Timeline for What is the difference between the USB ports on the front/back of the XBox 360?
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| Nov 22, 2010 at 23:32 | comment | added | senloe | This is an interesting thread. I've had my kinect plugged into the front usb port of my older 360 and it has been working/performing well. Maybe I'll move it to the back now after reading this. | |
| Nov 17, 2010 at 18:58 | comment | added | Doozer Blake | It's not just the power, it's the amount of data throughput that it needs is why it has to be on the back one. As they explain it in the podcast and in my answer it says that the USB port on back is on it's own bus which means it handles the amount of data much better, maybe I wasn't clear enough. | |
| Nov 17, 2010 at 17:02 | comment | added | JohnFx | Exactly my point. I'm talking about the original 360. The Kinect I bought has a separate power brick, so the reasoning that it needs the back USB port for extra power doesn't make sense. | |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 23:51 | comment | added | Doozer Blake | The 360-S has a special connector that is USB-based, but has more power than your typical USB connector which isn't enough to power the Kinect, that's what I was referring too. That Kinect does NOT have to have another power cord and brick. A Kinect connected to the original 360 has to have it's own power cord and brick because the regular USB connectors can't power it alone. | |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 20:49 | comment | added | JohnFx | Why would Kinect need extra power? It has it's own power cord and brick? | |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 2:15 | comment | added | Doozer Blake | Correct, the Kinect has it's own special connector on the back of the 360s which is based on USB but has extra power, they were only referring to the original 360. They do specifically say that the front connections can't handle the needs of the Kinect on the original 360. | |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 2:00 | comment | added | JohnFx | On the 360s you don't use a USB connection. It uses another type of cable (or so I've heard). I wonder if the issue is that the front usb ports are just slower due to not having that direct connection. I'll have to experiment with that. | |
| Nov 15, 2010 at 23:42 | history | answered | Doozer Blake | CC BY-SA 2.5 |