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   seeyou | Jan 24, 2006 12:47am | #1

   I think the cables are the same as are the connectors. The card in the computer is 1.0 or 2.0 and the device is 1.0 or 2.0. They are backwards compatible. A 2.0 device will plug into a 1.0 card, but it will work at 1.0 speed rather than 2.0 speed.

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   peteshlagor | Jan 24, 2006 12:59am | #2

   So what you're saying is the cables themselves have no effect on transfer speeds within the whole picture.  It's just the components?

    

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   FastEddie | Jan 24, 2006 01:04am | #3

   Of course not.  You need to go to the speciualty cable store and buy the "gold plated" cables that cost 4 times as much as the ones at Walmart.  You know, the ones will all the hype about dB and rfi and fancy graphs on the package.

     

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   MarkH | Jan 24, 2006 01:41am | #4

   Speed costs money.  How fast do you want to go?

   That's an old Race Engine Builder quote.  Can be turned into many other versions quite easily.

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   seeyou | Jan 24, 2006 02:17am | #6

   I've got several USB2.0 devices and I don't see any difference in the cables that came with them. The connectors are the same. That's where my geek Knowledge ends. I don't know how 1.0 is different from 2.0, but 2.0 is deffinately faster.Birth, school, work, death.....................

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   DanH | Jan 24, 2006 02:05am | #5

   Though in theory the cable spec is different for USB 2 vs 1.x, in practice it doesn't make any difference unless you're dealing with fairly long cables. If the cable works, use it.

   If ignorance is bliss why aren't more people

   happy?