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Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: Black
Date: May 25, 2014 01:44PM
I am about to go all-USB3 on my hubs, leaving me with two working/used USB 2.0 hubs and two unused/still in sealed package USB hubs. All powered, 7-port-ish.
Wondering if it's worth the effort to try to sell the whole lot on eBay.... is there conceivably anyone out there who would still have a use for 4 of these?
thx
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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: Black
Date: May 25, 2014 01:47PM
Also-- I saw an Amazon "answered question" that stated that the slowest USB device pulls the rest of the chain down to that speed....that's wrong, right?
I was thinking of having a USB 3 hub coming directly off the mac, and then a USB2 hub coming off of that for the devices that don't need USB3.
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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: freeradical
Date: May 25, 2014 01:50PM
I'm sure that anyone who doesn't have USB 3 on their computer would have a use for them.
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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: Speedy
Date: May 25, 2014 01:55PM
My one and only hub is from USB1 days. Still does what I need. Sell them on eBay.


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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: billb
Date: May 25, 2014 01:55PM
do they have FDD built in ?
Mac drivers taped to the bottom ?


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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: space-time
Date: May 25, 2014 02:27PM
what brand/model, I may be interested in one. Thanks
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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: Zoidberg
Date: May 25, 2014 02:59PM
In the USB2 days, if you plugged in a USB1 device, it brought everything down to that speed. They fixed that in the USB3 spec. No longer an issue.


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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: freeradical
Date: May 25, 2014 03:10PM
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Zoidberg
In the USB2 days, if you plugged in a USB1 device, it brought everything down to that speed. They fixed that in the USB3 spec. No longer an issue.


For real?
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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: Black
Date: May 25, 2014 03:21PM
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space-time
what brand/model, I may be interested in one. Thanks

2 of these-- one in use, one packaged:
[www.geeks.com]


One of these packaged/unused:
[www.ebay.com]

And one in use that looks like this:
[www.newegg.com]
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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: Dadlawyer
Date: May 25, 2014 04:40PM
LIST THEM, AM ALWAYS IN NEED.
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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: ka jowct
Date: May 25, 2014 04:47PM
I still use them. We only have one computer in the place with native USB 3. I have a CalDigit eSATA/USB3 card in the Mac Pro, but hubs and USB 3 cards don't seem to get along.
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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: sekker
Date: May 25, 2014 04:58PM
Apple does - that's what's in the Thunderbolt Display...
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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: Black
Date: May 25, 2014 06:02PM
So my question is not so much whether anyone still uses them, but whether anyone still needs to acquire them, and if so, if selling the 4 as a lot would make any sense (yes, I know I'll get more selling them individually but would rather have 1/4 the hassle.)
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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: Jack D.
Date: May 25, 2014 06:06PM
Whoa! They came out with USB TWO??? When did that happen??? wiggle smiley


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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: space-time
Date: May 25, 2014 06:17PM
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Jack D.
Whoa! They came out with USB TWO??? When did that happen??? wiggle smiley

Have you ever seen those hard drives with Y cable that plugs into 2 USB 2.0 ports? I call those USB 4.0
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Re: Does anyone have a use for USB 2 hubs anymore?
Posted by: MacDoxy
Date: May 25, 2014 08:51PM
ipad musicians use any hub that will transmit midi. keeps the power drain off the ipad
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