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Summary: Not as PDA compatible as it claims
Review: I bought this unit to interface my Palm V's serial cradle to my new notebook that has only USB ports. Not a good choice. The unit "features" a MANUAL RESET BUTTON which must be pressed for 5 seconds every time the computer comes out of sleep mode to restart the ports. Its drivers are not smart enough to do this by themselves. (Forget about putting the hub out of sight to eliminate the clutter)Even with the reset button, I often had to exit and restart the Palm Hotsync manager to get it to talk to the Palm. Also, the unit requires its own power brick, adding to the clutter on the desk. Avoid this unit unless you really need all the ports
Rating:
Summary: Not as PDA compatible as it claims
Review: I bought this unit to interface my Palm V's serial cradle to my new notebook that has only USB ports. Not a good choice. The unit "features" a MANUAL RESET BUTTON which must be pressed for 5 seconds every time the computer comes out of sleep mode to restart the ports. Its drivers are not smart enough to do this by themselves. (Forget about putting the hub out of sight to eliminate the clutter) Even with the reset button, I often had to exit and restart the Palm Hotsync manager to get it to talk to the Palm. Also, the unit requires its own power brick, adding to the clutter on the desk. Avoid this unit unless you really need all the ports
Rating:
Summary: Not as PDA compatible as it claims
Review: I bought this unit to interface my Palm V's serial cradle to my new notebook that has only USB ports. Not a good choice. The unit "features" a MANUAL RESET BUTTON which must be pressed for 5 seconds every time the computer comes out of sleep mode to restart the ports. Its drivers are not smart enough to do this by themselves. (Forget about putting the hub out of sight to eliminate the clutter) Even with the reset button, I often had to exit and restart the Palm Hotsync manager to get it to talk to the Palm. Also, the unit requires its own power brick, adding to the clutter on the desk. Avoid this unit unless you really need all the ports
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Summary: Very handy device
Review: I bought two of these, one for home and one for the office for my Dell laptop. Works like a champ with USB mouse and PS/2 keyboard. In addition to these two, at the office I use the network port and at home the parallel port. Plugging in one cable instead of three plus reducing clutter on my desk are very nice. I did have to download the 2.3 driver from Targus. It worked better than the 2.4 driver that came in the package.
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Summary: Very handy device
Review: I bought two of these, one for home and one for the office for my Dell laptop. Works like a champ with USB mouse and PS/2 keyboard. In addition to these two, at the office I use the network port and at home the parallel port. Plugging in one cable instead of three plus reducing clutter on my desk are very nice. I did have to download the 2.3 driver from Targus. It worked better than the 2.4 driver that came in the package.
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Summary: No suppport at Targus
Review: I tried to use this with XP - forget it! No drivers at Targus, their search did not even find the hub! Most of the connections kind of worked, but not the serial port which was what I wanted to use it for in the first place since my notebook has none and I needed to support my Palm Pilot.
I at least expected a support note, but came up with zip. If this is the way they support their products I won't buy a Targus brand product again. Don't waste your time.
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Summary: If you got many devices, skip this product
Review: If you read the manual, it will tell you that the main product limitation comes from having to share one USB 1.1 port with many different devices-- your mouse and keyboard interactions will be guaranteed to hiccup every 3 seconds. I thought it was a great idea until I tried it out myself.
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Summary: Do NOT buy this port replicator!
Review: NO Support from Targus.
Doesn't work correctly with the ethernet connection.
Can't find out if it actually supports USB 2.0- probably does not, from what I've managed to find.
I did finally get the ps/2 and keyboard ports to work, which is what I really wanted/needed it for.
I purchased this from an amazon reseller, and I'll try (yeah, right) to return it. What a piece of junk. Mine came used, scratched, with no original driver disc.
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