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Smart Hub 2 USB ports (USB2 or 3)

MikeLanglois — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:04:30 GMT

Hi there,

Is the USB port on the Smart Hub2 a USB 2 or a USB 3 port? Cant seem to find out the information online.

Re: Smart Hub 2 USB ports (USB2 or 3)

licquorice — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:06:24 GMT

USB 2

Re: Smart Hub 2 USB ports (USB2 or 3)

MikeLanglois — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:12:48 GMT

Shame. Ok thanks very much

Re: Smart Hub 2 USB ports (USB2 or 3)

licquorice — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:22:53 GMT

Not only that, but if you use the port for a hard drive, it uses smb1

Re: Smart Hub 2 USB ports (USB2 or 3)

MikeLanglois — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:38:08 GMT

That is one of the things I was looking to doing. Guessing thats bad?

Re: Smart Hub 2 USB ports (USB2 or 3)

licquorice — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:43:52 GMT

It's just very slow. You also need to enable Smb1 in W10 as it is disabled by default.

If you are not worried about speed, the port works ok, I use it to connect an external hard drive for backups.

Re: Smart Hub 2 USB ports (USB2 or 3)

MikeLanglois — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:48:03 GMT

How slow are we talking, and is there any hope they will enable SMB2 or anything better?

I was going to use it to connect a hdd to my laptop wirelessly for occasional data transfer / backups, so slow wouldnt be a problem unless its like 50kbps lol

Re: Smart Hub 2 USB ports (USB2 or 3)

licquorice — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 16:33:58 GMT

I guess it depends on the number and size of the files being transferred as much as the total size, but somewhere between about 40Mbs and 64Mbs. A 169GB backup took about 8.5Hrs and a 10.5GB about 20 mins.

Re: Smart Hub 2 USB ports (USB2 or 3)

CellBlock — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:59:00 GMT

Pretty sure it is a USB2 port, however as with earlier BT Hubs it will run much faster if you plug in a USB3 drive.

Re: Smart Hub 2 USB ports (USB2 or 3)

gg30340 — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 17:14:23 GMT

@CellBlock

Just so that you aware in case you get no replies, you are posting on a two year old thread.