4 port USB 2.0 Hub £1 at Poundland (merged)

ShimSham

I thought that low powered stuff, such as mice and keyboards needed powered hubs and self-powered goods such as printers and external hard drives could manage on a usb hub with no external power?

gromituk

You can plug as many self-powered devices (i.e. those with mains adaptors) into a hub as you like, plus at least one bus-powered device. There is no guarantee that more than one bus-powered device will work simultaneously on an unpowered hub. You should get away with a mouse and a keyboard, but anything that has motors in it (such as a scanner or bus-powered portable hard drive), complicated electronics (such as an ADSL modem), or which charge batteries (such as a mobile phone or MP3 player) will likely take all the power the port on your computer can provide.

Patr100

gromituk wrote:

To the OP: is it really the case that hubs need drivers in Windows 98? I know mass storage devices do, but this is not the same thing. I believe that hubs are an integral part of the USB spec.

Yes, it SHOULD work ok in Win98 with USB support - - No additional drivers -

Thats also what it says on the packet -along with MacG3 & G4

If not, return it.

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jaffa30

Nice find i will be fetting one tomorrow.

Jaffa

Edinburghlass_2

gromituk wrote:

You can plug as many self-powered devices (i.e. those with mains adaptors) into a hub as you like, plus at least one bus-powered device. There is no guarantee that more than one bus-powered device will work simultaneously on an unpowered hub. You should get away with a mouse and a keyboard, but anything that has motors in it (such as a scanner or bus-powered portable hard drive), complicated electronics (such as an ADSL modem), or which charge batteries (such as a mobile phone or MP3 player) will likely take all the power the port on your computer can provide.

quick question gromituk, I have a usb hub and plugged in a usb laptop mouse as I like the shape and size but it isn't recognised?

mr_fishbulb

Edinburghlass wrote:

quick question gromituk, I have a usb hub and plugged in a usb laptop mouse as I like the shape and size but it isn't recognised?

That's not a question - that's a statement

Do you have anything else plugged into the USB hub?
Does the mouse work when you plug it directly into a USB port on your computer?

Edinburghlass_2

mr_fishbulb wrote:

That's not a question - that's a statement

Do you have anything else plugged into the USB hub?
Does the mouse work when you plug it directly into a USB port on your computer?

oops sorry

I use the hub as my 2 usb ports are at the back of the pc and it takes forever to crawl under the desk etc to get at them so no, as yet I haven't tried it direct into the usb port.

Brockyman

Poundland also sell great CD marker pens at 6 for £1. Their Photo Inkjet paper at 10 sheets for £1 is the best I have ever used but the manager at the Blackpool store reckons that it sells out almost as soon as they get it in.
Ian.

Vintage67

I've had one of these hubs a couple of months now - don't think they're full speed USB2 though (e.g. transferring files to a USB drive is a lot slower via the hub than direct from the PC port), although they're great for connecting mice etc and for occasional data transfer where speed's not important. I can second the recommendation for the photo paper (40 sheets of for 4x6 for £1), though its very printer-dependant. It gives good results on my Canon Pixma 4000 (not quite as good as the genuine Canon stuff but at a fraction of the price and fine for everyday use), but very blotchy on an Epson Stylus 700.

aris

If you don't have a poundland near you, you can buy these hubs for £2.50 on ebay - and that includes P&P. If Poundland is more than 10 miles away from you, you are easily quids in when you take into account petrol & parking costs.

Be sure to search under USB 1.1 hubs (these poundland hubs are really USB 1.1 - which is USB 2.0 compatible).