Logitech Premium 4-Port USB Hub
by Logitech
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Logitech Premium 4-Port USB Hub
Customer Review: Easy to Use but No Power Adapter
Summary: 4 Stars
This product looks very stylish and sleek right out of the box. It is exactly as described and works as such as well. There are lights that turn on to show that there is an active USB device plugged into the port. The lights are in no way intrusive or distracting, but rather it blends into the background of your focus.
One major flaw is that this product does not come with the AC adapter that it needs to supply electricity to devices that only use the USB for its power source. I have tried plugging in several devices with the AC adapter, and the low power consumption devices like an external laptop fan worked, but a portable hard drive would not.
4/5.
Customer Review: not terribly useful as is
Summary: 2 Stars
I agree with the numerous posters about this hub. I works, after a fashion, but seems to need external power
for most any task; which is oh-so-conveniently not supplied but (if you can find it) you can buy an adapter for an extra $10. Premium? You be the judge. By the way, there ARE acouple ways around this: any cellphone charger
with either the 3.5mm(I think) coaxial plug or mini B output will work as will the charger plug from a kindle with
a usb male-male cord added. I think the extra $10 for a $3 wall wart is exorbitant but seems about par for logitech in my experience. Works OK, but be warned if you need it to power anything.
Customer Review: I don't know what's so premium about it...
Summary: 4 Stars
The product works well. I picked it because of the price after rebate. I could have went with any other hubs.
I took one star off because the designers decided that it's OK to assume the USB standard governs the world and pack the ports. To be sure, any device (like the thumbdrive in one of the pictures) that is too wide and block the near-by port is probably non-compliant. But we don't live in a standards-compliant world and so we should design around this.
For those who wants to power the hub: it's just a standard 5V 3.5mm jack. You probably have one of those mini power bricks sitting around in the house.
Customer Review: Works well with macs
Summary: 5 Stars
I have used this with Apple's Airport Extreme router for some time now. Even though it is not a "powered" usb hub, it has worked flawlessly. Currently I have one HP DeskJet 4200 printer and one Iomega external 500gb hard drive hooked up. It is great. Wherever I am I can access my backups and my music stored on the drive. Also, I can print from anywhere throughout the house with no cables.
The only con I can think of is the lack of a power adapter for the wall to make this hub "powered." I was going to buy it off of the logitech site, but it has been out of stock for a while now and probably out of production.
Customer Review: problematic with LaCie external hard drive for Mac
Summary: 2 Stars
My external hard drive (LaCie) has two usb cores, both need to be plugged into the computer for the hard drive to work. The port does not recognize one of the cores. That is when I plug it in, the green light indicating connection does not turn on and the lap top doesn't show the hard drive. I tries many variations (like plugging into different entries in the port itself or turning on and of, doing things gradually) and nothing works. The port works well with ipod and digital camera. So if you are a Mac user and thinking to buy this port in order to connect your external LaCie hard drives, don't do it.