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Slowing a USB 2.0 port to 1.1 speeds

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loic2003

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I'm tring to get this USB -> Parallel cable to work in order to run an old printer from a modern laptop (yeah, it's messy but I have no choice). It seems that the printer isn't too happy about it, as it'll connect to the printer and then transfer say, 65k of the 170k test page and then stop. The printer begins to state that it's processing the print job and then stops abruptly. I'm guessing that it could be the transfer speed, so I'm looking to slow down the speed of a single USB 2.0 port down to 1.1. Is this possible, and if so.... how?


thanks in advance.

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It should be done automatically. The USB 1.1 cable will only be able to transfer as fast as USB 1.1 speeds when plugged into a 2.0 port. How old is the cable?

(BTW this really should be in Tech Support)
 
Originally posted by: HermDogg
It should be done automatically. The USB 1.1 cable will only be able to transfer as fast as USB 1.1 speeds when plugged into a 2.0 port. How old is the cable?

(BTW this really should be in Tech Support)
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The cable is fresh out of the packet today. Thing is, one test page managed to get through ok. I figured like the old 56K's, the data would start off flowing slowly and a 'handshake' would occur to see if 2.0 speeds can be achieved. It's so messy going to a crap old legacy port, but it's the only way we can do this whilst keeping the network secure.

Sorry about the tech support, but I swear no-one actually enters that forum...
 
Should be backwards compatible. I thought USB 2 interfaces would automatically throttle down to USB 1 when used on USB 1 devices.
 
I've had this problem with USB 1.1 devices connected to USB 2.0 ports. (My Canon scanner is a prime example.)
Put a USB 1.1 hub in between.
 
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