No free speech here! Delete my inoffensive posts and I'll delete woot from my desktop--and immediately stop telling people about it.

great deal and a great product! add this to my list of woot purchases, i'm a sucker for cheap ;)

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

BeeAnnie wrote:

Please, PLEASE tell me you're joking.

Actually, if you have a cable that charges your phone when connected to your laptop USB port, Yes it will charge it. I charge my Treo occasionally with a powered USB hub not connected to a PC. Not all cables will charge though.

check it out on ebay... i seen one sell for $6.. including shipping... brand new

My very first woot, been watching for a while but haven't found what I needed or it was all bought out at midnight (wireless mouse, 250GB HD). And there I was sitting here thinking to myself, dang I wish I had not one but two USB 2.0 hubs one for home and one for work. But wait! I want the option to power them from AC so I can run all sorts of crap off of them that sucks power like my blackberry and my bus powered USB 20gb hd that has never worked off of a hub due to power suckage (suckatude?). And I happened to be up driving to Walmart at 11:45pm to buy a plunger thinking to myself damn why didn't I buy that super woot plunger doodad on April Fools day? (true story) So when I got back I checked woot and there were my amazing USB hubs that I had so desired just hours before.

Thank you woot! You have made my staying up plunging crap out of a toilet worthwhile.

Steve Frawley wrote:

Actually, if you have a cable that charges your phone when connected to your laptop USB port, Yes it will charge it. I charge my Treo occasionally with a powered USB hub not connected to a PC. Not all cables will charge though.

Yes, I know it will. It's all been touched on in the posts including my explanation. Read on, friend.

I hope these come with the exstention. That would be icing on the cake. I use exstensions like crazy. Now I won't have to unplug something everytime I want to use something else. Hurry up and ship these suckers.

i dunno if anyone has answered this question yet, but i have seen lots of people asking it:

the usb cord is about 2 inches long

These are very nice USB 2.0 hubs at a great price. The reviews on Amazon are terrific.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009APBW/

However, a quick look through newegg.com, buy.com, etc will reveal that you can get a 4 port USB 2.0 Hub for free (after rebate).

However, considerng these are Kensington-brand and have no rebates, I think the price can't be beat.

My first woot definitely. Been watching for awhile, but this is the first woot I could use and that's cheap as well. I checked some local retailers and some are selling it for as much as $40 bucks. And I got two on Tuesday. Very nice. Keep on hooking us up with things like this.

jrucker2004 wrote:i dunno if anyone has answered this question yet, but i have seen lots of people asking it:

the usb cord is about 2 inches long

According to amazon reviews, they come with a 2 foot extension cable....so you get the best of both worlds.

Tralornik wrote:

According to amazon reviews, they come with a 2 foot extension cable....so you get the best of both worlds.

WOOT!!!
(ahhh, it works on so many levels)

The Button is Bouncing!

I find it odd that Kensington doesn't list this model hub on their website:
http://us.kensington.com/html/6597.html

Oh well. The spec sheet someone posted from Amazon.com was dated 7/28/2003 (and also marked confidential). So, this model may be a discontinued product?

Regardless, good woot.

My order went through SUPER fast!!

Anyone thing the podcast harkened back to a little Frank Zappa? Pretty funny.

Night Wooters

I finally purchased my first Woot. This is exactly what I needed for me and my co-worker who travel with our laptops. I love hubs and I love woots. Oh and I love reading this message board.

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?

the speed defaults to the lowest standard that any of the items in the line can support. So if you have a USB1.0 or 1.1 device, a USB2.0 hub, and a computer capable of of USB2.0, it will only do USB1 specs (either Low speed, which is 1.5mbits/s or full speed which is 12mbits/s, depending on conditions and such as well). Say you have a USB2 device, USB2 hub, and USB1 computer, same as before it will drop to the fastest that all of the devices can support, being the USB1 low or fullspeed specs.

One of the misleading things about USB2.0, is most people think that USB2.0 means the device does Hi Speed rates (480mbit/s), where as in reality thats not fully true. It just means that if it follows the USB2.0 specs, it might peak at 480mbit/s. There are a quite a few USB2.0 devices out there (especially mice and such), that will only do the low speed rate. USB2.0 is just a spec for how things can be done, not how it is done, or how fast it can be. About the only things anymore that really effectively use USB2.0 Hi Speed specs is DV Cameras (but not most digital cameras, just the digital video cameras), hard drives, some networking components, and occaisionally scanners and such. Unless you're using a external hard drive, or video editing, USB1.1 or 1.0 probably will be fine.

My first Woot.

I needed a hub that has an AC adapter, and this was cheaper than buying the AC adapter for my current hub. Good deal for me.

Ive been watching this site for a couple months as a member waiting for my first woot. I was wishing for a bag of crap to break the ice...but this will do.

This beats buying an Apple IPod charger for $29...and this thing can charge 4 of them. Now all i need is a use for 8 IPods....

I wooted, and I feel alot better now, I've been holding back for a month !!

sweet, first buy. looks like I got one of the last ones too.

