USB 1 to USB 2?

[michaelmorris]

I've recently acquired an old dell latitude laptop with a P4 processor, 1gb ram and windows xp pro. I would love to be able to use it to run 1, possibly 2, video cameras for recording meteors. Unfortunately I get loads of dropped frames when I try running even one camera. My guess is that the problem is the single USB 1.1 slot. Is adding a 4 slot USB 2.0 pcmcia card likely to fix this problem?

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[Ant]

That was the only thing that I could think of doing.

I used one on an old laptop when I first started imaging, I seem to remember it working quite well.

Although I couldn't tell you if there was dropped frames or not.

Ant

[steppenwolf]

I used a two port PCMCIA USB2 card for image capture on my old Dell Inspiron XP laptop and it worked flawlessly.<br />

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[keithatrochdale]

Simple answer as I have done, assuming it will take a PCMCIA Cardbus card, get a USB2 one.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Compact-Short-Hide-PCMCIA-Cardbus-Card-for-USB-2-0-USB2-0-2-PORTS-LAPTOP-UK-FAST-/251017563010?pt=UK_Computing_Laptop_Port_Expansion_Cards&hash=item3a71d00b82

Like that, but do look around for cheaper that was the first I came to.

[michaelmorris]

Thanks folks - just ordered one.

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