Ports and Connectors

A port is the point at which a peripheral attaches to or communicates with a system unit (sometimes referred to as a jack)
while a connector is any connector used within computers or to connect computers to networks, printers or other devices.

1. Ports and Connectors Haider Ali Malik Department of Botany University of Sargodha

2. In the past connecting devices to your computer are at ease when we only use the keyboard, mouse, monitor and printers but now We have to deal with USB, FireWire, network jacks and an assortment of audio and video connections.

3. A port is the point at which a peripheral attaches to or communicates with a system unit (sometimes referred to as a jack )

4. A connector is any connector used within computers or to connect computers to networks, printers or other devices.

5. The PS/2 connector are use for connecting keyboard and mouse on the modern PCs. The PS2 mouse connector and port is usually green in colour to distinguish it from the PS2 keyboard, which is purple.

6. A USB port can connect up to 127 different peripherals together with a single connector Many digital cameras and memory card readers connect to the USB port on a computer.

7. A type of cabling technology for transferring data to and from digital devices at high speed. FireWire are typically faster than those that connect via USB.

8. LAN or (Local Area Network) uses a CAT5 cable and a RJ45 connection. The CAT 5 cable  is also called the Ethernet Cable. Network connection generally uses a 10/100 Mbps speed. This means it has two different speeds 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps.

9. The printer connects to your computer with a Parallel connector. This connector has 25 pins.

10. Other types of ports include:

11. A Bluetooth wireless port adapter converts a USB port into a Bluetooth port A smart phone might communicate with a notebook computer using an IrDA port

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