i cant get these cause i have no where to plug them in right now i have to plug in my laptop, 3 hard drives, monitor, 2 sets of speakers, gyro mouse charger, alram clock, printer, n4 video processor(TV tuner), optional chair message seat, lamp....yes i am in college. Now what w00t needs to sell is a HUGE power strip, like 20 plugs. I would be in for 3 haha maybe not just 1 would be fine.

I don't know if my order went through or not, just sitting at the order confirmation page. And I don't want to get two more...

I need two. One for me and one for my brother who I just sent a laptop to.

People seem pretty happy with it on Amazon.com, and the price is right... I'd get myself a brace o' hubs but it turns out I don't have enough gadgets to plug into them!

The AC power is a good thing. You don't have to use it. Having the AC adapter gives you the option to plug it in; some power-hungry devices won't run connected to an unpowered hub.

your order is processing.
should just be a bit now...


Must be a good woot... Im waiting and waiting and waiting for it to process and Im on DSL. Anyone else haveing this problem?

Finaly... Looking forward to recieving. I wonder if I should have bought a few....

johannvonperfect wrote:I have a laptop, so this will QUADRUPLE the number of ports I've got! Excellent!

Edit: it is possible with 2 ports, if you plug 4 into each. My fault

MichaelJung wrote:are these any better than the $5 ones from ledshoppe?

Yes... These are powered. Add a couple of items to the ports and you get an error message on the ones you are talking about.

ok, that is all it took... for me to ask about my order and it went through. sorta like it never works until you are on the phone with tech support... g'nite all

Wow, a 'Lone Wolf and Cub' refrence. Color me impressed.

without the ac adaptor these hub will not perform up to usb 2.0 potential, i have a usb 2.0 splitter and it performs better than my old usb 1.1 splitter but it is not nearly as fast as my unsplit port

Product specs

Amazon.com link

There seems to be a lot of confusion about the "AC adapter" part of it...

The computer only spits out so much current to the USB devices. If you are planning on using your USB hub to just connect a mouse, bluetooth dongle, keyboard, cup-cooler, and LED reading light - you could probably get by just fine on bus power alone. (Although it will drain your laptop battery much much faster to rely on bus power...)

On the other hand, if you are planning on using this to charge five Blackberrys... or power your metal-cutting laser pointer... you will definitely want to use the AC adapter.

Actually - for devices that charge through USB - a travel hub like this one + an AC adapter would be great. (Blackberrys charge through USB... I can't think of anything else off of the top of my head)

edit:
Oh, the new iPods charge exclusively off of USB... so yeah, you could buy these and make them your little iPod charging oasis... I'm sure you couldn't buy 8 iPod chargers for the price of this woot...

godsend wrote:Great for my laptops, never have enough ports on a laptop... Im in for 2, I guess that actually means 4

:-)

You mean 8

lordielordie wrote:

no really, it says in the description that it an work on bus power too...

its also more useful for external hard drives tho.

I don't even know what a hub is for. How bout a wrist watch?

My order has been processing for about 5 minutes now. I'm concerned.

Dhornet7 wrote:

You mean 8

No he means 4

2 orders of 2 each = 4 hubs... total of 16 ports

dannnnnn wrote:

The AC adapter is not for your hub. The hub can only take so much energy through the computer, so you have an OPTION of connecting your USB item to not only the hub, but also connecting it directly to AC.

AKA- it doesn't promise being able to power high-energy items, but it gives you a back-up plan.

Not sure if you meant what I think you did, but those AC adapters DO plug directly into the hub itself.

yellowcanary73 wrote:They ripped me off on the Kingston mouse was told it would arrive today but Fedex says they never received the package WHAT A SCAM.. MY LAST BUY FROM THIS PLACE...

Are you kidding me? I trust woot more than any online store. Email them if you never got yours

Well i tried to order ...hope it got through. the final step in the process the reciept never showed. tried refreshing manually ...no go. and the item isnt being tracked in my account. oh well...any help from woot staff would be appreciated.

elpepe wrote:

No he means 4

2 orders of 2 each = 4 hubs... total of 16 ports

Ohhhhh, color me red! or woot!...I think that is a color

Arachnight wrote:Well i tried to order ...hope it got through. the final step in the process the reciept never showed. tried refreshing manually ...no go. and the item isnt being tracked in my account. oh well...any help from woot staff would be appreciated.

Same is happening to me. I want to go to bed - got my Woot, Yankees won ... all is good, but I want to see it in my account history first.

