GUH274 IOGear 4 Port USB, Minor flaws, otherwise..

Overall Rating33333

Minor flaws, otherwise works quite well.

This device is as advertised, small, portable, easy to use, etc. It comes with an A/C adapter that is not required for non-bus powered devices. The adapter is useful (and necessary it appears) for bus powered external drives. It has a 3 year warrenty and is extremely reasonably priced.There are 3 minor flaws:1. The device does heat up as noted by the previous reviewer.2. The uplink cable is mounted upside down, so the device sits on its back when connected to my laptop. This is minorly annoying, and I could turn it over, but I’m afraid it will cause damage to the cable.3. This device cannot power a bus-powered device without the A/C adapter, even if its the only thing plugged into the hub. This is understandable since those devices draw nearly the entire 500mA supported by USB ports.All in all, a decent buy, even with these minor flaws, I am very happy with it.

Update (2/7/2012):

The featured review for this product, IOGear 4 Port USB 2.0 MicroHub GUH274 Electronics, was written by Alex.

The average rating for this item is 3 out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.

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Reviews (3)

Anonymous

July 8th, 2010 at 5:11 pm    


Overall Rating33333

Good, but far from perfect
The first thing you notice is that this hub is incredibly small, and very cleanly designed. But once you plug in the benefits of size fade quickly … it is incredibly hot very quickly, probably because it is so small. It just does not seem like a good trade off. Opt for a larger, more public solution if the size is important.


Tom Ryan

July 14th, 2010 at 6:04 am    


Overall Rating22222

Worked and then failed
I bought two of the hubs in June 2004. One of them failed in about a month of using it with a HP/Compaq Laptop. IOGEAR replaced it for me. I am now using it with a Dell Laptop and it seems to be doing fine. The other one I used with a Mac for about a year and a half now and it has failed. I am beyond warranty so I will go with a different hub to replace it. It does run hot so I think it must have good ventilation to hold up well.


Alex

July 28th, 2010 at 2:50 pm    


Overall Rating44444

Minor flaws, otherwise works quite well.
Rated 4 stars.


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