USB can be used for literally hundreds of different devices. These include but are not limited to keyboards, mouses, printers, external hard drives thumb drives & cdroms, network interface cards, game pads and joysticks, document scanners, fingerprint scanners, cameras, modems, soundcards, tv and radio tuners, graphics tablets. There are also USB devices which emulate older obsolete ports like serial and parallel ports so that legacy peripherals can be used with modern computers.
That depends on the type of device you actually want. Many new USB devices these days support USB 2.0. It should say on the package whether or not it supports USB 2.0.
Yes you can. USB 3.0 are backwards compatible, well at least most motherboards support it :D
A usb cable is not a device. A USB drive would be a Storage Device and still not be an Input or Output device. A USB keyboard would be an input device and a USB printer would be an output device.
The USB 2.0 and 3.0 device will work. USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with USB 2.0.
They work with any computer that has a USB port, to a USB device.
A usb cable is not a device. A USB drive would be a Storage Device and still not be an Input or Output device. A USB keyboard would be an input device and a USB printer would be an output device.
Check that the usb device is functional in the Device Manager, Some USB devices don't appear in Device Manager use the utility program that came bundled with the device to check for errors. No. Plug the device into another USB port. If it does not work after you have plugged it into all USB ports on the computer then you know that your device is not working.
The only virtual machine that currently support USB passthrough to allow a guest operating system to use a USB device connected to the host is VirtualBox.
As far as I know routers equipped with USB ports support usb printers and storage devices other than that was not reported.
First try moving the device to another USB port!!! Check that the usb device is functional in the Device Manager. some USB devices don't appear in Device Manager use the utility program that came bundled with the device to check for errors.
In theory a single hub of USB can support 127 devices. In practice, this will not actually occur. Most computers do not have enough power to drive that many devices. A reasonable number would be about 20.
USB 3.0 Extensions are backward compatible. USB 3.0 Device cables are not.