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Review on πŸ’ͺ Enhanced Plugable USB 2.0 7-Port High Speed Hub - Boosted with 15W Power Adapter by Matt Hamilton

Revainrating 5 out of 5

If you need to connect more joysticks or controllers, this USB hub is for you!

Works great with video game controllers such as joysticks/joysticks/HOTAS. I play a lot of flight sims and space games and my Simpit sits across the room from my PC on a long USB extender to the built in USB hub on my Saitek flight yoke but I lost the power supply so it was just one USB hub with no power supply and if I plug too many controllers into it I would run into some problems as some of them would lose signal. So I got this powered USB hub and hooked up a feedback joystick (Logitech G940) which also has its own power supply, a Thrustmaster TWCS throttle, Saitek Pro Flight Rudder pedals and a couple of zero-latency USB encoders (more joysticks ) and everything works fine. If you're using an unpowered USB hub, all of those joysticks need to get the same power from the same USB port that the hub is plugged into, and this will make the input signal weak or the controllers will keep disconnecting and reconnecting. Not with this active USB hub! I wish there were more USB ports on the hub but I will just buy more of these hubs and you can connect them together by snapping them together. Finally, it can be difficult to open the top cover to get to the last two USB ports, but it won't break, so don't worry.

Pros
  • Happy so far
Cons
  • Embarrassed