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Question: If I use two ports will the device connected be slower than if I were using just one?
Document: Not to much to say except it's working great for me. I'm using it right now on a laptop with only 3 USB ports, which aren't enough when I have a printer, mouse (for CAD drawings) and external hard drive connected and then want to plug in an SD card adapter. Plus occasionally I'll find that two plugs won't fit together in the close-spaced laptop ports. This small hub lets me use everything easily and its flat shape fits neatly in the laptop case.
Went through two of these units. First one just died after a few months. The red light went out and all devices connected to it ceased to function. Sent it back to Belkin, who replaced it. With the second one, two of the ports just died. I can't recommend this device.
For me this is great. I have two. One is hooked to a lap top so I can use a larger monitor, ear things, 360 controller and still have the lap top usb ports for whatever else I need. The other is hooked to the 360 so I can use the wireless and have something external for dlc content I'm not using. I don't have cloud, don't have live, so this serves my purpose just fine.
I purchased my first one in May of 2008 and I am still using it. Since then I have purchased two more and I plan to purchase two more today. I love the fact that they are so compact making them easy to carry. I often use them with my laptops - much easier to use than having to hunt around on the laptop looking for the usb ports. This is especially important to me since I often use an external monitor and keyboard & mouse with my laptops.
This item allows us to connect multiple USB devices to our computer; however, it seems that the connection is slower for those items we have connected to it; therefore, we don't use it for those items where we need a fast connection speed.
It looks sleek in the picture, but it is rather inconvenient in practical use. As other reviewers have noted, the four ports being at opposite ends of the device mean that it is nearly impossible to organize your cables all in a row. One or two cables have to be sticking out in an odd direction.Consider the layout of your USB devices before purchasing this. If you can picture cables coming in from four directions, then this hub should be nearly perfect.
My first review on Amazon...I am too busy for that.I have tried a few hubs but this one is awesome. Easily recognized in a USB 3.0 port, where my USB 3.0 HDD was not recognized. I now have that USB 3.0 portable HDD, and two dongles connected; and yet the fourth port still charges my Blackberry while everything else is in use ! !
The Belkin USB 2.0 4-port ultra-mini hub does everything it supposed to and fits my needs of having extra ports for the various USB connected devices I like to plug into my PC. Mostly I use it to plug my USB 2.0 24-in-1 reader/writer and my MP3 player and it sure beats having to try and locate the two USB ports on my Dell PC that sits under my modular computer desk.
I picked one of these up for my wife's at-home office workspace - she has a wireless trackball and two usb phone cords she uses whenever she's working from home - and her laptop is a smaller one with two USB ports, making changing cords a PITA during the workday. We added the phone chargers, the wireless adapters for the trackball and keyboard, and now everything is just connected already - she plugs it in and is ready to go in minutes.
Works pretty good for the most part - I can sync my phone, charge myX-Mini II Capsule Speaker (Black), and use a USB drive while only using one USB port! Two small issues: it takes a lot longer to charge the phone using this versus just plugging the phone straight into my laptop and sometimes I have to unplug the mini hub in order for my mouse to work.
Answer: In short, no.  USB as a protocol supports far more devices through a single port than you can physically put on this hub.  And, because of how the data is packaged and transmitted, it all moves at the same speed, regardless of the number of sources.  For example, I have 3 devices (a wireless mouse, a printer and an external HardDrive) running through mine, and they all perform perfectly.