USB 2.0 Hi-Speed 4+1 Port PCI Host Card

The USB 2.0 High-Speed 4+1 Port PCI Host Adapter supports a transmission rate of up to 480 Mbps (Megabits per second) to give better performance (40 times faster than USB 1.1 or 12 Mbps and also compared to 400 Mbps transmission rate of IEEE 1394 FireWire) and allows the connection of multiple peripheral devices to function simultaneously. It is fully backward compatible with USB revision 1.1 devices, meaning your previously invested USB 1.1 devices can continue to function as usual. The USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI Host Adapter offers high-performance functionality through allowing multiple peripheral devices to share the 40-time increased bandwidth. Peripheral devices requiring high-speed transmission rates, such as, external storage devices, scanners, DVD drives, CD-RW drives, MO (Magneto-Optical) drives, and digital cameras/camcorders, used to require the use of the more expensive FireWire (IEEE 1394), can NOW be supported with satisfaction by this USB 2.0-compliant host adapter at huge cost savings.

Features:

• Compliant with BOTH the Standard Specification of USB 2.0 and USB 1.1
• Compliant with PCI specification 2.2
• PCI multi-function device consists of two (2) OHCI cores for low-speed (1.5 Mbps) and full-speed (12 Mbps) signaling, plus one (1) EHCI core for high-speed (480 Mbps) signaling
• High-speed up to 480 Mbps data transfer rate
• Provides a total of 5 USB ports — four (4) external and one (1) internal downstream Type A USB ports
• Links up to 127 USB devices
• Supports Plug & Play specification
• Enables a PC to connect devices requiring low as well as high-speed of transmission such as keyboards, mouse, printers, as well as external storage devices, scanners, and digital cameras/camcorders by hot-plug capability