hi all, i have a large number of gadgets that are USB 2 compatible, i also have 4 USB 2 sockets on my Acer Lap Top.

Often when i plug in some of my USB 2 gadgets i get a little window pop up that tells me this device can go faster if plugged into a USB 2 socket etc.

I look in control panel/system/hardware/device manager and i have a section "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" i open this up and i have:-
4 entries "USB Root Hub" below these i have
3 entries "Via Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller" below which i have
1 entry "Via USB Enhanced Host Controller"

they all say they are working OK, but i am wondering if i maybe have only one USB socket that is running at the correct speed.

So my question is is there is a bit of software that can measue the speed of data transfer of USB sockets ???.

this forum was very helpful to me recently by putting me onto some software that measured the speed of Hard Disc Drives (IDE, SATA and USB) thanks again for that, so can i discover the speed of my USB ports ?.

tim

Try to plug your device in each of the ports. It looks like only 1 is USB2.0.

You may need to install the drive update 2.0.

Go to device manager.
right click on each USB and click update driver
check the box intsall from a peciffic location
click next
unceck box floopy/cd.
check box include this location and type in the box
C:\WINDOWS\system32
click next do this for each USB drive in turn,

or try Microsoft update for the 2.0 update or your manufacturers web site.

jelly bean, thanks for the suggestion, the first idea didnt work, i tried Acer already, no luck there, will try Microsoft next, I'm not very hopefull

tim

thanks, thats what i thought as well, i guess the 2 lots of 4 entries entries should be the same !

tim

if you give me make and model number of your acer i will try a drive search.

hiya buddy, i tried the driver agent site and got something via the microsoft site, no difference.

My Acer Laptop is an Aspire 1360 (1363 WLMi) AMD Sempron 3000+ running Win XP Home + SP2

PS. i have to go to bed now, so see ya tommorrow , thanks

PPS, perhaps i pay $30 subscription to the Driver agent Site ???????

tim