Kensington DomeHub 7-port USB 2.0 Hub with FlyLight
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Customer Review: Shapely Hub
Summary: 5 Stars
Even though it says "Weighted" for this hub, it could use a little more. Since I placed it at the edge of my desk with the usb chords leading over the side, it wanted to tip a little. So I stuck it to my desk with two sided tape. It's rock solid now & there is no clutter of chords across the desktop.
I like the dome shape & the little green lights on the front showing which terminal is in use. I took it out of the box, plugged it in & it's working great.
The light that comes with it gives off a nice useable glow to light up my keyboard.
The port on the top of the dome is convenient for devices that I only leave plugged in temporarily, like a camera.
Customer Review: DOA out of the package
Summary: 1 Stars
Very disappointed to find it dead on arrival right out of the package. No power led, computer did not find it, etc. It's totally dead. I also don't understand why the power plug and cord are on the same side as the usb ports. So if I want to plug in usb devices, I have to have the cords wrap around the hub. Or to have the cords go back off my desk away from me, I have to plug in usb devices into the back (away from me) of the hub. Which means I have to turn it around to plug something in and then turn it back around to keep the cords from wrapping around the device. A very poor design.
It's going back and being replaced with a different brand.
Customer Review: great product, worth the couple extra $
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought one of these for my wife's mac. Its been absolutely great! I really like the fact that the hub is weighted, so it doesn't move around all over the place like a cheap plastic 4-port hub would. I have not had any issue with usb plugs coming out of the slots. There are six ports in the back of the unit, and the seventh is on top for items like thumb drives which you want to be able to access quickly. The other six ports are a little harder to get to if you have a cluttered desk, but otherwise are fine.
The included usb flex light is useless, don't factor it in your decision whether or not to purchase this product.
Customer Review: Better than Belkin and cooler looking too!
Summary: 5 Stars
My experience is somewhat opposite of the other critic. I plugged it in and it worked. I keep pluging things into the hub and they always work! I am probably a heavy personal user of personal computers. Like many mac users, I've had to get used to working with Windows based machines. I upgrade to a new computer once a year and have three machines I use frequently. So perhaps the other guy was running the hub on windows. I'm buying one of these for each of my home machines. I have tried Belkin hubs with less consistent performance on my macs. I threw them out because the two I had continued not to function intermittently.Customer Review: Good idea
Summary: 5 Stars
Saw this as a deal of the day. Read the reviews on Amazon and several other sites and decided to give it a try. I bought one for me and my husband. It has freed up all but one port on my computer. I have a zip drive that I still use and the domehub would not recognize it. It's not that old, but too old to use with this hub. But, I have connected the following items to it and they work fine - a scanner, a laser printer, a Maxtor external drive, a flash drive and the mouse, plus the free light that came with the dome hub. It easy to connect and disconnect the items, and the domehub does not take up much room at all.