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arrived quickly, good quality of the build. bought this for someone, it was just as advertised. If this is what you want or need, go for it, it is a good product ;)
It looks really cool by itself like there are no cords. To get the 2.0 speed you have to plug it in with the adapter provided with the package. As long as there isn't a mouse, printer and joystick plugged into it at one time, it will work without a the power cable.
I had no idea that this product was not "self powered." I did not find that information in the specs. I wanted it for travel - but without an electric outlet - forget it.
Everything works perfect. Highly recommend. I bought this hub plus extension cable in order to connect couple of external drives (WD and Acomdata), digital tv tuner and laptop cooler.All hooked up perfectly without any problem. Just a perfect hub.
The whole thing easily fits in a pocket without having to wrap up any kind of cord. I did notice early on that hooking up my MP3 player and mouse at the same time would give me some odd behavior. I left my mouse and printer plugged into the hub and I figured that would be fine because I didn't always have the printer on and the printer powers itself of course. I usually have three cords plugged into it at all times: an MP3 sync cable, a printer cable, a mouse.
I know it's not my mouse's problem either, it works fine plugged directly into my laptop.So much for convenience and so much for impulse buying. I had the exact same problems. So eventually I stopped using the hub altogether.I eventually hooked up the power supply, which was a major pain because of how far away the nearest outlet is, and I was utterly amazed. I was going to use it with my laptop so I didn't want something with a huge cord or anything. I saw this one and I thought it would be perfect.I do really like the fact that it is so small. I don't mean without the power supply attached, I mean period. I eventually started using the MP3 player on its own separate port.
My mouse would turn on and off randomly. I had a gift card to *electronics store* so I thought I'd buy a hub. It also swivels to fit into difficult USB ports.One thing that took me a while to notice is that it doesn't handle multiple devices well. Well, eventually it got to where my mouse would act up even though the printer was turned off.
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