Advantages: Small, Light, Easy to use Disadvantages: Short cable
...hub in question was the Belkin USB 2.0 Pocket Hub. Bought for just 10p in the charity shop, these normally retail around £20.00 so a real bargain was gained here. What you get for your money is a small 3 port hub no bigger than an audio cassette tape. With this is a power adaptor.
The hub works by plugging into a USB port on your computer. This uses up a port of course but it creates an extra two for use with other devices. The hub has a very short ... ...what would you expect.
Belkin make a series of hubs and other devices for computers. The website is quite comprehensive but slow. They have good support through email and a telephone line and there is a good Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list to consult before contacting them.
Belkin offer a great free replacement service for their products if they are faulty or missing parts. The items must be registered first which you can do online or over ...
jacqui_1 21.01.2004
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Belkin Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Pocket Hub - hub - 4 ports
Advantages: Small, USB2 Disadvantages: Spacing of the USB ports
...going to stick with my Belkin 4-port USB hub. Costing £20 from PC World (and probably a lot less form anywhere else), it's small enough to carry around, has it's own built-in cable to connect to the PC and comes with a small(ish) power adapted. The power supply is only needed this if you are planning to attach devices like web-cams and hard drives, which also take their power from the USB interface, to the hub.
It's USB 2.0 compliant, so your USB2 ... ...but it's also fully backward compatible with older USB1.1 devices so stuff shouldn't stop working. If you're running Windows XP there's no need for any drivers - just plug it in and away you go.
Finished in grey plastic with a row of 5 LEDs on the top, a red one indicates the devices is plugged in, and there's a green LED for each port that lights up when you attach something to the relevant port. They don't really serve much of a purpose, but at ...
LegendaryMrDude 25.11.2006
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