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18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Really two 4-port hubs cascaded together Jan 17, 2006
By Josh Lehan
"Krellan"
Caution: This "7-port" hub is really two 4-port hubs cascaded together.
Device Manager, in Windows, reveals this product to consist of one 4-port hub that is internally attached to one of the ports of another 4-port hub. This leaves 7 free ports total. Iogear advertises this as one 7-port hub, which is slightly misleading, so beware of this. Running connections through multiple hubs, in some situations, might slightly degrade performance, just so you know.
As others have said, the flimsy rubber vertical stand is junk, don't use it. Makes a fine cat toy, though. I have no desire to stand it vertically, so the failure of this is not a problem for me.
The good news is that this hub seems to be designed with some nice aesthetics in mind. The power supply connection fit in snugly, and doesn't want to wiggle out like on other hubs I've tried in the past (hello, Belkin). The 2 front ports are slightly recessed, diagonally, so they look nice on the table. The 5 ports on the back are far enough apart that you can unplug one thing without chafing against the connector of something else and having to unplug that too, which is good. The front panel lights on the hub serve their purpose, to let you know something's connected, without being overly bright or garish.
It would make my day if Iogear would truly make a 7-port hub, instead of just internally lashing together two 4-port hubs. Making the hub a little heavier, to avoid sliding around on the desk when many weighty cables are attached, would also be a plus!
22 of 25 found the following review helpful:
Nice but Flawed Mar 28, 2005
By Arnim Zola
The style of this hub nicely compliments Mac computers and others. What is disappointing is the dark grey base. The base is not integrated with hub at all. The base, made of a rubber material, is very light. This means the 7 USB cables and accessories you have are all tugging on it in various directions. This makes the hub unstable and prone to flopping over.
25 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 Bad design May 08, 2005
By a_designer
The base doesn't work. Who is Iogear trying to kid? I find it ridiculous that they sell a base that has no functional use once the cables are connected to the unit since the cables weigh more than the base itself. It is clear that the base is designed not for a functional use, but to sell the product packaging.
It is not a wonder no one ever sees a demo image of the base in use with the cables connected.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Not bad for the price Jan 30, 2006
By Ancient DIY'er
"Gregg"
First of all I read the reviews before buying, so I didn't have high hopes of it standing on end, it fits my desktop scheme better on its side anyway. Iogear could have included some stick on feet for the side, but that may give creedance to the poor design of the phony rubber stand..that could have worked if they had just made it a little bigger and heavier. I wanted a 7 port hub that had at two front ports to plug in a camera or jump drive, this and the Belkin seem to be the only ones available. I probably would have bought the Belkin if the price had been the same.
The good: It works well and does what I want it to do. I don't notice any lack of performance with my Lexar lightning jump drive or my Canon i9900 printer although I don't print and transfer large files at the same time.
Bottom line: Good device for the money!
9 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Looks good, but doesn't work very well Apr 22, 2006
By Eric Stadtherr
I bought this hub to go with my Mac Mini. It looks good, and I like the two front-facing ports (great for iPods and cameras). However, I've had nothing but problems with the devices I've used with the hub.
When trying to upload pictures from my camera, it will work great the first time. If I "eject" the camera, disconnect it, and then connect it again later, iPhoto hangs up trying to access the camera. If I connect the camera to a different port, everything works fine. The only thing that regains access to that port is rebooting the computer and the hub.
This same behavior manifests itself with iPods (a Shuffle and a Nano) and iTunes. iTunes usually just hangs up trying to access the iPod, forcing a hard reboot. Fortunately I haven't had to do an iPod software update through this hub - who knows what would happen!
When printing to my Canon S800 printer through this hub, the print queue will randomly stop itself for no apparent reason. Sometimes restarting the print job works, other times it simply spits out random parts of pages and stops again. Switching the printer to a different hub fixed the issue and now everything is working perfectly.
The only device I haven't had problems with using this hub is an external USB2.0+FireWire hard drive. It's much slower with the USB2.0 connection than with the FireWire connection, though, so I usually just plug it in with FireWire.
Anyone want to buy a used USB 2.0 hub? ;)
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