You can never have enough USB ports.

elpepe wrote:

Is that even possible?
3+8 = 11 3 x 4 not 11
So how many ports do you have

It's quite simple. If you have ever used a USB hub - you would know right away that it USES a USB port. It doesn't give you four ports for free. No matter how many USB ports he has, or how many connectors he has - he will ALWAYS quadruple his number of available USB ports.

If he has 1 USB port - it is used by 1 adapter. This gives him 4 USB ports. (4x increase)
If he has 2 USB ports and uses 2 adapters - this gives him 8 USB ports (4x increase)

Of course, if he has 1 USB port and uses 2 adapters - this gives him 7 USB ports and is a 7x increase.

If he had 1 USB port - and he bought 3 of the woots, then he would get 3 ports from each of them except for the last one. 3 x 5 + 4 = 19... for a 19x increase in number of available ports.

I assume that when connected to a PC with an older 1.0 version, the speed is not "upgraded" to 2.0? Correct?

Anyone ever charged their iPod with a powered hub *without* a PC?

Should work in theory since the power can be supplied by either the PC's USB port or the hub's AC adapter. If so, this would be a cheap alternative to getting a wall plug to USB adapter charger for the 'pod, and 8 at a time.

ryebrye wrote: (Blackberrys charge through USB... I can't think of anything else off of the top of my head)

ipod?

Great woot. Thanks. Finally something worth staying up for.

Eric

I jumped in on this woot! Just to letyou know, I was at wal-mart this week and they had a 4 port 2.0 USB for $10.00. the end was 4 USB ports the size of a golf ball.

Not stackable like this woot! , but a nice deal!


The wal-mart hub is unpowered! THe Woot! Hub is!

Got my receipt, going to bed. Night all!

Now I don't have to unplug stuff to use other stuff (already have a x4 hub) ... I love wires.

wbksk1 wrote:what do these things do anyway? can i charge my phone with this?

Please, PLEASE tell me you're joking.

Great woot! My sec woot since the lame golden water filter heads. I ordered 2 (4 hubs), for me, my sister, my geek fd and gf!
Power adaptor is a good thing. If the device needs lots of power, power adaptor would help. If not you can just unplug it.

minorthreat6789 wrote:is it required you plug this thing in to a power outlet to use it?

People really don't read, huh?

I just picked up 2 of these guys...never hurts to have extra ports (especially when your powerbook only has 2 ports). I always had to unplug things to use the USB drive, etc. Not anymore, muhahahaha!

this is for older computer that don't have enough USB posts and any on the front which and take so long to order these that they will be sold out! ugh!!!! :-)


Wu ha ha... I got through!! 2 official woot buys! but both kensington? Weird? especially since Ken is my first name! :-)

BeeAnnie wrote:

Please, PLEASE tell me you're joking.

He isn't joking, I charge my motorola L7 with usb port

Arachnight wrote:Well i tried to order ...hope it got through. the final step in the process the reciept never showed. tried refreshing manually ...no go. and the item isnt being tracked in my account. oh well...any help from woot staff would be appreciated.

Check your email. You should see the order confirmed. I never seem to get a confirmation through the normal buy channel but it always shows up in my email.

Anyone know how long the USB cord is??

spin54 wrote:Amazing how everyone is different. Some people hate this...

I for one couldn't be more thrilled. I was just complaining today that I have no 2.0 hubs. I need these bad. I got 2 and my mom got 1.

Perfect. Thanks.

I can't get excited over these sorts of things. If you need it, buy it. If not, pass. These items are so cheap that there isn't much discount either way, and there isn't much value in having them sitting around if you don't need 'em.

rgrele wrote:I assume that when connected to a PC with an older 1.0 version, the speed is not "upgraded" to 2.0? Correct?

No, it wont. It will just run at USB 1.0 speeds... if you have a free PCI card, you can really cheaply get a USB 2.0 card that will give you 4 USB 2.0 speed ports, and then you can use this hub with that.

Buy.com has a PCI USB port hub card for $8 right now on one of their "deal of the days" - (which, with the exception of the one at the top of the page, last much longer than a day...) - like just about every other PCI USB 2.0 card - it's compatible with Mac or PCs...

Anyone using a tower with USB 1.0 or USB 1.1 should upgrade, then buy these hubs, then be a master of their own USB universe.

Yet another masterpiece Matthew.

This podcast belongs on your greatest hits CD.

The cord looks pretty short in the photo...

So to ask for the fourth time, please, does anyone know the length of the cord? That's the only thing holding me back from getting this

Anyone else having trouble ordering? Everytime I try, it sits at the processing screen and never changes. I had my friend try as well and the same thing happened for him :(