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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does USB devices share bandwidth?
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:14:26
Message-Id: 7573e9640606221356j629b195bhd2dad4cecbb9b253@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Does USB devices share bandwidth? by "张韡武"
1 On 6/22/06, ÕÅí|Îä <zhangweiwu@××××××.com> wrote:
2 > The two USB slots provided by the USB card are both OHCI (some USB 1.x
3 > stuff, not USB 2.0). So far it seems one single printer uses up all the
4 > USB bandwidth (sometimes printer stop there several seconds wait for
5 > signal).
6
7 Are you *sure* this is due to USB bandwidth? Many printers have to do
8 internal processing of the document before they start printing, and
9 depending upon the complexity of the document, I've seen printers take
10 several seconds to several minutes to print each page. Simple text
11 documents are usually fast, but complex graphics can take a long time.
12
13 You might be better off upgrading to a single workgroup-class
14 network-enabled printer.
15
16 -Richard
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