Is there such a thing as a USB 2.0 cable?

[bupkus]

Is there such a thing as a USB 2.0 cable?
Or does everthing connected to a USB 2.0 source just pass along it's characteristics.
IOW are all USB cables and HUBS USB 1.1 if the controller is 1.1 or 2.0 if the controller is 2.0?

 

[RPB]

i have a usb2.0 external hardrive and the cable that came with it is the same as all my usb1.1 devices.
transfers of data seem the same speed also.

 

[4824guy]

Yes there are USB 1 and USB 2 cables.

Belkin makes them in both versions, The usb 2 version is marked on the package as High Speed-USB2, and lists the transfer rate as 480mbps, 40 times faster than USB 1.1.

Both, however, are same gauge wires.

USB2 cables are backward compatible with USB 1x cables

 

[Mday]

and devices work fine on 1.1 cables...

<--- using 1.1 cables on 2.0 =)

 

[Zim Hosein]

bupkus, have a look here, hope this helps 🙂

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatSectionView.process?Section_Id=200433

 

[johnny1111]

I hear that the cables are the same, I have also heard that old (1.1) hubs will work at USB 2.0, as long as the host controller is USB 2.0. I'd like to find out the truth, anyone else?. -john

 

[Mday]

the cables are fine.

the hubs are not.

 

[CSFM]

Are you 100% sure the cables are fine MDay? I don't think that is the case, although I have yet to try it out. I have both USB 2.0 and 1.1 cables and they're a bit different. I would have thought that if there is a difference in physical appearance then there would have to be a difference in bandwidth between the cables.....? Anyhow, I am open to your explanation of how this can be.
Of course 2.0 is backward compatible with 1.1, and I hear the external USB 2.0 drives are doing really well in both performance tests and in sales... makes you wonder if IEEE1394 has any sort of future.... Firewire who???? 😛

-CSFM-