| I've got 3 of these and will continue to buy them! |
I store a lot of video files on my laptop so I need a lot of space. I have 8 external hard drives attached to my laptop through 2 of these Kensington DomeHubs. Along with the hard drives, I connect numerous other items. I have filled up 2 sets of these hubs so I just purchased a 3rd. It's amazing to be able to use 1 USB port on my laptop to connect all these extras. I have been using the Kensington model for a couple years and have yet to have a problem with them. As I add more data to my storage area, I'll continue to add more Kensington 7 port hubs to connect this data. |
5 Rating
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| Great form but lacks sufficient power to serve power-hungry devices |
After reading all the reviews before purchasing this hub, concerned mostly with the reliability, I went ahead and bought it because it seemed be a stylish yet functional hub that was also weighted enough to keep from twisting and rocking off its base when its ports were all loaded.
As far as the form, it is perfect design and handles all stiff cabling connected to it without lifting off the table or being pulled to a particular side.
The USB cables stay tight in the ports. The power plug, however, tends to be a little loose and can accidently be pulled out when handling the hub.
The major drawback, however, is its poor power serving abilities. Hard drives, iPhone (3G) and iPod all seem to malfunction in weird ways when used with the hub. When transferring large data to hard drives, my USB speakers (Harmon Kardon) and other sometimes other ports disconnect and are no longer recognized, sometimes necessitating a reboot.
If syncing large data such as music, photos and/or videos to my iPhone 3G, iTunes will ALWAYS disconnect the iPhone 3G during the Sync.
Basically, this hub is only useful for low-to-no power consuming USB devices, such as flashdrives and printers.
To summarize, as just a "plain" hub, this works as expected. And its aesthetic design is beyond reproach, with its callout feature being a weighted base. But being sold as a POWERED hub, it fails miserably. And thus, even though this hub has more than enough ports to handle my current platoon of USB devices, for my power hungry USB devices, my search continues as I will be forced to have TWO USB hubs on my desk. |
3 Rating
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| Works Great! |
Our old hub started acting up and so I wanted a replacement hub quickly. I have a lot of devices I like to have connected to my laptop when I'm at home (printer, camera cable, scanner, external drive, numeric keypad etc.) I love having everything plugged into one central hub so all I have to do is connect or disconnect a single cable. This is just what I needed! |
5 Rating
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| So Far so GOOD |
I read every good and bad review for this before I bought it. I researched these hubs for hours. I finally made up my mind that despite the few nay sayers I was going to roll the dice and try it. I'm glad I did... This hub is still woking brilliantly. Its size and shape is very compatible with my desk at work. The weight of this product is a plus too. the extra port at the top is very convenient for quick and frequent ins and outs. I love this doggone product! Right now I have 2 Western Digital external hard drives, a Kingston memory stick, a mouse and a keyboard hooked up this Kensington hub. I don't think that it will support any more hard drives though. My laptop doen't have enough power. It's working fine out here in Iraq so far. |
5 Rating
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| Terrific peripheral |
Typical Kensington product - works right out of the box, durable, well-designed, attractive, and highly functional.
I have several external HD's, a scanner, a camera and an keyboard/mouse combo, which all work through this hub. This thing has been rock solid for me. I'd like to buy another for my other machine. |
5 Rating
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