FYI, hub partially fails.
I have a Sabrett hub. Is Sabrett a good brand???
It has 4 outputs, each controlled with a swith, though I rarely turn any
of them on or off.
It's failed once, maybe three times. My external usb HDD which used to
work fine now has to be plugged directly into the laptop's port.
I somehow thought hubs were so simple, they would not fail.
One might think the switches are the problem but the light for each
problem port goes on and off when I use the switch. Maybe they are
multi-pole switches and only the light pole is working? do you think
the switches are the problem and I'd be safer with one that has no
switches?
I've tried two of the four hub ports and neither work, but one of the
others still does.
Also, I may have posted here before about my ethernet adapter failing,
but now I think it was the hub it was plugged into. That time I checked everything but didn't think to check the hub. Shame on me. Later, the
same port gave me trouble for something else, but I'm sill using #1 port
for the new internet adapater and it's worked fine.
A separate FYI: Amazon not perfect: I returned the adapter to Amazon,
which I regret now, although it was only a $10 item, and probably used
little or no scarce resources in its construcion. I was within the
year's warranty, so I googled what to do, found an amazon page with an
800 number, called and said it had failed, and they gave 3 return
options, one of which was UPS and UPS would do the wrapping. When I got
my credit, it was too low. Called a 20% restocking charge. There should
not be a restocking charge on a warranty claim, right? When I called,
she said I hadn't returned it within the 30 days. I repeated that it
was a warranty claim. She had to leave and ask someone and came back
and said I'd get the rest back. When I got it, it said was a Goodwill refund, not a warranty refund. Even though on both phone calls I said
it had failed, and they had not received it yet and had no way to know
it had not. This was only 2 dollars but you may have the same problem
on a much more expensive item.
On Sat, 9/28/2024 2:27 PM, micky wrote:
FYI, hub partially fails.
I have a Sabrett hub. Is Sabrett a good brand???
It has 4 outputs, each controlled with a swith, though I rarely turn any
of them on or off.
It's failed once, maybe three times. My external usb HDD which used to
work fine now has to be plugged directly into the laptop's port.
I somehow thought hubs were so simple, they would not fail.
One might think the switches are the problem but the light for each
problem port goes on and off when I use the switch. Maybe they are
multi-pole switches and only the light pole is working? do you think
the switches are the problem and I'd be safer with one that has no
switches?
I've tried two of the four hub ports and neither work, but one of the
others still does.
Also, I may have posted here before about my ethernet adapter failing,
but now I think it was the hub it was plugged into. That time I checked
everything but didn't think to check the hub. Shame on me. Later, the
same port gave me trouble for something else, but I'm sill using #1 port
for the new internet adapater and it's worked fine.
A separate FYI: Amazon not perfect: I returned the adapter to Amazon,
which I regret now, although it was only a $10 item, and probably used
little or no scarce resources in its construcion. I was within the
year's warranty, so I googled what to do, found an amazon page with an
800 number, called and said it had failed, and they gave 3 return
options, one of which was UPS and UPS would do the wrapping. When I got
my credit, it was too low. Called a 20% restocking charge. There should
not be a restocking charge on a warranty claim, right? When I called,
she said I hadn't returned it within the 30 days. I repeated that it
was a warranty claim. She had to leave and ask someone and came back
and said I'd get the rest back. When I got it, it said was a Goodwill
refund, not a warranty refund. Even though on both phone calls I said
it had failed, and they had not received it yet and had no way to know
it had not. This was only 2 dollars but you may have the same problem
on a much more expensive item.
It was probably a power issue (something to do with the +5V).
The hub wasn't really "failed" in the classical sense of
an issue with D+ and D- on the port. The USB.org should be
ashamed of themselves, for letting shit like this happen.
Why should the fucking customer do the engineering ???
Hubs may not have enough power to run hard drives. You should
know that. You've been here long enough to know about
hydra cables, and tense discussions about milliamps and such.
Hubs come in bus-powered hubs (NOT for disk drives) and wall adapter
powered hubs. A USB3 powered hub, might run a 2.5" hard drive one.
the amperes on the wall adapter, hints at capability. You need
at least a 1.1 amp adapter for the powered hub. Many powered hubs
don't even have a large enough adapter for all the ports to have
hard drives at the same time. (3 amp adapter, 6 amps worth of load.)
So for heavy-loading items, they do not want you using too many
of those on your powered hub.
Self powered enclosures exist, which have their own wall adapters,
These draw no significant power from any kind of hub, and that
is my preference electrically. I have a couple self powered ones
for example.
And the name of the company is Sabrent. They're usually not too bad.
Some of the companies that make add-on stuff, they've more or less
gone out of business (COVID shock). My computer store has very
poor stock now. Can't find good items when I need them. For example,
no quality cooling fans, just dreck. I actually had to go up the
street to Best Buy, and buy a computer power supply (hangs head...).
We're back to the bad old days again. Looking under rocks for a meal.
Paul
Good point. I used to know that, and I used to, I think, plug it into
the laptop. I took the laptop on vacation and when we got back, I'd forgotten.
I liked the use of the hub switch to turn the drive on and off. I like
that better than plugging and unplugging. Plus it worked fine at least
once.
Do you think lack of hub power was the reason the internet adapter
didn't work?
Maybe I was recharging a phone or earbuds at the same time, and the
speakers are plugged into the same hub. I have a powered hub somewhere,
but I have enough things plugged in, and it didn't have switches, and
when I travel I certainly don't want to bring it.
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