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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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of 10 Gbps!

EXAM TIP The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) does not officially

use “Low-Speed” and “Full-Speed” to describe 1.5-Mbps and 12-Mbps

devices, calling both simply “USB 1.1.” The CompTIA A+ certification

exams, though, traditionally refer to the marketplace-standard nomenclature

used here.

Most people want to take advantage of these amazing speeds, but what do

you do if your motherboard doesn’t have built-in SuperSpeed USB ports?

One option is to add an adapter card like the one shown in Figure 10-4.

CompTIA refers to these cards (at any version) as USB expansion cards.

Figure 10-4 USB expansion card

Motherboards capable of both USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 usually share the

available USB ports (see Figure 10-5). For every USB port on your

computer, a Low-Speed or Full-Speed device uses the USB 1.1 host

controller, whereas a Hi-Speed device uses the USB 2.0 host controller.

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