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How Many USBs Can You Plug In At Once? [58189]

 
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:38 pm    Post subject: How Many USBs Can You Plug In At Once? [58189] Reply with quote
How many USB devices can be plugged into a PC at one time? It's a reasonable question, but the answer is more complicated than you might expect. We took 127 USB devices and plugged them in one by one until something broke. Then we took those same devices and reconfigured a few things to see if we can break it a differe

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 12, 2023 1:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
In my experience this is a temperamental issue. My 9th Gen series motherboard craps out if I have 10 active devices plugged in, especially when I load an intensive game. It'll start randomly losing power to one of the devices and make the USB disconnect sound. Doesn't matter if I use a PCI-E USB expansion card or one plugged into my existing mobo ports.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 12, 2023 8:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/usb-hub/uh720/

I've been using this for years and it works great. The HUB uses an external power supply, so there is no problem.
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