Customer Reviews

Connectland CL-U2MNHUB-4B 4 Ports USB V2.0 Mini Hub (Black)

5 star:		(99)
4 star:		(41)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(14)
1 star:		(18)

 

 

This product looks very cool. It has a lot of LED lights which to me is very colorful and looks cool. And it is not very bright which is a plus because sometimes bright LED lights on any electronics can get very annoying. Also, the cord is short which means this is more preferable for laptop use because as a user I don't want long cords attached to my laptop. It makes it very accessible and hassle free. There are only 4 USB slots on it which is all right to me. I have an external hard drive attached to it, a bluetooth USB, a PS3 controller, and my phone all attached to it. This is, by the way, attached to my laptop. So, yea it works perfectly fine and the build is great too. It looks well made and the picture doesn't do justice because it really looks professionally well made. Slick black color and not very bright LED lights (which is again a plus).

I really recommend this product to anyone. Thank you for reading this.

Given the other reviews I'm willing to believe I simply got a hub from a bad batch, but this hub is unusable for me. The USB connector is poorly soldered to the cable ("new" the insulation was already pulling away from the usb connector), and the connections on the hub side are *very* loose. Several times I've had cables simply fall out, which I don't have to tell you is somewhat of an issue. Moving this hub while devices are connected is simply out of the question. A little bit of duct tape fixes all when I use the hub on one of my desktop computers, but that's a bit absurd on the road. I've since replaced this hub with the Belkin Ultra Mini Hub F5U407 which is of substantially higher build quality; I've had no issues with the cable or hub connections. I will say I do like the design of this hub; it's small and has all the ports in a line, which I prefer. But, given the inconsistency in making a solid connection this hub is simply destined for the unused electronics box.

I have a Popcorn Hour A110 and it has one USB port in the back. The PCH supports an internal HD and whatever you connect to the USB port. So in order to expand the number of HDs I can connect to the PCH I needed a hub! This one is inexpensive, self-powered, and works like a champ. I have daisy-chained two of these together. True I lose one port since it's used to connect the second hub but now I can connect 7 drives to my PCH. I currently have 4 x 1TB drives hooked up to my PCH and expect to get more in the near future. If I fill up all the ports you can be sure I'll buy another hub to daisy-chain to the current hubs. Great product and I will buy again.

Can you ever have enough USB ports? Of course not. So, looking for something cost effective and worthwhile, I decided to give this a try. It works great! And for less than $10, you can't complain a bit. I don't know why they give you the option to turn off each individual port when you can just unplug it, but no big deal for me. Also, I could not notice a significant drop in data transfer when I plug in my external HDDs to it. Construction does seem a tad cheap, so I'd imagine if you were unplugging and plugging in different cables all day, ever day, it'd probably work some wires loose internally eventually. It serves me great for my use, as most of my USB stuff is a 1 time plug in and I'll never touch them again. But seriously, this thing is dirt cheap, you can't ask for much more!

Cheap. Small. Simple. Works.

The ports are quite snug for the male usb's, so don't try to push the usb in too hard.

Keep in mind, that the power does get split in half/thirds/etc when you insert 2, 3, or more; however I use a bluetooth/wireless keyboard and mouse and put the usb receiver on the Hub with additional things like a usb-powered laptop fan, and an ipod charger, and the receiver has never dropped wireless connection (which to me is the most important). I haven't tested using big, power-hungry usb electronics on the hub, and rightly, I don't plan to. I don't think that'll turn out well.

The hub has one red light to show that it's powered and 4 other blue lights that light up for each port that's in use (I didn't know about this when I got it and was delighted to be able to go "Ooo pretty lights!"). It even has a handy on/off switch for each port so you don't even have to unplug electronics from the hub if you don't want that particular item to hog up the computer's usb power.

It's a nice little USB hub. I just wish the cable was an inch or 2 longer.

It works right out of the package and it does what it's suppose to. The only thing I was a little mislead by was the fact that some people on here mentioned the LED lights were BLUE but mines are green it's not a big deal but I just thought having blue LED lights would go good with my setup. Other then that little super minor thing the product seems good I've only been using for a couple of days so I can't really say how long it will last me but I hope it hangs in there. ***UPDATE*** after about a week of using this product I have noticed that it can't handle too many things plugged into it at once. Right now I'm only using 2 of the ports one to power a USB toy and the other one to power my external hard drive. I tried connecting my printer into the 3rd usb slot and it recognized my printer at first but when I tried printing something it kept saying that my printer was turned off and a message popped up saying USB device not recognized. I then disconnect my printer and plugged it in directly into my laptops USB ports and the printer worked fine. So I'm guessing it can't handle any heavy duty devices on it, so it's only good to power on certain things that don't require that much power. I also tried connecting my wireless USB mouse to it and it seems to lag a lot when connected through this USB hub once I connect it back directly to my laptops USB port it seems to work fine so like I said before this is not designed for really 4 devices on at a time. I think that's why they provided the on and off feature on each USB port so you can turn off a device that is not in use therefore distributing more power to a device that you are using. Overall its a decent product and I will have to work with it I will definitely will not be using for anything that requires more power like connecting my USB microphone into it or anything that might cause a lag to the connection. I just like the overall look of the product and the short connection make it a convenient thing to have but I wouldn't recommend it for someone who wants to connect a lot of things at once because it will not handle it.

2 of the 3 Connectland hubs that I bought for my company shorted within the first use... straight out of the box! I would not recommend these to anyone.

My older tower only had one USB port on the front. This hub gives me access to more ports without crawling under my desk. The size is compact and the cord is a nice length.

I ordered this after several unsuccessful inexpensive 4-port hub purchases. Most of the others did not function. I thought I'd give this a try. I liked the slightly long cable that enables it to be positioned away from the usb port but not so long that I'd need to use some sort of harness to keep it short. Well, this is perfect! A possible bonus is that each port can be turned on/off and I like the separate led lights (not too bright). Very pleased with this product and the price was reasonable. Ten months later this is still functioning fine. I certainly recommend this!