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entwisi · 17-02-2005, 18:35

One thing to be aware of is that some products need a power supply down the USB cable. If you add too many devices to a single port then you can introduce instabilities. Particularly vunerable are USB BB modems. You can get powered hubs to sort this.

Oh and be aware that whilst you have 4 'ports' on the machine these are usually sharing two resources inside to adding 3items to each means 6 items on one port!

If it is purely a case of leaving stuff plugged in so you aren't messing around swaping cables then you should be OK with unpowered.

Ian

17-02-2005, 18:35	#7
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4387	Re: Where in Accy can i get.. One thing to be aware of is that some products need a power supply down the USB cable. If you add too many devices to a single port then you can introduce instabilities. Particularly vunerable are USB BB modems. You can get powered hubs to sort this. Oh and be aware that whilst you have 4 'ports' on the machine these are usually sharing two resources inside to adding 3items to each means 6 items on one port! If it is purely a case of leaving stuff plugged in so you aren't messing around swaping cables then you should be OK with unpowered. Ian