Best USB and Firewire Hubs for Hardware

hardware immediately recognized by windows and that was that.

it then noticed i had added an external usb hard drive to it (which was recognized before i rebooted) and "added new hardware" for it.other thoughts: i'm not going to return it because i figured it

it has plenty of power and has worked well will all of my usb peripherals and hardware keys.

when i reboot the computer, all the devices are recognized, as they also are when the usb plugs are disconnected and reconnected on the fly (whenever possible i use the safely remove hardware

the new hardware is found as generic usb hub.

one of the easier hardware installations i've done for my home pc.

at first i thought the whole unit was defective, because 1) nothing lights up to show it's getting power and 2) windows xp pro didn't give me the standard "hardware found" dialog box.

good looking adn compitent piece of hardware.

pros: picked up hardware, and has ran soild since day one.cons: noneother thoughts: linksys is one of the top dogs with any type of hub,cant go wrong.

pros: excellent piece of hardware!works every time with no problems.windows picked it up on the first try and no troubles since.

however, whatever is going on inside this thing is causing hardware conflicts.

it would be nice if the unit would have some kind of cache that would fool your pc into thinking the usb device is still connected so that when you press the switch to select a computer that there is

our computers went ding-donk, letting us know that a usb had connected, and little bubbles came up saying that new hardware had been detected and was ready, and the little switch itself went beep a