Subj : USB port issue -follo To : Ky Moffet From : Barry Martin Date : Mon May 25 2020 10:48:00 Hi Ky! > KM> USB extender cables, long and short (short is a 5 pack): > Will save and check out later. LIS in the previous message, I used > 'tight' to mean running low on the number of free ports on hub. KM> Oh, that too.. have got to where my minimum to buy a hub is 7 KM> ports! of course you can daisy-chain 'em... the one I can see has Yes, could daisy-chain them, though depends on where the hubs are. The original plan here was to with the computer at the right of the Computer Desk to go 'up' to a "splitter hub" -- no, not some rare device, just a designation for what function it had: mainly to split runs to other parts of the room. The run to the left would have a small hub in the right cubbyhole of the Computer Desk Hutch, continue on to another small hub on the left. (The run from the 'splitter hub' in the other direction would have had similar connecting points.) Well, as you could probably tell by the phrasing, that didn't quite work. The 'right hutch hub' probabaly would have had the keyboard and mouse plugged in to it -- that's one of those "can but shouldn't" deals so two additional cables behind the desk. ...Actually three: due to what might be a Southbridge problem once in a while one or the other stops connecting -- that hasn't happened for a few months. Unplug, replug - back up. Once the silly thing just didn't want to work so strung another USB extension back there - fixed! (So much for labeling!) Sort of back to my hub story, ends up because of Stuff on Desk, access to UPS power, etc., easier to have all permanent and temporary USB devices on my left, so the plan for the 4-port USB Hub didn't quite work as planned. KM> plugged into it two secondary hubs (old ones for small crap that KM> doesn't need USB3 speed), four random devices, and the power for KM> the KVM that is supposed to run off keyboard power but is only KM> being used for video. I have no idea what's plugged in down there KM> out of sight; when I peer behind the two adjacent PCs it looks KM> like a total rat's nest down there. Wasn't USB supposed to reduce KM> cable hell?? As that didn't quite work out that's why WiFi was invented! I found my USB scanner scans faster when connected to a USB 3 port even though it's old enough not know kbnow what USB3 is. Probably just able to send the data faster than USB2 speeds, or maybe less time waiting for the RTS/CTS // Xon/Xoff signals. Could also be it was barely compliant with the USB2 power requirements and the extra current of USB 3, though seems like the pins are wrong -- as long as it's happy! As for things requiring power when they probably don't have to, I have a HDMI switch which 'needs' to be powered. Tried a few different ones, so either all do or they all have the same basic circuit even though different brands and port numbers. (A switch I had downstairs not requiring power needed power up here sometimes.) > I've used extension cables just because the port was on the rear panel, > the computer housed in a cubbyhole of sorts, and sometimes a bother to > install or even not able to install a front panel port. KM> Yeah... USB3 is another fun one, what's with having to provide my KM> own front panel connector?? (Another thing I bought lately, same KM> source.) Agree!! And unless there's something I don't know it would seem better for the user to have a front panel USB 3 port than USB 2 if a choice had to be made. Quite sure USB 3 is a little more expensive and so may have to charge an extra $5 for the 49› difference. > KM> They have all kinds of small techie components and tools. Was > KM> very pleased and now they're my go-to for USB stuff. > Will check out -- and I've got around 90% of by "COVID-19" check from the > government! KM> Finally got that too. Was beginning to wonder if it was KM> imaginary. Hopefully you're talking about the check!!! My Mother finally received hers also -- I was half-figuring on the direct deposit option but guess she got her little tax refunds via check. (Her Social Security is direct deposit....) > .. He's so old his photo ID is a black and white tin-type. KM> Wait, where'd they get our pictures?? Mine seems to be when I photobombed the driving of the Golden Stake for the Transcontinental Railroad! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Grin and bear it -- No photographs, please! --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .