Recent content by DLes

I now understand that the best keyboard keys are "double-shot" or "double-injection molded", as opposed to just having letters painted on. Apple keyboards used to be the former, but they aren't cheap. But who precisely markets these? As to the painted-on ones, I understand that painting them...

As I said, it was uber cheap, and it isn't about the cost. It's about the effort expended to replace a keyboard that you can't read the keys on anymore. I'd be happy to pay a bit more for a decent one that will be usable for a few years. You'd like to believe that keyboard manufacturers would...

I made the mistake of getting an uber cheap Rii907 USB cabled keyboard as a replacement. Works well, BUT, the print on the keys wears off after a year or so. I've ended up painting on letters! Now, Apple used to make keyboards in which the letters were deeply embossed into the plastic and never...

I've gotten a few of these cheap hubs, and it seems to happen with each one. I guess I have to assume that they are all intrinsically defective.

OK, we're talking about a MOUSE. It is an LED wired mouse. No way that needs much current. And a 2.5W splitter should provide all 2.5W if there is only one thing plugged in. This mouse should need about 500mW. If a USB splitter can't power a mouse, what in the world are they for?

I usually use powered hubs for all my USB expansion, and they work great. But occasionally, I just want to connect low power (mouse, keyboard), so I defer to an unpowered hub. They RARELY work. I have one USB2 unpowered hub I just got that misbehaves. I plug it in, with a mouse. It doesn't work...

In my business, NOBODY does. NONE of my friends do at home. Maybe some people do that to save power? Sheesh. Then we're done. I appreciate constructive comments from at least the other posters.

Sorry, but I think this product is implicitly marketed as something you can connect multiple machines to. Who in the world turns off a computer when they're not using it? I mean, you just don't do that! If I'm making a mistake, the vendor is presuming that EVERYONE will make this mistake...

I think you're extrapolating. To me, "Only one device can connect to the internet at a time" means that you can have three computers connected to this thing, but you can only use the internet one one at a time. That's fine by me. I only use one of these computers at a time. You know, I don't...

Ah, powering off will do it. Tricky! This has been a fascinating discussion. Thank you, everyone.

That's really interesting, and appears not to be admitted by anyone advertising these things. I think you do need to pull cables because, like I said, for my Temu device you can't even have two computers plugged into one at the same time! So if you want to use one machine, the other actually...

OK, thank you. It'll be another plug-in switch. But I am really puzzled what these passive dongles are supposed to accomplish. They SAY they're for sharing an ethernet connection. So this is just all false advertising everywhere? These things are sold by pretty reputable places. Yes, these...

Well, the line actually comes from a switch, which is next to the router, and distributing the ethernet to different ports in different rooms. So yes, I could tack another switch onto the switch, but I was hoping for a passive device that I didn't need to plug in. Not possible? If I need a...

Actually, I've gotten a lot of decent stuff, including electronic peripherals, from Temu. You do have to be careful, though. And yes, the stuff is cheap and built cheaply.

So, OK, that"splitter"is not intended to allow an ethernet line to be shared. How do I share an ethernet line? Ideally in some passive way. Is there a simple dongle that will allow this?