Customer Reviews

Cables To Go 28270 USB 2.0 Mobile Office Retractable Cable Kit

5 star:		(16)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

You get tons of cables and accessories in this kit. It is housed in a nice zippered carrying case that opens like a book. Each accessory is fitted its own niche, customized hole in sturdy black foam. Looks impressive except the foam is too hard and too tight fitting that removing any of the accessory proved to be too challenging. You will need to be careful or you might accidentally break some of the more delicate items such as the earphones and the mouse.

The quality of these kit are on the flimsy side. The mouse is too small even for a laptop. Its button wheel functions and works as good as my regular mouse, but the clicks are unpleasantly loud. The earphones has a microphone but the wires are just too thin. Actually, the smallest gauge I have seen used on a pair of earphones by far. Some of the cables has a retractable cord spool, I like those as it minimize the clutter. Considering the number of accessories that you get with this kit, for an average consumer, it is more likely that you will only use less than half of this kit.

Kit includes:

- 3ft stereo retractable earphone and microphone
- 3.5ft retractable USB A/Male to USB A/Female cable
- 4ft retractable USB A/Male to USB A/Male cable
- 3ft retractable FireWire 1394a 6-Pin/Male to 6-Pin/Male cable
- 3ft RJ11 retractable cable
- USB A/Male to USB A/Male connector
- USB A/Male to USB B/Male connector
- USB A/Male to USB 4-Pin Mini B/Male connector
- USB A/Male to USB 5-Pin Mini B/Male connector
- FireWire 6-Pin/Female to 4-Pin/Male connector
- 2x RJ45 to USB A/Female connectors
- 2x RJ11 to USB A/Female connectors
- RJ45 crossover connector
- 4-port USB hub
- Mini retractable USB optical mouse

I am quite happy with this little gem. All items seem of good quality and are securely nested in specific places that are cut to the size and shape of each item. Very professional appearance. The quality seems very good and the zippered case is an added plus.

Many of the cables have retractable cable holders eliminating excessive lengths of cords hanging off the table when using my notebook in a non desk environment like a coffe shop or hotel room. A friend in IT at work saw mine and had to know where I got it from. Amazon followed through with great shipping on time and as promised.

True story: I was a passenger in a car on a lengthy expressway trip zipping along at . . . well, it wasn't 55. I was trying to work on a deadline project using my laptop and absolutely, positively needed to get online to fetch some information from the web. No problem thought I: I'll use my cell phone as a modem. I reached into my travel bag for my cell phone's USB cable and - yep, I had left it at home. (Bluetooth wasn't working.)

For a moment I sort of panicked, thinking we would have to take time to connect at a truck stop. Then I remembered this handy little kit was tucked away in my bag.

A few seconds later, I had put the needed cable together and was online.

There are many kits like this on the market. I suspect that there are only one, two or a very few companies that make the fittings and they assemble the kits to the specificationas of their customers like Cables To Go, Belkin and others.

This Cables To Go kit is more fully featured than any other I've seen so far. It not only has every relatively common USB connector, it also has 6-pin and 4-pin Firewire connectors, an RJ-11 (telephone jack) cable, another for RJ-45 (CAT5 network), a mouse suitable for short-term use, a 4-port USB hub and a surpisingly useful RJ-45 crossover cable (which can come in very handy when you need to move massive amounts of data from one computer to another).

Overall, this is a great value. It is not something that you're likely to use every day, but, let's say, when you're zipping down the highway and absolutely, positively need to hook up with your cell phone to get online and realize you forgot your specialty cable, you'll appreciate having this kit on hand.

Jerry

I picked this up and was able to clear out a lot of clutter from my backpack. I travel often to customer sites and being able to mix and match connectors is very convenient. Being able to make console and crossover cables can be a life saver.

I'll give it 5 stars despite the mouse. Don't get me wrong, it works great. It's an optical wheel mouse and while small works great. My only objection is that the mouse buttons make too loud of a noise when you click them. Almost like a kids toy.

I have ended up using this product a lot, much more than I thought I would. It has a cable for pretty much everything. I can even have a spare printer cable just in case. This kit also comes with a mouse -- when my main mouse broke, I had this little guy and was able to use my computer until I got a new one. The USB hub is nice, but the ports do seem a little slower since it is self-powered.

It is just a little cheaply made. When I was snapping a cable back into place, the whole contraption that makes it retract broke. It took about 15 minutes to fix and it still doesn't retract as well as before.

Even though it may not be the best made product out there, it does work and it works nicely. You'll get much more use out of this than you think.

This little thing has saved us a small fortune in both time and money. Originally tried it because a keyboard adaptor was going to cost over $50...well, this didn't work for that situation BUT, it has worked for several other similar situations. Perfect for traveling or to keep on hand for those odd replacements you need now and then. Will buy a 2nd one once it goes back on sale - great set, nice packaging and you will use more often than you might think!

I keep a drawer-ful of various computer cables for all kinds of projects. Having this cable kit eliminates a good portion of the cables I'd need on my table or near a work area. The case is very small and lightweight so it can be easily stored or carried anywhere at a moment's notice. I'd highly recommend this kit to technical support personnel who needs to travel to job locations on the go. Or if you have travel with a laptop and don't like carrying a whole slew of cables in the laptop bag.

This is one of those products that I wish I could have bought much sooner. it has a wide variety of different cable needs for my laptop and the best part is that it is all neatly arranged in one place for me to refer to. As a heavy notebook and travel computing user, I was constantly plagued with clutter in my computer bag, and having great difficulty finding anything among the dozens of pockets. With this kit, all of my cabling needs are in one place, that I can quickly get too, and no more fumbling.

I bought this as a gold-box deal for the mini-mouse. The mouse itself is a good compact little travel mouse. The rest of the package is kind of junk. Cables work, but there are a lot of odd adapters and a lack of some obvious ones. You can probably make it work by chaining some of the adapters but it just feels poorly thought out.

Pros-This package contains almost every adapter you need. I am surprised that I even got a mini optical mouse with this low low price!!

Cons- I can not find a USB 2.0A TO MINI B 4-PIN adapter...