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Works as advertised - Everything was supplied and installed on Windows Vista 64 Bit Machine with no problems.
Never again, and I bought two of these. I just told them it was saying vulgar things to me and hung up. ;-(Bill in Las Vegas Plugged it in, right away I started getting shocked, next came the blue screen at shut down warning about USB Device, Called DLink, couldn't understand them, they couldn't understand me (don't you love OUT-SOURCING), they didn't even know what a hub was, kept asking me which windows I was using. Finally after them asking WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHOCKED.
My solution was to wire my USB 1.1 hub directly to my PC and have it only drive my USB 1.1 devices.As a side note, disconnecting the USB 1.1 device while the PC was on did not improve the speed. My USB 1.1 printer also causes the slowdown. In any case, ALL the USB devices slow down significantly when the USB 1.1 scanner was connected - It didn't matter whether or not I was using the scanner.
I've had up to 6 USB 2.0 devices connected to it without any problems. For about one out of every 6 scans, the scanner will lock up and I have to reboot the PC to restart it. Pro: With the rebate, this is an excellent price for a USB 2.0 hub.
If I connect the USB 1.1 scanner through a USB 1.1 hub, then it locks up about once every 25 scans. The USB 1.1 device had to be disconnected before the PC is powered on to get maximum speed. I've had it for almost a year.Con: Does not work well with USB 1.1 devices.
I connected a USB 1.1 scanner to the hub.
I don't think that it is damaging to the hard drive because nothing is being read from it or written to it but I just don't like the sound of the heads parking so quickly. I have a few different hubs and this is the only one that does that. I still think it is worth buying. I only have one complaint about this hub and that is that when I shut down or restart my computer the hub will cut power to all ports even though it is a wall powered hub. When this happens, my hard drive that is connected to it abruptly shut off.
Because of free shipping, this hub was cheaper than one at another source with rebates. I have had no connection problems at all. This also allowed me to have my wireless keyboard/mouse usb connection closer to my work surface. I needed additional USB ports and researched USB hubs. My experiences with Amazon and Amazon sellers has been excellent and influenced this purchase. Most cheaper ones had issues that I didn't want to have to hassle with. This one got good reviews at a reasonable price. I connected this as the main hub for direct use items like printers and external hard drives, and use my previous hub as the secondary for gps, bluetooth, flash drives, etc.
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