Dell USB ports, some are slow and some fast

[Joe Bob]

How or where can I determine which are higher speed?

[Scott Douglas]

On my old Dell it will come up with a pop-up window when I plug something in that can use a faster port than the one it's plugged into telling me such.

[id10t]

My experience is the back ones are typically 2.0 and the front are 1.1 - not sure about USB 3.0 (back I think) and not sure on laptops - my Dell USB port experience is limited to various vintages of optiplex desktops

[Joe Bob]

The Insprion has 5 ports. The high speed are a stacked pair on the side. The 3 on the rear are the toads.....I found a guy down the street that had a USB meter....

Was loading a dinky 4gb iPod and it took 3 hours. Moved the cables and the 80gb is almost done after 2.

[LSA]

Modern usb ports are usually color coded blue for usb 3 black for 2/1 and on laptops they usually imprint usb3 on the case. The system documentation would tell you which port is which but probably the easiest is just to look at the MB/s rate when copying then try another port in a different row. Generally usb ports in the same row will be the same speed.

Effing just be glad it's not an older optiplex lol some of the usb ports will go bad and cause the computer not to boot if anything is plugged into that row of ports.