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Graham M · 27-12-2005, 18:13

Well you will get much reduced speeds on USB a lot of the time as the 12MBit is shared across the hub

Transfer speed

USB supports three data rates.

A Low Speed rate of 1.5 Mbit/s (183 KiB/s) that is mostly used for Human Interface Devices (HID) such as keyboards, mice and joysticks.

A Full Speed rate of 12 Mbit/s (1.4 MiB/s). Full Speed was the fastest rate before the USB 2.0 specification and many devices fall back to Full Speed. Full Speed devices divide the USB bandwidth between them in a first-come first-served basis and it is not uncommon to run out of bandwidth with several isochronous devices. All USB Hubs support Full Speed.

A Hi-Speed rate of 480 Mbit/s (57 MiB/s). (Commonly called USB 2.0)

(Taken frm www.wikipedia.com)

27-12-2005, 18:13	#19
Graham M - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Poole, Dorset Age: 40 Services: FreeSat+ Tivo V-Box VM 60MBit Posts: 13,365	Re: USB or ETHERNET Well you will get much reduced speeds on USB a lot of the time as the 12MBit is shared across the hub Transfer speed USB supports three data rates. A Low Speed rate of 1.5 Mbit/s (183 KiB/s) that is mostly used for Human Interface Devices (HID) such as keyboards, mice and joysticks. A Full Speed rate of 12 Mbit/s (1.4 MiB/s). Full Speed was the fastest rate before the USB 2.0 specification and many devices fall back to Full Speed. Full Speed devices divide the USB bandwidth between them in a first-come first-served basis and it is not uncommon to run out of bandwidth with several isochronous devices. All USB Hubs support Full Speed. A Hi-Speed rate of 480 Mbit/s (57 MiB/s). (Commonly called USB 2.0) (Taken frm www.wikipedia.com)