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Connecting to Peripherals 5
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5 Connecting to Peripherals
This chapter describes how you attach peripheral devices to your mini
EPC. You can attach a printer or mouse; connect an external monitor
and keyboard, or any other peripheral device.
Using the USB Port
USB (Universal Serial Bus) is a hardware interface that enables you
to connect multiple devices (such as mouse, keyboard, storage
device, joystick, digital camera, and video conference cameras, etc.)
to your notebook computer. Besides, USB’s hot swap capability
allows everything to be plugged in and unplugged without turning the
system off.
Microsoft, HP, Compaq, Intel, Agere, NEC and Philip are seven core
members of USB-IF to have worked on USB 2.0 standardization.
USB 2.0 offers data transfer rate up to 480Mbps (megabits per
second) compared to USB 1.1 devices, which transfer at speeds of
12Mbps. So, you could know that USB 2.0 can transfer data between
the computer and its peripherals 40 times faster than USB 1.1.
However, USB 2.0 is fully backward compatible, you will be able to
use a USB 1.1 device in a USB 2.0 compliant system.
Using the LAN Port
This mini EPC is equipped with an internal 10B /100/1000Base-T
Gigabit Ethernet LAN module that connects your computer to other