USB ports and speed

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AndiC

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I hope this is in the right section.

My question is about my internet speed and its relation to the USB cord and port.

I live in the middle of nowhere and am relying on an aircard. The best, or fastest internet connection I've been able to get is having the puter upstairs next to a window on the side of the house where the signal is coming from. The air card is connected to the puter with a USB cord so I can extend the card up to a light socket (no power connected to it yet - we are remodeling and its not a live wire, but it does seem to act as an antenna of sorts when I rest the aircard so its between the wires within the cord). Getting height helps and the wiring helps.

I wondered if the USB cord was restricting the amount of data it transmitted, but I came across something somewhere that was talking about the ports. It was saying the ports on my puter were either 2.0 or 1.1. The amount of data they can transmit is dramatically different. When I looked in the Hardware area of my Control Panel it looks like I have two 1.1 and one 2.0. Should I expect to get a better signal, or at least better data transmission if I can figure out which port is the 2.0 and use that, assuming I'm not already. How would I do that?

I am having issues with free memory (I have a different thread about that), but I do know my signal isn't the strongest either.

Thanks!
 
Yes, it is a desktop. The aircard is through AT&T. I use it on my laptop when I'm away from home. If I can pick up a free signal, like at a coffee shop, I just use that instead and the speed of the internet is dramatically faster. It is broadband, I do realize. I don't expect that with the aircard. I'm just wondering if the USB cord or the port that I'm using are limiting me on my desktop. If its the port it won't matter what I hook up to it. Right? I don't know much about cords and don't know if they are indeed limiting.
 
Well to me wireless is slower than a corded connection and using a usb wireless adapter is even slower and if this is mobile broadband it will even be slower cause of the latencies and ping time. Usb 1.1 transfer speed is slower than 2.0. If you are accessing regular wireless internet and not mobile broadband then consider buying the item I linked you to from newegg or something similar to that.
 
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