Determining USB port version

[Guest Don Culp]

How can I determine if my computer's USB ports are version 1 or 2. (The

reason I'm asking is that copying files to a USB drive seems very slow so I

suspect that the ports may be version 1.)

 

Thanks,

Don Culp

[Guest philo]

Re: Determining USB port version

 

 

"Don Culp" <dculp@krell-engineering.com> wrote in message

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> How can I determine if my computer's USB ports are version 1 or 2. (The

> reason I'm asking is that copying files to a USB drive seems very slow so

I

> suspect that the ports may be version 1.)

>

> Thanks,

> Don Culp

>

>

>

 

 

Look at your USB ports in "device manager": if you have any USB-2 ports it

will show "enhanced" or USB-2.

 

If you do not see that, you have USB-1

 

 

BTW: some machines have both USB1 and USB 2 ports...

which obviously can require a bit of trial and error to sort out.

 

If you need to add USB-2 the add-on PCI cards are quite inexpensive...so

it's usually not a big deal to upgrade.