I shopped around and this looked like a decent looking hub that met my needs (powered, 7 port). I needed to plugin 2 external drives, mouse, scanner, 2 ipods and sometimes my cell phone or camera. I found that my mouse would stop working from time to time. Power cycling the hub helped. Worse than that was running a VM (via VMWare) stored on the USB drive. Speed wasn't so bad, but after a while, VMWare complained the drive wasn't available. Sure enough, it wasn't mounted anymore. After putting up with this for a few months, not being sure what was at fault, the hub quit altogether. Kensington replaced it under warranty, but the new hub also showed the same issues with the drive. I have none of these issues plugging directly into my computer. I'm fed up and cannot recommend this! I'm shopping for something more reliable!

I'll begin by saying that I definitely do not recommend this hub. After about 2 months it completely malfunctioned. My pc no longer recognized devices that were connected via the hub. The indicators also stopped illuminating. I replaced it promptly with a D-Link DUB-H7 and have not had any problems. The D-Link has been in service for about 7 months.I'll end by saying that I definitely do not recommend this hub!!!!Good luck with your search...

I bought this unit because of its good looks, and indeed it has a better form factor than many other boxy USB hubs you could find. After I got the unit, it took me 10 minutes to get it working (which is believed to be some internal wiring issue of the hub), after 3 months, the unit failed miserably. Had it not had the good looks, it would have got 0 stars. :)

The hub works great. The best feature is that it is weighted so it doesn't creep or get pulled by the attached USB cables. Highly recommended.

Since I have 2 computers and have to move my usb cables frequently, this really is handy. Also, since one computer has only 3 ports and the other has more but in an inconvenient place, this makes plugging things in very easy. And I have lots of things to plug in... external storage disk, printers, scanner.

I bought this in 2007, and it's still working; I can't give it 5 stars even though it has been very stable, because it does occasionally lose connections, and has done since I got it--usually the keyboard and mouse. The hard drives I have plugged in have worked flawlessly over several years (and several different hard drives. It has begun to fail, but at nearly six years of age I don't call that early. It still works; the keyboard I'm typing on is plugged into it and from thence to my 6-year-old iMac. What's happening now is when I put a thumb drive into the top port it will lose power--not always, but often enough that I need a replacement. I'll be getting another of these.