Anyone have USB/FW hub suggestions?

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imantaimanta
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
I am looking for a good quality USB/FW hub. I have been looking at combo devices that do both, but these are few and I am wondering what other people have done. They need to be self powering to charge things like the Shuffle, etc.



For USB I have:

Epson Printer

PSP

Keyboard/Mouse

MIDI

Shuffle



For FW I have:

Ext HD

iPod

SanDisk CF Card Reader

iSight



I think that is pretty much it, flexibility is good though :-)



Thanks!

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    xoolxool Posts: 2,460member
    A while ago I was also looking in to combo firewire/USB 2.0 hubs and I found that most of them were flakey. Specifically I read that the power supplies were problematic and that the units were easy to fry, and if you were unlucky they'd take out ports on your mother board too!



    I'm pretty sure the comments on Amazon are still there.



    In the end I just purchased a FireWire 800-400 adapter, so I could plug my iSight in to my FireWire 800 port. I just wanted all the front-side ports open on my G5.
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    bmwintoxicationbmwintoxication Posts: 106member
    I want a wireless USB hub!! so the only thing I have to plug in is the power source. keyboard, mouse, printer...and whatever all goes on the WUSB ... laptop heaven!!
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    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BMWintoxication

    I want a wireless USB hub!! so the only thing I have to plug in is the power source. keyboard, mouse, printer...and whatever all goes on the WUSB ... laptop heaven!!



    That's what Bluetooth was supposed to be. Would be cool if someone was able to make some sort of Bluetooth KVM, where the Bluetooth 'connection' to the KVM was for both the keyboard and the mouse. (like the keyboard and mouse connected to the KVM through Bluetooth and the KVM connected to the computer through Bluetooth) Or just Bluetooth 'hubs' in general like that. So that all the devices connected wirelessly to the 'hub' and the 'hub' connected to the computer. It would be more like a wireless 'grouping' of devices.



    In that way it could act as a KVM (without the monitor that is) for the 'grouping', because you could tell one computer to drop it and another to associate with it. Though a 'KVM' would be easier in that you could just hit a button on the KVM to do this.
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