[Herefordshire] Usb hub

[EdwardFW at aol.com]

Then I suggest a powered hub, and with more rather than less ports so you 
don't run out of them

And I suggest researching (esp. what works with Linux) and paying for a good 
one. Cheap ones can work well but may have a power supply that gets quite hot. 
I have never had one fail and I am not an electrician but they are on all the 
time the PC is and I don't like it.

Some suppliers of things that connect to USB say their kit should be 
connected directly to the PC, rather than a hub. I think this goes back to USB's early 
days when compliance with the standards was poor. I haven't had problems when 
disobeying this but a hub will also allow you to keep the PC's connections 
free for anything that is fussy.

Cheers, Edward
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