Plugable’s New 10-Port USB 2.0 Hub

Posted on 01. Nov, 2010 by in Windows

A lot of USB hubs end up looking like a porcupine on your desk – wires going in all directions.

So we’re excited to launch a hub with a lots of expandability (10 ports), but with a simple and clean design.

  • Full USB 2.0/1.1 performance and compatibility. No compromises. Works on all platforms with no drivers (i.e. it’s a standard USB 2.0 hub)
  • Cascaded Terminus Technology chipsets – the best designed, lowest power, most reliable USB 2.0 hub controller out there right now
  • The 10 ports (plus upstream port to PC and AC power) are all on just two sides of the hub, minimizing cable clutter
  • Two of the ports swivel to a vertical position – so if you want a flash drive or antenna to stick up, that works. If you want everything to lay flat so you can stack on the hub, no problem
  • A blue LED bar down the center of the device signals power. 2.5A AC adapter included

The customer feedback from this hub design has been surprising us – you wouldn’t think in 2010 that a USB 2.0 hub could get people excited. But buyers have written with disproportionately positive feedback like “Easy to use and a really helpful device” and “Exactly what I was looking for”.

With many laptops only having 2 or 3 USB ports, the easy expandability of a hub like this is a nice win.

Check out more pics and details on the Amazon product page

Plugable USB 2.0 10 Port Hub (with Power Adapter) Product Details $26.95

Happy Birthday Plugable!

Posted on 17. Sep, 2010 by in Windows

Plugable Technologies brought its first product to market a year ago this month.

We’re humbled by and extremely appreciative of the more than 2000 customers we’ve served since then. Thank you!!

As a way of celebrating, we’re dropping prices on two of our lead products, just for a limited time from now until September 30th.

The Plugable UGA-2K-A (DisplayLink 195 chipset), which was previously $69.95 is now $57.20.
The Plugable UGA-125 (DisplayLink 125 chipset), which was previously $49.95 is now $46.20.

Thank you so much for your support of Plugable. We’re in this for you, and we very much appreciate your going out of your way to choose our products!

Plugable Open Source Hardware Samples Program

Posted on 16. Sep, 2010 by in udlfb

From time to time Plugable has extra test hardware around our labs. Rather than have it gather dust, we’d like to send it out to the open source community to help foster driver development.

We know how much work open source driver development is — getting hardware should be the easiest part of it. So today we’re announcing a new program to better get test devices out to developers who can use them.

If you’re a developer with a history submitting patches for Linux or other platforms, please submit your request for Plugable sample hardware here. Because we’ll have only a trickle of each type over device over time, an important part of this is having some idea of what prior driver development contributions you’ve made. We’ll try to focus on matching hardware to the developers most likely to be able to contribute improvements in that area.

Plugable’s products cover a fairly wide range of USB and other devices. See http://plugable.com/shop/ for our products that will be available from time to time under this program.

We’ve long been doing this kind of thing with the commercial vendors. Having worked on Windows and at Microsoft, we try to drop off samples to get them using, testing, and developing against our hardware. We’d do the same for Apple or others. This is our attempt to get these same benefits going with the wider open source community.

We hope this will seed some good things over time. And we welcome any feedback or suggestions on this program anytime.

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