Coolgear 3 2 Gen 1 USB Hub - 4 Port USB Hub with 5Gbps Data Transfers Mountable Metal

I like the 'condensation' effect on the painted finish. The USB sockets have 15mm spacing which is enough room for 4x RTL-SDR dongles and airflow between using a 70mm fan. It is able to power them all via USB alone if the host is compliant such as a desktop PC. As expected, my Raspberry Pi 4b and Small format PC required use of the supplied power adaptor. No issues with dropped packets either way. The USB socket shielding and PCB ground are isolated from the metal case. I wish it had additional screw terminals for 5V in/out along with the barrel connector for the industial setting. Needless to say I've had it apart and it's of high quality and solidly made. It's not clear what each of the 3 LED's on the PCB mean from the outside with the lid on but you get a nice green lightshow shining brightly through the vents. It's compact and tough enough for my project, This one is going to live in a metal box outdoors for a while but I might get another one to screw to my desk because I think it's really sweet! Read more

Like Ringoo, I also have a simulator that’s used for iRacing, and very high-end wheel with a large display, tons of LEDs, and backlit buttons. (GSI Hyper P1 wheel.) The software for the wheel warns you against using Medium or High brightness for the LEDs and Buttons. Even set to Low brightness in the drivers and then lowered quite a bit more via Simhub (the app that drives all the lights and dashboard while racing) it was having random disconnects on various other powered hubs, or when directly connected to my Asus z790 Hero Motherboard due to requiring about 10 - 15’ of cable to reach the PC from my simulator. I bought this hub after seeing it recommended in the wheel manufacturers Discord site. I connected this hub directly to my PC motherboard via a Cable Matters 10’ USB-B to USB-A USB 3.0 cable instead of the 3’ included cable, and then mounted the hub to my simulator. My wheel connects to one of the four USB ports on it. With this hub, and ONLY this hub I am able to turn all the lights, displays and LEDs up so bright they will sear your eyeballs, & with zero USB drop out. This is AFTER trying 4 other powered USB 3.0 hubs, a powered USB-C hub, and multiple tries with different length USB-A to Female USB-A 3.0 extension cables, with and without a power cord connection or repeater, to connect the wheel to my motherboard without a hub (to USB 3.2 10gb’s ports or 3.0 ports.) No other solution worked, but this hub nails it. 5/5 Stars. Now to buy two more of the 7 port version! Read more

I mounted the switch under my desk and have been using it to charge and connect accessories. It has worked very well except for my older Sony headphones. This is the only usb switch that they refuse to charge from. Not sure the root cause, but you may have issues with some things not getting charging, etc. Read more

I got this to plug in a hub under my desk and it works a treat. Feels well built and the connections are all good. Pretty simple hub so it's not like my expectations are super high with it. It does what it's supposed to do which is all I'd ever ask of it. If I need another like this I'll definitely be buying one of these. Read more

I use this above my living room PC to hold the receivers for my wireless keyboard and gamepads with a good line of sight to the couch. Very solidly built and perfect for my application. No power delivery issues due to the dedicated power supply and I noticed no reduction in speed when using an external SSD. Read more

Bought a cheap power USB hub a while back. I play with raspberry pi's and need to write reliably to SD cards. The cheap hub could never write operating systems to the SD cards. Ended up just throwing it away in disgust. This power hub writes operating systems first time every time. It seems well built and very pleased with it. Worth the money. Read more

Died after about 14mo with only three things plugged into it, only one required power. Ewaste, would not buy. Read more

I had a particular wheelrim for my sim rig that was very power and data throughput hungry. This hub not only delivers enough power to the wheelrim, not only deals with the data throughput issues, but is built in a very solid metal housing and is very easy to mount to a profile rig. Nothing bad to say about this product; it's fantastic. Read more