A few years ago, you would plug in your mouse, keyboard, speakers, monitor, etc. into separate ports on a computer. Now, I have a dock that all my peripherals connect to, and my laptop is just connected to that dock through a single USB-C cable. There’s never any noticeable lag, either. What improvements have been made so that this is now possible?
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USB data rates have increased with each version. USB 1 could go up to 12 Mbits/sec. USB 2 maxed out at 480 Mbits/sec. USB 3 can do 5Gbits/sec. USB 3.1 is up to 10 Gbit/sec. USB C connectors appeared with USB 3.
More bandwidth available means more connections into one port with no issues.
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