{"id":844,"date":"2007-02-05T03:13:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T11:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/05d19b3fec829c218b1a0779ea1be837"},"modified":"2007-02-05T03:13:20","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T11:13:20","slug":"sixteen-port-hub-sounds-just-about-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen port hub sounds just about enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b ><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.engadget.com\/~r\/weblogsinc\/engadget\/~3\/83901091\/\">Century's 16-port USB 2.0 hub for two PCs<\/a><\/b> sounds like nirvana for USB junkies. Although 16 poirts sounds like an awful lot, I'm continually surprised at how many ports I need, and more surprised still at the fact that many of the ports are not being used for a USB device, per se. <\/p>\n<p>For example, off the back on machine I have the usual keyboard and mouse, plus some USB speakers. I also have a phone charger and the charger for my Bluetooth headset. Those last two could sap a lot of power, but probably less than the portable USB drive I use as a backup device.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=4EFCQI\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=4EFCQI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/86722062\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b ><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.engadget.com\/~r\/weblogsinc\/engadget\/~3\/83901091\/\">Century&#8217;s 16-port USB 2.0 hub for two PCs<\/a><\/b> sounds like nirvana for USB junkies. Although 16 poirts sounds like an awful lot, I&#8217;m continually surprised at how many ports I need, and more surprised still at the fact that many of the ports are not being used for a USB device, per se. <\/p>\n<p>For example, off the back on machine I have the usual keyboard and mouse, plus some USB speakers. I also have a phone charger and the charger for my Bluetooth headset. Those last two could sap a lot of power, but probably less than the portable USB drive I use as a backup device.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=4EFCQI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=4EFCQI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/86722062\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}