USB 4 way hub

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Bought one of these from Argos, it's a Dynamode and had all good reviews, it worked well for the first day then with no warning the mouse vanished.
I am wondering what I am doing wrong.
The blurb on the box says it is good for simultaneous connection of keyboards, mice and usb storage at the same time but here I am with nothing working.

Any ideas?

blobbyrob

What have you got it connected to Desktop or Laptop computer?

blobbyrob

If Desktop make sure its connected to one of the USB connections at the back, so directly to the motherboard.

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It's on a desktop and yes it is connected at the back.
I have been trying other things on it and although it charges some things such as my gps watch, it won't let me download the info on the watch, I alsi tried to download a photo from my camera but it would not connect.
The microphone does work with it though.

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 I think I will just take it back.

blobbyrob

I bought one from Amazon a few years ago & I could never get it to play nicely. Sometimes it would connect fine, other times not or it would randomly give connection errors. I gave up in the end & dumped it. 

Jenni_D

I got a USB C to USB A 4-port hub in March last year via Amazon ... it has worked fine with my work laptop (Dell) - well apart from one of the USB A ports not working out-of-the-box but I didn't bother RMA-ing it as I only needed 3 ports anyway, and for £9.99 it wasn't really worth going to the bother as I needed it there and then. (I bought it at the start of lockdown when I started working from home).

Neil_Jones

duncanthedog said:

Bought one of these from Argos, it's a Dynamode and had all good reviews, it worked well for the first day then with no warning the mouse vanished.
I am wondering what I am doing wrong.
The blurb on the box says it is good for simultaneous connection of keyboards, mice and usb storage at the same time but here I am with nothing working.

Any ideas?

This is normally a power issue.  USB hubs come in two flavours - powered and unpowered.  You an use a powered hub without its power brick, so if you bought the powered one, plug it in.

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Neil_Jones said:

duncanthedog said:

Bought one of these from Argos, it's a Dynamode and had all good reviews, it worked well for the first day then with no warning the mouse vanished.
I am wondering what I am doing wrong.
The blurb on the box says it is good for simultaneous connection of keyboards, mice and usb storage at the same time but here I am with nothing working.

Any ideas?

This is normally a power issue.  USB hubs come in two flavours - powered and unpowered.  You an use a powered hub without its power brick, so if you bought the powered one, plug it in.

It is a powered one and it is plugged in.

Honestly, I have gone through all the obvious permutation that I can think of before asking on here.

mluton

Is it in a USB 3 Port (Blue in Colour or have SS on the port) ?

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It's on the back of the PC so not easy to see.