Re: USB ports?

Right! Has anyone ever connected up 127 USB devices on a computer, let alone
through a single USB port? Cable impedence would be a nightmare. This is
another case of paper specsmanship and hype, without a reality check. And
people pick on SCSI for being difficult! ... Ben Myers

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:24:14 -0700, "paulmd@xxxxxxx" <paulmd@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 4, 4:20 am, Ron Hardin <rhhar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can you plug in something to get more USB ports? I don't know how
they're wired, whether there are fan-out devices or what that make
them work with the software as if there are more ports.

(Oh, for the days of hardware manuals! You could understand and
even program any hardware device from the DEC, GE, IBM or Honeywell
manuals back in the good old days when manufacturers were actually
writing for programmers, by reading a couple pages. All questions
were anticipated and answered, starting from an acknowledged general
knowledge environment. Now everything has the word ``turbo'' in
it, and nothing else.)

The Inspiron 6400 comes with all of two USB ports, which seems to me
is likely to be low, needswise.

--
Ron Hardin
rhhar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

In theory, you can have up to 127 usb devices through cascading hubs.
In practice.... it would suck, to say the least.

.

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