This little device is great. Reasonably high quality build. I have used it for about 3 months at the time of this review (plugging, unplugging about 4 times a week) and it is still going strong. It certainly doesn't feel like it will be broken within a year of use.
I previously was using a Dell D6000 dock with my work laptop, but I found that the required, proprietary DisplayLink drivers that enabled multiple HDMI outputs slowed my Ubuntu machine to a crawl. The Dell dock works pretty flawlessly with Windows 10, but *I* do not work well with Windows 10. One day, the experience with the Dell dock started to degrade and then another day it didn't work at all -- the Dell dock actually fried by USB-C port which required repair. All of this headache pushed me to sacrifice a little bit of desk tidiness and convenience and give the Anker hub a try.
I have 2 monitors, an Ethernet connection, keyboard, mouse, and a power cable that I need to plug in every day when I arrive at work. With this unit, I plug one HDMI into the single output available on my laptop, and another into this dongle -- effectively giving me two monitors without extra, poorly optimized drivers. It's not *quite* as convenient as the dock I was using as now I need to plug in power, one HDMI and then this dongle, but it is the best I can do short of buying a new computer with better display outputs. Unless DisplayLink open-sources the Linux drivers so the community can improve them, I don't see myself ever using a product with their technology again.
The difference is night and day. I no longer experience 100% CPU usage running VSCode or any issues with my monitors being identified by the OS. The only thing I might prefer is if they had this device in a less portable design. I want this but as a dock that sits on my desk with a longer wire, so I can hide some of the cable spaghetti away.
All of that is to say that this is a great product that allows you to have all of your peripherals (or almost all of them in my case) plugged into one device that can be quickly plugged into your laptop when you sit down at your desk. Even if you don't have ultra-specific requirements like I did and just want a USB hub, you can't go wrong with this one as far as I can tell so far.
| Wireless Type | 802.11n |
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