D-Link DUB-H7 High Speed USB 2.0 7-Port Hub
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Customer Review: A Nice Product
Summary: 5 Stars
This unit works great--I have no complaints. Here's what the experience of buying this unit has taught me:
1) Spend the extra few $$ for the 7-port unit. I first was going to buy the 4-port version, but decided that the larger unit was probably a good bet. After I hooked it up, USB devices seemed to come out of the woodwork.
2) I put the unit on my desktime, tucked behind my monitor. I've found that it's much more convenient to plug and unplug USB devices when the USB ports are near at hand. Even the two ports on the front of my Dell
Dimension are less convenient, since the computer box is a few feet away.
3) If you plug any USB 1.1 devices into this unit, all ports will work at the USB 1.1 speed. You'll lose the USB 2.0 speed advantage on the other ports. All of my devices are now USB 2.0, so this isn't an issue for me. If you have older 1.1 devices, this may be a real pain, though.
Customer Review: Excellent hub for the price
Summary: 5 Stars
After months of having to swap cables whenever I wanted to update my iPod, get images off of my camera or even transfer ringtones via bluetooth, I finally bought this hub. It is WONDERFUL. I have my all-in-one printer, photo printer, iPod cable, camera cable and Bluetooth adapters plugged into it since it arrived and I have not had any issues.
It is small enough to fit on the back of my desk where it is easy to reach to plug in a flash drive, but out of sight to ease the clutter. The only con , in my opinion, is that it has an external power source. Not big enough of a worry to change my 5-star rating, it's just a nuisance when you have as many peripherals as I do! :)
All-in-all, this is cheaper than buying 2-4 port hubs at my local B&M store and is smaller and more convenient. If (heaven forbid) I find or buy more USB components, I will definitely get another one of these.
Customer Review: Working Perfectly After A Year!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had this hub for about a year now and have put heavy use on it. There hasn't been a hiccup with it at all.
I run multiple external hard drives (500 gig each) through it, a card reader, wireless mouse, a printer, an all-in-one scanner/printer/copier, internet modem, and it has handled them all with no problems whatsoever. So I can only advise on my personal experiences with the device. It doesn't even get warm.
The "new" slimline power supply is nice, but it is marked as 120v, not 240v. So for those going overseas, you will need another device to use this.
I'm getting ready to buy another one of these so as far as I'm concerned, it's the perfect little hub. Later this year, when I convert the house to Cat5 ethernet, I'll be looking at the D-Link switch based on my very positive experience with this hub and the D-Link wireless router that I also have.
Customer Review: Does exactly as advertised, AC power makes peripherals reliable
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the cheapest, most convenient items you can buy for a computer setup... particularly one where you have your laptop docked and need a plethora of USB ports. I needed one of these because I setup a small home studio for audio recording.
Most USB hubs DO NOT come with an AC power adaptor nor do they support one. Unfortunately, most USB 2.0 products today (the really useful ones at least), require a certain draw of power that USB hubs w/o AC power cannot provide.
The D-Link model is cheap, works as advertised, looks a bit ugly but has nice lights indicating proper connection of each device. I have not experienced any speed slowdowns associated with other, cheaper models. I am a software engineer by occupation and would highly recommend this product for the price. You can't lose.
Customer Review: An effortless USB hub
Summary: 5 Stars
No matter how many USB ports I had, I always seemed to need more. I had ports on my computer, more on my monitor, even two on my keyboard, and still I needed more.
After researching a number of hubs I chose this one and it is great.
I am not good at the technical workings of a computer, so I was worried that the installation would be hard or that there would be conflicts with other hardware. Nothing like that happened.
I followed the set up instructions; it took 10 minutes at most, and I was in business. Right now I have four USB devices plugged into the hub and all work just as they should. I have not had trouble with anything I added to the hub. And miraculously, I have three open ports to use later.
This hub does exactly what it should with no fuss or bother.