USB hubs enable you to attach multiple devices, such as printers, hard drives and card readers, to a single computer. However, the USB hub only makes the devices available to one computer at a time.

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Since the adoption of the 2.0 specification, there has been renewed interest in using USB as a means for linking portable devices together. With that in mind, designers must develop high-speed USB 2.0 ...

Even if your laptop is lacking ports, these accessories will keep all your gear connected Written By Written by Staff senior editor, Buy Side Nick Guy is a staff senior editor for Buy Side. He's been ...

The purposes of a USB hub are to both turn a single USB port on your PC into several, as well as help to organize all of your USB-connected devices around a convenient, singular point. When a USB hub ...

It's a mess, but it all works perfectly. Some of these, like the Ethernet adapter, are surprising. Others are obvious — the name of the Lightning to USB Camera Adapter kind of gives things away. Like ...

USB-C hubs are more or less a necessary evil these days. Many popular laptops have cut back the number of ports they offer, yet we still need to plug in a growing army of accessories. Between dongles ...

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When working with USB 3.1, designers are challenged to provide the 10 Gbps USB 3.1 speeds that customers expect while supporting backward compatibility with USB 3.0 devices in a hub topology. Using ...

As laptops get smaller and thinner, their port selection gets more and more paltry — this can get quite frustrating for anyone working from home and wrestling toward the best setup. Many ultraportable ...