A short story of me trying out different USB-C hubs, taking them apart, and slowly descending into madness.

I was looking for a new USB-c hub and came across this article. It’s an interesting write-up of what is on the inside of some popular options

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Thank you! I had an Anker hub in the past, but had some trouble with the Ethernet dropping when using it heavily (ex. during a zoom meeting or when moving large files). I’m not sure if that was an Anker issue or just something with hubs in general. I’m still open to another Anker one, but I was looking for other options as well

    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Anker is in fact mentionned in that article as the resell products from china company that it is. You might be going “there’s nothing wrong with that” since they do have additional staff and put in work for aditionnal quality control, but ultimately their products aren’t really better than shovel hardware you can find on AliExpress.

      (Note that the autho basically only has a problem because he uses a Mac and the realtek chip in all those cheap (actually $100 when dropshipped to you nice) hubs says it’s Mac compatible but it isn’t.

    • lenathaw@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Anker is a great brand for anything power related (chargers, cables, batteries, etc). Everything else, not so much