Converting USB 1.1 to USB 2.0

[Detritus]

My girfriend has an old laptop without USB 2.0. Is there anyway to convert a usb 1.1 port to a USB 2.0 port without having to get inside the laptop?

 

[Elijah]

My girfriend has an old laptop without USB 2.0. Is there anyway to convert a usb 1.1 port to a USB 2.0 port without having to get inside the laptop?

im guessing no as it must be the hardware what makes it faster, connecting a external usb hub thing would mean it would still have to pass through the slower usb 1.1 to get to the hub.

/Tofas

 

[LeoCrasher]

No. That would be... impossible. Think of it like a pipe - if you did nothing other than put a bigger pipe on the end of a smaller one, the same amount of water would flow through.

What you need is a whole new interface, which being a laptop would probably utilise the PCMCIA port. An item like this;
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-Ports-USB-2...7QQihZ016QQcategoryZ42323QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

/Leo

 

[Detritus]

Thanks leo, you are a legend :bounce:

 

[SykoWizard]

erm usb 2 works with usb 1.1 anyway,,,, (well my harddrive did on a crappy old pc) gives a warning tho about usb's not matchin

 

[Onuris]

It's like converting IDE hdd drives to SATA, practically impossible, virtually possible