{"id":39220,"date":"2023-04-28T14:06:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T18:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39220"},"modified":"2023-05-01T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:22:10","slug":"belkin-connect-usb-c-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/28\/belkin-connect-usb-c-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Belkin Connect USB-C Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/04\/26\/belkin-connect-4-port-usb-c-hub\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/04\/26\/belkin-connect-4-port-usb-c-hub\/\"><p>Popular Apple accessory maker Belkin recently introduced the Connect 4-Port USB-C Hub, which is the company&rsquo;s first U.S. product made from post-consumer recycled plastics (PCR).<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Made to be compact, the hub includes four USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 ports, and it supports pass-through charging of up to 100W.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Belkin says that its new USB-C hub is the only hub on the market able to deliver a maximum of 10Gb\/s, which is 2x faster than other available hubs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems like a pretty good deal at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belkin.com\/usb-c-to-4-port-usb-c-hub\/AVC018btBK.html\">$44.99<\/a>, but if you use one port for PD it really only gives you an additional <em>two<\/em> USB-C ports. We&rsquo;re now about eight years into this transition, and there still seems to be no way to attach a large number of USB-C devices without using adapters.<\/p>\n<p>My peripherals still use a mix of ports. Hotels and other public charging places use mostly USB-A. These days I&rsquo;m carrying cables and adapters for USB-A, USB-C, Micro-USB, Lightning, MagSafe, and Apple Watch. Some devices need multiple cables, because sometimes I want to charge them from my MacBook Pro (USB-C only) but other times from USB-A.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/06\/eu-passes-law-to-switch-iphone-to-usb-c\/\">EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/27\/usb-c-is-still-a-mess\/\">USB-C Is Still a Mess<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/14\/the-impossible-dream-of-usb-c\/\">The Impossible Dream of USB-C<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/the-12-inch-macbook\/\">The 12-inch MacBook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"belkin-connect-usb-c-hub-update-2023-05-01\">Update (2023-05-01): This is <em>not<\/em> the first such hub, as I mentioned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sitecom.com\/en\/usb-c-hub-4-port\/cn-386\/p\/1881\">Sitecom CN-386<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/27\/usb-c-is-still-a-mess\/\">three years ago<\/a>. However, the reviews for that one weren&rsquo;t great; I have more faith in this one given Belkin&rsquo;s reputation. <a href=\"https:\/\/atp.fm\/532\">Marco Arment<\/a> says that perhaps the lack of USB-C hubs with lots of ports is due to the inability to support so many full-speed connections. If so, I would certainly welcome hubs with a mix of fast and slow ports, as were common with earlier versions of USB. That complexity would be a small price to pay to get more ports&mdash;and not need to use adapters or daisy-chain hubs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: Popular Apple accessory maker Belkin recently introduced the Connect 4-Port USB-C Hub, which is the company&rsquo;s first U.S. product made from post-consumer recycled plastics (PCR).[&#8230;]Made to be compact, the hub includes four USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 ports, and it supports pass-through charging of up to 100W.[&#8230;]Belkin says that its new USB-C hub is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-04-28T18:06:43Z","apple_news_api_id":"85abe852-8a5a-4aba-8b1e-c278d52caab7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-05-01T13:22:13Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AhavoUopaSrqLHsJ41Syqtw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1034,452,30,280,175,1154],"class_list":["post-39220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-belkin","tag-hardware","tag-mac","tag-power","tag-usb","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39232,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39220\/revisions\/39232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}