Friday, January 8, 2010

How To Add More Usb Ports

Written By Justin Becker

So, You’re Using Your Computer and You Realize You Need to Plug in Your Webcam but When You Go to Plug It in You See That You Already Have Used up Your 2-4 (Depending On Computer) Usb Ports, and you can’t Unplug your IPod Because Its Syncing You Can’t Unplug your Mouse nor your keyboard Because Then You Wouldn't Be able To Use Your computer. What shall you do? Fortunately, there are Two Solutions.

1. The First solution is most likely the best solution for most situations, this method involves purchasing what is called a Usb hub Rosewill RHB-320 7 Ports USB 2.0 Hub with Power Adapter a Usb Hub Is a Device You Plug into any Existing Usb Port, on the side of the hub there are anywhere from 2-16 Usb ports you can plug any Usb Device Into. The problem with this method is that data flow between devices to your computer might be slowed down by up to 15%. This method is perfect for laptops and home users.

2. This Second Method Is for Advanced Computer Users Who Are Using Windows or Linux Based Desktop computers. This method involves Purchasing a What’s Called a Usb PCI Card such as The IOGEAR USB 2.0 PCI Card.IOGEAR USB 2.0 PCI Card GIC251U USB adapter - PCI - 5 ports Usb PCI Cards Are Computer Chips That Are inserted into PCI Expansion Slots inside Your Computer. once The card Is Inserted You Will Need To Install Whatever Software Came With Your PCI Card.

So, There You Go That’s How You Add Usb Devices To Your Computer. As a Quick side note, did you know You Can Plug in Up to 127 Usb Devices into your computer. To Accomplish this You Can Plug in Usb hubs to Usb Hubs.