The upsides are that the hub is small, the setup was relatively painless and it does in fact wirelessly transfer data. Now for the suck: the dongle is huge (causing the reviewer to remove a peripheral plugged into an adjacent port), its range is less than good (6 feet compared to the “up to 30 feet” mentioned on the packaging) and the speeds were more like USB 1.1 than 2.0—probably the biggest disappointment.
Hands-on with Belkin’s Cable-Free USB Hub [engadget]
Wow, that is a really huge let down. I was actually planning on going and getting one…
Me too, Jon, me too. Looks like maybe you should wait a bit.
Another thing I noticed was that there seemed to be the power port in the front of the USB hub, which kinda looks ugly. Or at least it seems that way. As for the ginourmous dongle, most of it looks like styling (to match the gray part in the hub), so I bet you could hack it off. It is not like anyone sees that dongle.
But yeah, those transfer speeds are very lame. All these tech letdowns…
That sux. Has anyone every purchased a decent Belkin product that lasts more than 3 months and does what it’s supposed to do?
Given the steep price of $199 you would expect more.. Back to the drawing board… Maybe Kensington will get it right ;)
I need an index to your archives so I can look up stuff like “what’re the best cheap earbuds” and other stuff like that. Whaddaya mean, you don’t need no stinkin’ archives?
…see, size does matter.