Hey there fellow neck-beards and grey-beards!

I have a motherboard with USB3.1 and I need to down clock it so its always 5 Gbit/s and never faster.

Is there any way to do this, my DuckDuckGo Fu is not finding the right combination of words.

I use Arch BTW…

Just kidding im still running Manjaro.

Thanks.

  • cmnyboEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    Have you tried using it with a hub that only supports 5gbps?

    • infinitevalence@discuss.onlineOPEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Not sure what you are suggesting… The issue im trying to fix is that this extender only passes 5Gbit/s so if I plug in something that can negotiate up to 10 or lower it will try to configure the lanes that way and the extender will fail.

      The only device I have managed to get working is a USB WD Elements HD. Everything else I have tried that should support 3.0 never connects.

      So I wanted to test to see if I could lock the port at 5Gbit/s to eliminate auto negotiation from my trouble shooting.

      • cmnyboEnglish
        8·
        8 months ago

        Connect a 5gbps USB hub to your computer. Now you have a USB port that is limited to 5gbps to connect your extender to.