I was looking at
And was curious whether or not I could get full Cat7 speeds. At the moment I'm using a Cat7 coupled with another Cat7 via a 5e coupler until a 7 comes out (if there is one please link me to one). The reason I'm looking at this is it's cheaper than replacing my entire PSU (it's a long story, but my Ethernet port decides to work with my father's PSU just not mine...).
Theoretically, you should be able to get up to 480mbps over USB 3.
Is that equal to what I could get with a standard connection? We have 12 megabyte bandwidth via century link if that helps. I don't know a lot about networking so I'm a little curious as to if speeds would be equivalent.
Well, 12MBps = 96Mbps, so that's no where near maxing out USB 3.0.
You should get full speed. I'm not sure, but I think converting to USB might add a bit of latency, but nothing massive.
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Thank you.
Are you sure you mean megabyte? I thought century link was DSL? (I'm not from the US) and DSL maxes out at 24Mbps which is 3MBps.
Then USB definitely won't 've a problem haha
I guess that would explain why my downloads cap at 1.2-1.5 megabytes a second. To get from megabits to megabytes you divide by eight right?
Uhhhhh that's USB 2.0 Theoretical max speed you just quoted. USB 3.0 theoretically can go unto 5Gb/s
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Especially when I'm using 1/480th of its bandwidth. It's not that slow to be honest. My games download fast enough. One day I'll have fiber, but I'm not the one paying for the current setup so...
Yup. Just googled it.
The now-aging USB 2.0 standard can theoretically transfer data at a very high 480 megabits per second (mbps), or 60 megabytes per second (MBps). That's impressive, but not as much as the newer USB 3.0, which can handle up to 5gbps (640MBps)—over ten times as fast as the 2.0 maximum.Jun 26, 2014