Comment on How many USB hubs can you daisy-chain to a single port?

lauha@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Windows will even notify you of exactly this limitation.

  From the thunderbolt port on my laptop, to my dock, to my monitor, to my big ass hub was 1 too many hops. Obviously somewhere along there were some hubs that weren’t obvious to the naked eye.

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  • Shurimal@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Obviously somewhere along there were some hubs that weren’t obvious to the naked eye.

    Probably the port on your laptop was on a hub built onto the mobo. If my understanding is right that's how USB ports usually are connected: controller->hub->ports. If you open up device manager and go to USB controllers you'll see several root hubs and hubs even when you have no external hubs or docks connected.

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  • lauha@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, of the multiport hubs have a subhubs already

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