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Product Limitations
General
The port replicator splits a single connection among a
variety of devices and connections. Some devices, which
use large amounts of bandwidth, such as printers and
digital cameras, can consume all available resources and
may interfere with the performance of other devices.
You may experience some temporary halting of some
devices when a high data transfer is occurring. For example,
your mouse may respond slowly while a graphic print job is
printing or while you are experiencing heavy network traffic.
We recommend the following guidelines:
• Do not transfer data to or from multiple high-speed
devices at the same time, such as a digital camera and
scanner.
• If speed degradation does occur, close other programs
that use a USB device to improve device performance.
Parallel Port
The parallel port is only compatible with printers and only
supports enhanced bi-directional printer features, such as
returning printer status. For best results, you should
connect high bandwidth external devices, which have a
parallel connection, such as a Zip
®
drive, directly to your
computer.
PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard
On the port replicator, a PS/2 mouse emulates a USB
mouse and a PS/2 keyboard emulates a USB keyboard.
This may result in a loss of enhanced features, such as
screen scrolling or programmable hot key features.
