Advantages: value
Disadvantages: none

...The D-Link 805TP is a great hub to use if you have very little desk space available, and need to network up to 5 workstations together either in a workgroup or a LAN environment. The Hub has 5 LED lights on (5th port is the uplink port to connect to your local LAN if you desire). The remaining 4 ports have UTP connections with corresponding LED's. Power is drawn from a AC/DC jack plug transformer. Great value annd a great buy! If you need a hub then this is the one to buy!... Read review

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Advantages: Small and excelent value for money
Disadvantages: very few if any!

...The Netgear DS104 is a small 4 port hub. Measuring no more than 25cm x 10cm x 3cm is is small enough to fit on any desk. The hub has 4 auto sensing 10/100 mbit ports, one of which is equiped with an uplink button if you are expanding your network. LED's display power on, collision status on both 10 and 100 networks. Each seperate port has LED's which denote the spedd connection and blink when receiving data. It is powered from an external power supply. I purchased the hub from action.com and paid £31.99 +VAT. This is a slightly lower price than the normal consumer would pay as we have a business account manager. I use the hub as an extension to my desktop network connection as I frequently need multiple connections when configuring laptops etc. The hub does not come with any CAT5 leads so don't forget to order them... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, 100% practical, excellent build quality
Disadvantages: Only 10MB

...The DS104 hub is a standard 10MB 4 port network hub. It comes as the basic component of many of the Netgear card/hub packages and will server you well. Currently I've used and worked with 4 of these little beauties over the past 1.5 years and found them all to work perfectly. There have been no Dead On Arrival (DOA) units and each one has operated 100% from day-1 without failure or error. Each port is what Netgear call a Vista port, these basically consist of a socket(port) and two LEDs which let you know the status of the connection, i.e. :- Plugged IN/OUT & Transferring data/producing errors. The power supply is completely external and so the unit is tiny in size. Another usefull feature is that 1 port can act as an uplink to another hub. So there are perfect is you have network wall ports in an area but cannot get enough... Read review

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Advantages: Small, neat, 4 ports
Disadvantages: Useless

...The sitecom 4 port USB2.0 pocket hub... probably the most useless thing I have ever bought. As USB hubs go, this one looks pretty reasonable, was priced fairly and the box led me to believe it would do what I needed from a USB hub, which i the same thing I would expect all USB hubs to do. Well I couldn't have been more wrong. On first impression it seemed ok. I plugged it into my pc and then plugged my USB mouse into the hub. Not a problem... everything as it should be. So that was that. I'd bought the hub and I was happy with it. No for long though. The surprise came when I plugged in my USB jumpdrive. The drive would not work and neither would the mouse. This seems to be a common occurance with having more than 1 item plugged into the hub. Email communication with Sitecom was most interesting. I was told by them that in most cases... Read review

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Advantages: Works straight out of the box, Easily Portable
Disadvantages: Short connection cable, Only gives you 3 more ports

...I bought this Hub for my Dell Laptop around a month ago now. It is a good product, and was particuarly easy to install. It works straight out of the box and the computer installs the drivers for you, so there is no need to install any extra software. I dont receive any noticable performance drop of something that is connected through the HUB, although my Wireless mouse which uses a USB connection is for some reason not recognized when used through the Hub. This could be a problem with the mouse, although I have had no problems with it so far (It is a Logitech v500 Cordless mouse). I would recommend the product for someone who is running out of USB ports on a Laptop computer, although I think there are better products out there if portability is not a factor (ie a Desktop computer). Another point worthy of note is that it has a very short... Read review

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