User's Manual

Page 15 – S5.5 Monitoring Software Manual Rev 1.2 for Software Ver 1.0
Appendix A
General notes on connecting your USB system
• If you connect your receivers one at a time as you load the drivers you should not experience any issues.
Once your system is connected however, you should NOT unplug or rearrange USB connections. If you need
to change the order of connections you should:
1. Disconnect all your receivers from the USB hubs and power them down.
2. Disconnect your USB hubs from the PC and power them down.
3. Shut down your PC.
4. Restart your PC, power up the hubs and reconnect them to the PC.
5. Power up and reconnect your receivers one at a time in the new order.
You will not need to load drivers this time.
Once your system is set up we recommend that you label the USB cables close to the type B connector on
your receivers. This way you know which receiver will appear where on the monitoring screen bearing mind
the display is in rows, left to right.
• You should imagine your USB connections as a tree branching out from ports on your PC. For
multiple devices, a USB 2 hub should be attached to any USB 2 port on your PC. If the hub
does not have enough ports you should ‘cascade’ multiple hubs. You may use more than one
USB port on your PC, connect Hub1 to Port I and Hub 2 to Port 2 for example.
Only use USB 2 ‘Hi Speed’ hubs. This ensures the system will connect to your PC’s enhanced
USB controller for maximum efficiency.
The first hub attached to your PC acts as a root hub to the rest of the system. A 4 port ‘root’
hub can take 4 connections from other hubs. We recommend a maximum of 12 receivers.
• The Trantec USB monitoring application will display the S5 series receivers in the order that
they are connected to the hubs. The further away the receiver is from the PC USB port(s) the
later the order on the PC screen.
For example: An S5 attached to Port 1 on a Hub which is attached to Port 1 on the ‘Root’ hub
will be displayed first on screen an S5 attached to port 2 will appear second an so on. If you
are using 4 Port hubs then another S5 would be attached to Port 1 on a second hub which is
attached to Port 2 on the ‘Root’ hub. We could then attach 3 more S5’s to this hub. A third
hub would be used to attach more receivers using Port 3 on the ‘Root’ hub.