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| Sabrent SBT-UHPA USB 2.0 High Speed External Seven Port Mini Hub w/ LED's & AC Power Adapter |
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List Price: $14.99
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Manufacturer: SABRENT
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Sabrent
EAN: 0188218000057
Feature: Support Inquiries - Support@kinamax.com
Label: SABRENT
Manufacturer: SABRENT
Model: SBT-UHPA
Publisher: SABRENT
Studio: SABRENT
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Support Inquiries - Support@kinamax.com
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Editorial Reviews:
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The USB 2.0 Hub 4 Port is a high-speed Universal Serial Bus (USB) Hub that has more user-friendly features than the current I/O interfaces such as serial/parallel ports. It works with all types of USB devices including digital cameras, video cameras, printers, scanners, joysticks and more. With hot-swapping feature, it allows you to attach/remove USB devices without re-configure setting or turning your system off. With this USB 2.0 Hub 4 port, you can enjoy instant, no hassle new peripheral connections and expansions.The USB 2.0 High Speed Hub has 4 ports that will connect to either the USB Revision 2.0 High Speed or the USB Revision 1.1 peripheral devices. This High Speed Hub allows you to add multiple high performance USB 2.0 peripherals to the PC. Moreover, this product is fully backwards compatible with the USB Revision 1.1 products. The USB High Speed is fully compliant with the USB 2.0 specifications and permits you to connect up to a maximum of 127 USB devices to you PC. Furthermore with its increased bandwidth, this Hub will allow you to connect devices such as storage devices, scanners, printers, DVD drives, CDRW drives, MO (Magneto-Optical) drives, and digital cameras to your computer.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: An awful, time-wasting mess. Don't buy this one!
Comment: I wish I had read these reviews before getting this. The general consensus is correct. Yes, it's cheap, but it's unreliable and flimsy. The port connectors wiggle around, and despite how nice it looks lit up, it won't provide very much power to your devices. For example, I tried to plug in a mix of 5 devices, including a bus-powered synth keyboard, and I noticed the lights went out on some of the connected gadgets. It just wasn't delivering enough juice!
Also, absolutely don't expect to get good throughput connecting a hard drive to this. The "High Speed" claim is deceptive and inaccurate: I could only attain USB 1.1 speeds. I repeated this experiment several times with different hard drives plugged into different ports here, all while the Sabrent hub was plugged into the USB adapter as well.
On Windows, I also ran into confusion and crashes when trying to plug too many devices in at the same time. I don't know if this is a broader Windows problem or limited to poor-quality USB hubs like this, but it was very tiring to repeatedly restart and incrementally add devices, instead of being able to do them one after another.
Please save your time and energy. Spend a few bucks more and get a better hub -- after reading other reviews, I've got a Cables To Go one on the way, and hope it fares much better than this poorly-manufactured nonsense.
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Summary: Flashing piece of junk....
Comment: This is an absolute piece of junk.
Most items I plug into won't work. I don't beleive it is supplying the correct power they need to work.... with OR without the supplied AC adapter connected.
The lights don't even do anything meaningful. I had figured (before I bought it) that the LED's would correspond to each connection.... they don't! They just blink randomly. My three year old loved it! They got so annoying that I had to cover the whole darn thing with electrical tape so I wouldn't have to see them anymore!
I finally gave up on it and it is now in my three year old's room as entertainment. He likes to turn the light out and watch it flash random colors on the walls of his room.
So, in conclusion... don't buy this unless you are three years old and like to watch random colored LED's blink on and off in the darken room.... because that is all it's good for! :-P
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Summary: Useless
Comment: This one taught me a lesson about going cheap on something that's under $20 to start with. Even when it does connect a given peripheral, there's no guarantee that it will connect it next time the system is rebooted. These are low-power-draw peripherals - card reader, Zen MP3 player, MagicJack phone adapter, etc. Next time I'll spend $20 for something that works. This one goes into the pit.
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Summary: works great
Comment: I have used usb devices since they barely worked in windows 98 - and i would say a usb hub is a terrific device. this hub is no exception, as it replaced another 7 port i had, that wouldnt take more than 4 devices. I have had no issues, although i will be putting black tape over the FLASHING lights in the center of the unit - thats my only issue - other than that, i bought a second, as the first i have had for 3 months, and am quite happy with it, except for the flashing.
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Summary: Works fine - when it works.
Comment: Bought this product about 6-8 months ago. Within about 1 month I had my first experience where it wasn't working for one particular port. I have found it "hiccup" a couple of times since then where the port I'm using doesn't work.
It works fine when it works, but I want something to work 100% of time and not have to worry about it possibly not working. This works about 90% of time, but is quite frustrating if you want to do something quickly and its acting flaky that day.
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