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I've gone through 2 USB hubs for my laptop and they both seemed to be unreliable. Both of these USB hubs are not powered.
If I plug both keyboard and mouse, one of the devices won't work. Or if I plugin an external drive, then something else is sure not to work.
Is the issue that it's not powered?
Or is it something with the OS configuration (win7 32bit)?
If someone can recommend an inexpensive hub (preferably non-powered) for 4-5 devices, that would be awesome.
1USB 2.0 only supports 500mA per port, power consumption of devices on a hub usually requires that the hub is powered, unless it will only hold flash drives – MaQleod – 2011-03-22T04:31:29.077
Watch out - buying recommendation Qs are likely to be closed. A quick edit would fix this. – Linker3000 – 2011-03-22T07:15:29.637