Good woot tonight. My poor laptop only has two USB ports on it, and since one is taken up 24/7 by a USB bluetooth adapter (for communicating with my portable keybaord + mouse + phone + GPS), that only leaves me with 1 usable USB port. So that means that I can have only ONE device plugged in. This is normally fine, but what if, say, I want to burn a DVD from the data that's on my USB external hard drive? Then that means having to yank out the bluetooth adapter and having to deal with the built in keyboard (that's not so bad) and the stupid touch pad (which SUCKS). Now with one of these mini hubs packed in my bag, I can go wild with the USB peripherals, and with the AC adapter, there will be enough bus power to power both my USB hard drive and DVD burner.

And oh, it's a two-for Tuesday, so that means I get TWO for the price of one! Hey, I can take it to work with men, now I don't have to grope around behind the big noisy stinky grubby tower case whenever I want to plug in my USB thumb drive (yea, I know the USB cable that comes with these mini hubs doesn't look all that long, but it just so happens that I have a USB extension cable buried around here somewhere...)

Great woot guys. Keep 'em coming.

I have one of these and you dont need to plug it into the wall. but if you dont you cant hook up four things with out a message coming up saying that there isnt enough power to run all the the devices. So plugging it in would be good for that purpose.

IceNHL wrote:This beats buying an Apple IPod charger for $29...and this thing can charge 4 of them. Now all i need is a use for 8 IPods....

miniature portable RAID array?
world's smallest 480 GB digital DJ setup?
rapidly catch up with battlestar galactica/lost/desperate housewives/<insert name of other series available on iTMS> by watching 8 episodes per sitting simultaneously?

Gildo05 wrote:I have one of these and you dont need to plug it into the wall. but if you dont you cant hook up four things with out a message coming up saying that there isnt enough power to run all the the devices. So plugging it in would be good for that purpose.

That actually depends on the devices you're hooking up, and how much bus power they draw. Typically for "low power" devices such as keyboards and mice, you can typically plug more than one device of this type into an unpowered hub, and the system will still work. A few weeks ago, on an incredibly boring Friday afternoon, when senior management was off schmoozing or whatever it is they do, several coworkers and I plugged four USB mice into a hub attached to one of our servers, and had "Mouse Wars (TM)" (a long time ago on a desktop far, far away...) Yeah, we were pretty bored. But hey, it worked.

Now, with devices that drain more power, such as USB hard drives and CD/DVD drives, you can, if you're extremely lucky, plug ONE such device into an unpowered hub. It may or may not work. But definitely plugging in more than one of this type of device will result in the dreaded "not enough bus power" message and your devices not working.

as for me I bought just 1 order and it went through fast, that was at the beginning and I am glad I bought then since it is now sold out in about 2 hrs time...good woot....now to convince my wife that we just need a laptop, she says we don't but I think we do...any suggestions on how to convince???...

quezacotl wrote:noooooooooo, i'm too late. I need them!!! <sigh>, guess next time i have to chk woot EARLIER... <sniff>

I'll sell you one.

It's imposible to get in on any worth while deal here.

dpicray wrote:No free speech here! Delete my inoffensive posts and I'll delete woot from my desktop--and immediately stop telling people about it.

Hey, go ahead and delete woot from your desktop. That leaves more for the rest of us! =)

yommo wrote:It's imposible to get in on any worth while deal here.

No, just sign up for Woot Txt Messages! There are some free services out there I found out that basically read the header line of they webpage and coninually refreshes the web page until woot updates it and then it will send out e-mails to everyone who wants them. If you sign up for this you can put the e-mail address for your phone ie: 5555555555@vtext.com or 55555555555@my.cingular.com or something like that. That way when a super good deal comes on and your at the movies, you can be sure to make it home and order that plunger before it sells out!

videogrinch wrote:

I'll sell you one.

... for how much?

Guess I missed out on this one. Oh well on to the next woot.

I know it can be a crap shoot, but why don't you try to have the quantity that would get you to the 8:00 am surge. You would have to work longer per night and the dollar per minute #'s wouldn't be as impressive but, wouldn't the total dollars offset that? I don't know, just trying to help us that can't see staying up till
1:00 am to possibly see junk, when have to be up in 4-1/2 - 5 hours. This is one I wish I would have been up for. Looks like a two for one price.

WOOT!

deseretdad wrote:I don't know, just trying to help us that can't see staying up till
1:00 am to possibly see junk, when have to be up in 4-1/2 - 5 hours. This is one I wish I would have been up for. Looks like a two for one price.

WOOT!

hahaha HOHO HAHAHAHA MUAHAHAHA!!!! HA!!! I work the overnight shift and can use the computer to check woot instead of working. AT MIDNIGHT!!!

finally, a positive thing to say about starting work at 10pm....

I have one of these, but I lost track of which of 4 AC adapters (all with plugs that fit) goes with this thing. Can you tell me the Volts/ Amps required?

Thanks!

????? How come they don't list at the bottom what time it sold out anymore and who bought the last one? I always liked seeing that and being amazed at how fast things sold out.
Just a thought.

DSM3000gt wrote:

hahaha HOHO HAHAHAHA MUAHAHAHA!!!! HA!!! I work the overnight shift and can use the computer to check woot instead of working. AT MIDNIGHT!!!

finally, a positive thing to say about starting work at 10pm....

your wal-mart supervisor has been notified

Who are you people?!?!?

I'm new to this deal, but I get to my ofice in the morning, check the Woot, find that I'd like to buy it, just to find that it wassold out after two freaking hours?!!

Meh, the disappointment...