On Tuesday, March 24, 2020 09:10:16 AM Joe wrote: > USB hubs are not peer-peer like the old Ethernet hubs. USB is a (quite > complex) master-submaster-slave protocol with each device negotiating > for speed and bandwidth with the one 'above'. The electronics of a USB > hub shares out the bandwidth it is offered to its slave ports and must > talk to its master through the input port/cable, in this case the C > socket. The (sub-)master in a PC must connect to the hub and its slaves > through the designated input cable, it cannot talk to other slaves > while plugged into one of the slave ports.
Ahh, interesting -- thank you!
