"Chris.B" wrote:

I have been getting conflicting advice from different specialist
dealers on whether I should use a USB 2 cable with my Toucam ProII
840K/20 webcam. The first sold me an active 5 metre Sandberg cable with
only USB 1.0, USB 1.1 spec and told me that the cable doesn't matter at
all whether for USB 1.0 or USB 2.0. I had already installed a new USB
2.0 card because the Toucam ProII didn't seem happy on USB 1.

The next dealer sold me a 5 metre passive USB2 cable and insisted that
a USB 2 cable was essential to work with USB2 devices and cards because
of the high speed requirements.

I seem to recall from actually reading the USB spec that there is no
difference between USB1 and USB2 cables.

If what you've got works it's fine, keep it. I'd expect to see errors
(not just performance degradation) if the cable wasn't up to the job.


Tim
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