Archive for September, 2008

Don’t get fooled by “Full”!

Saturday, September 13th, 2008
BIOS screenshot of USB controller speed configuration

BIOS screenshot of USB controller speed configuration

Today, while browsing through my system’s BIOS for some tweaks, I noticed a strange sentence in my peripheral configurations:

Configures the USB 2.0 controller in HiSpeed (480Mbps) or FullSpeed (12Mbps).

Full-speed at 12 Mbps and Hi-speed at 480 Mbps? Damn, is this a typo in the BIOS textual description or am I missing something? I crawled the Web and found out that it was I who was confused: in fact, Hi-speed USB is the fastest one.

(more…)