Grant" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> "andrew224" (E-Mail Removed) wrote in message
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> > I suppose
> > the question is ... what speed would your broadband connection need to
> > be before your USB 1 ports will stat to be a bottle neck.
>
> USB1.0 supports upto 12Mb/s
> USB2.0 supports upto 480Mb/s


by the time 12Mb/s becomes an option I'm sure I will have moved upto
USB 2. Thanks for that.

On 28 Nov 2004 11:48:50 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) (andrew224)
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>"Grant" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
>> "andrew224" (E-Mail Removed) wrote in message
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>> > I suppose
>> > the question is ... what speed would your broadband connection need to
>> > be before your USB 1 ports will stat to be a bottle neck.
>>
>> USB1.0 supports upto 12Mb/s
>> USB2.0 supports upto 480Mb/s
>
>
>by the time 12Mb/s becomes an option I'm sure I will have moved upto
>USB 2. Thanks for that.

I'd use a 'real' network connection (RJ45) over USB any day. I
re-loaded 98SE on a friends machine the other night and plugged the
network card straight into the (NTL) cable modem and away we went.

I then went back to USB (that's what he had in the first place) and it
seemed it wouldn't work till we re-installed all the NTL CD gubbins (I
was getting DHCP and everything was bound but no connection ..?).

Also, I'm not sure if USB (with all it's contention / sharing etc) is
going to be as efficient as the (dedicated) network card ..
especially if you scan or print (over USB) whilst downloading SP2 or
whatever? ;-)

Just my 3dth .. ;-)

All the best ..

T i m