will it work?

[techcuriosity]

Hello

 

I need to connect my peripherals (mouse and keyboard) via monitor, to do that I need 1x usb A male and 1x usb B male cable which I have, but the problem is that my pc is quite noisy, so I have decided to take away my pc from my room. So as you already understood, to do that, I need to aquire much longer usb cable.. I was thinking about extenders, and on websites I found them lots of, but they all are usb 2.0 A not 3.0,A  my current cable is probably usb 3.0,(there is ss marking on it) . So after all I would like to ask whether my peripherals will work when I will connect that 3.0 usb to usb 2.0 extender?

 

my monitor is dell u2414h, and pc is asus M2N-E

[AncientNerd]

1 minute ago, techcuriosity said:

Hello

 

I need to connect my peripherals (mouse and keyboard) via monitor, to do that I need 1x usb A male and 1x usb B male cable which I have, but the problem is that my pc is quite noisy, so I have decided to take away my pc from my room. So as you already understood, to do that, I need to aquire much longer usb cable.. I was thinking about extenders, and on websites I found them lots of, but they all are usb 2.0 A not 3.0,A  my current cable is probably usb 3.0,(there is ss marking on it) . So after all I would like to ask whether my peripherals will work when I will connect that 3.0 usb to usb 2.0 extender?

 

my monitor is dell u2414h, and pc is asus M2N-E

Powered USB hub is the best answer. But yes USB 2.0 devices will work on USB 3.X they will just slow everything down to USB 2.0 speeds. So with keyboards/mice/headsets this is not an issue. If you were to connect external drives it would be.

[NelizMastr]

That's quite an ancient PC (~10 years). It doesn't have USB3 by default. Did you add a PCIe USB3 controller?

[techcuriosity]

12 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

That's quite an ancient PC (~10 years). It doesn't have USB3 by default. Did you add a PCIe USB3 controller?

I didn't , yeah it's probably support only usb 2.0 , but my question was whether I can combine usb 3.0 cable with usb 2.0  extension cable..

[NelizMastr]

Just now, techcuriosity said:

I didn't , yeah it's probably support only usb 2.0 , but my question was whether I can combine usb 3.0 cable with usb 2.0 usb extension cable..

Yeah, no problem. USB3 is backwards compatible with 2.

[techcuriosity]

10 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Yeah, no problem. USB3 is backwards compatible with 2.

but it shouldn't be an active extender?

[AncientNerd]

39 minutes ago, techcuriosity said:

but it shouldn't be an active extender?

I have used a powered hub for up to about 25' on USB 2.0 without a problem. ~3' from the computer to the hub, 20' cable from the hub to the device, then another 2' from the device to where I was sitting (USB speakers in this case, about 4 years ago).

[techcuriosity]

3 hours ago, AncientNerd said:

I have used a powered hub for up to about 25' on USB 2.0 without a problem. ~3' from the computer to the hub, 20' cable from the hub to the device, then another 2' from the device to where I was sitting (USB speakers in this case, about 4 years ago).

Well, I don't need any powered usb hubs, because all peripherals I can connect via monitor, I need only acquire extender, only which should I choose? It's should be active or passive? Passive is much cheaper than active..

[AncientNerd]

Just now, techcuriosity said:

Well, I don't need any powered usb hubs, because all peripherals I can connect via monitor, I need only acquire extender, only which should I choose? It's should be active or passive? Passive is much cheaper than active..

I would suggest active, basically an active extender is a one port powered hub. The reason for powered is because it is able to boost the signal to go farther, in general I have had issues with passive extenders going much beyond about 10' but I do know people who have gotten them to go farther.

[techcuriosity]

7 minutes ago, AncientNerd said:

I would suggest active, basically an active extender is a one port powered hub. The reason for powered is because it is able to boost the signal to go farther, in general I have had issues with passive extenders going much beyond about 10' but I do know people who have gotten them to go farther.

I need about 4-4,5 metres lenght extender, so a passive extender will perform work fine, or it won't ,? Actually I do not need super fast data transfer, because I'm using cloud synchronization with all my devices, so probably I will use usb stick or external data storage rarely, my main aim is that peripherals, usb stick, external driver would work( without necessity of fast data transfer) with passive extender..  Take a note that all what I'm doing it's temporary, so I just do not want to waste money on expensive active extenders..

here is a link to my extender   http://www.gmb.nl/item.aspx?id=5212

[AncientNerd]

9 minutes ago, techcuriosity said:

I need about 4-4,5 metres lenght extender, so a passive extender will perform work fine, or it won't ,? Actually I do not need super fast data transfer, because I'm using cloud synchronization with all my devices, so probably I will use usb stick or external data storage rarely, my main aim is that peripherals, usb stick, external driver would work( without necessity of fast data transfer) with passive extender..  Take a note that all what I'm doing it's temporary, so I just do not want to waste money on expensive active extenders..

here is a link to my extender   http://www.gmb.nl/item.aspx?id=5212

Yea that should  work fine, 4-4.5m is probably about as far as I would go with a non-powered extension. I would say try it and if there is a problem then add a cheap powered adapter/hub close to the computer end.