USB 2.0 upgrade

[mickeyarmes]

I want to upgrade to 2.0 USB. I was told that if my bus speed was less than 200 I would not be able to fully utilize 2.0 external hardware. Is this correct and if so why?

[morriswindgate]

WOW so you're gonna install USB 2.0 on your computer, fantastic.
So what ya gonna connect to it???? Cause the only thing that I see available out there is overpriced external hard drives and external CD-RW drives.
IMHO, wait for a while until the prices and availability of USB 2 hardware is better. I have read some articles that state USB 2.0 may be to late in arriving to displace Firewire and as such may not catch on with the consumer hardware manufactures.

[HAL9000]

Something to take note of. I just did an upgrade for a guy and he wanted a dual boot ot Win98 and WinXP. His motherboard has USB 2.0, but when I went to get drivers for it (believe it or not, they were not included on the motherboard CD), I could not get USB 2.0 drivers for Win98, only Win2K and XP.

[nr0c]

I bought a Adaptec usb2connect 5100 and it has drivers for Windows 98 up to Xp for it and works great . The card is a little more expensive but no problems, hopes this helps ,Gary