Belkin USB hub
A nice little product from Belkin. Appears to be of solid construction, much better than some of the other flimsy tat out there.
It is also has it own plug type power supply which means will actually drive a few USB hard drives, printers etc as many USB bus powered hubs sometimes don't have enougth grunt to power anything substantial.
It has a mini USB "IN" connector on the rear (lead supplied in box) plus three std USB connections plus the handy fourth std USB on the front which is a nice touch. No LED status lamps as such though which is claimed in some reviews. An anti-slip rubber foot helps to some extent keep it in one place but I would recommend some self-adhesive velcro or wedging it somewhere firm else you maybe chasing it around your desk/floor after a few days.
getting connected.
This little gadget with a power supply is brilliant!! I can now run a printer, wireless mouse usb key, external hard drive with no problems and saving my 3 usb ports on my laptop. Laptop also running cooler since I have not got all my usb drives drawing power from my machine. Brilliant. Thanks again Amazon, would highly recommend this device.
Compatible with WDLXTV.
I bought this to add extra drives to my Western Digital TV Live HD Media Player which has been updated with B-Rad's modified WDLXTV firmware.
I'm running three 500GB 2.5 SATA drives from it and it works without any problems. The WDTV player detects the USB hub as a single drive and shows the individual connected drives as folders.
I checked it worked with a first generation WDTV HD running WDLXTV and again all the drives were detected.
If you want to use this USB hub with a WD TV media player, it's worth pointing out it will only work on those running the modified WDLXTV firmware. The official Western Digital firmware has disabled hub support on the Gen 1, Gen 2 and Live.
Update: 04/04/11
I've now switched to the newer Western Digital TV Live Streaming Media Player and this hub works with the official...
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