Thanks for the memories.

[vakkotaur]

A few days ago I wound up transferring some file from the laptop to the desktop machine with a USB stick since wireless networking was once again wireless notworking. In doing so I rediscovered that I had more USB devices than available USB ports. I needed a USB hub.

I checked out Radio Shack more out of curiosity than anything and sure enough they had some "High Speed" hubs for not much money. Recalling something from a couple years ago I looked closer and sure enough, "High Speed" was USB 1.1 which is higher than USB 1.0 but much slower than USB 2.0. There were one or two USB 2.0 hubs which were, of course, more expensive. I left. While my current computer only does USB 1.1 anyway, there isn't much point in buying something that will end up being a bottleneck when I eventually do get something else.

Shopko was better. I think everything they had was USB 2.0 and the prices were better. I bought two hubs. The physically smaller 4-port got put in the laptop bag, just in case and the larger 3-port is now in place in the office. The bigger one is a bit more than the usual USB hub. It has slots for a bunch of different memory cards as the fourth port, so I can read just about anything out there now. I've only tried it with the SmartMedia card from one digital camera, but that worked just fine.