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Sep 2, 2012
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Hi,

I want to hook up three USB cameras to my 17" macbook pro.

It has 3 USB ports but I was getting a not enough USB bandwidth notice when plugging 3 in. (2 was fine).

I was under the impression that by using a separate USB express34 card, this would solve the problem - providing extra bandwidth.

However it seemed to just use the same internal USB bandwidth... and didn't allow me to add that extra camera.

I contacted support...they said...

"E/34 adapters that provide USB functionality just extend USB channel provided on the E/34 interface (that comes from the motherboard chips) to a connector so the user can access it."

Useless.

So - does anyone know of a product that will actually provide it's own USB bandwidth, and not use that internal to the macbook?

Many thanks,

Digby
 
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