VCOM 10Gbps USB C Hub, Usb C Splitter with 4 Type C Data Ports, 100W USB C Hub Powered, Docking Station for MacBook Pro/Air, Surface Pro, Dell, HP, Microsoft (Gray)

Well made

This is a good and reasonable basic hub for travel as its small and reasonably quick.

The VCOM USB C hub/port expander arrived neatly packed in a plain cardboard box.In the box you get the main unit and a short instruction manual.With todays minimalist laptops offering a minimal of useable ports, this USB 3.2 gen 2 hub is a very handy accessory to have.Connecting via its built in USB C cable it offers a very useable extra 4 USB C ports.A nice feature is the built in through charging facility to enable charging of your laptop while the unit is in use.Easily kept in your laptop case this will add to the versatility of your computer and ensure that you're never stuck for a USB C input port.Great value for a nice expansion option!

This must be one of the smallest four port USB hubs there is. Of course confining it to USB-C connections and taking advantage of the diminutive proportions of the hardware, helps in this regard.All four ports are 10Gbps so there is no need to label them and the makers save on silk screening the grey/blue anodised aluminium shell by limiting their printing to a logo and a lightning bolt defining a fifth USB-C port, on the end of the hub, as exclusively for power - 100W of power!The hub attaches to the host device, in my case an iPad Pro, using a long, thick and inflexible blue cable. The cable looks totally disproportionate to the small size of the hub and I wish it could be shorter so the hub could dangle from the socket. I am sure others welcome a decent length of wire on hubs like this after experiencing the large number that have short 7” wires, but on such a very small hub it looks out of place and will get in the way if you want to throw it into your travel bag.The thickness and inflexibility of the connecting wire probably attests to the hub actually being capable of supplying 100W of power; something I couldn’t check.I tested out the basic performance of the hub by connecting it to my iPad and moving files about on some flash drives. There were no problems doing this and playback of HD video and audio tracks was also flawless.As the iPad only has one USB-C socket for everything, including charging, the fifth port on this hub for a power supply is essential if you need to do protracted work involving external devices.The small dimensions of the hub causes the sockets to be so close together that chubby flash drives can’t be fitted in adjacent ports. USB-C leads are fine, but devices approaching the width of USB-A will not fit next to one another.At just under £20, after the 20% voucher is applied, this hub is towards the upper end of the price bracket, but it concentrates, and achieves, doing one job very well.

This was the perfect hub for my windows tablet pc.The hub allows for flow of power through it to charge the tablet pc.It has enough ports to run the devices required for most users.All the ports are USB C - which can be an issue for those that are slowing converting their add on devices to USB C.All in all a good unit that looks like it will have no issues being future proof.

A well made and extremely useful hub now that USB C is becoming more common than the older USB A variety for the majority of peripherals. This is especially the case for those smaller MacBooks with only one USB C port. My experience is that most hubs still concentrate on USB A, presumably to support people with older peripherals although equivalents to this one are becoming more available.The hub is neat and well made, with reinforcement around the cable ends. The 4 ports each allow the considerable data transfer rate of 10 GBPs. The charging pass through port at the end is also powerful at 100W.The hub has a 60cm cable, which is longer than most of the hubs that I have and allows for convenient placement.So, straightforward and effective.At the current price of £24.99 with a 20% voucher this is a very reasonable buy. Without the voucher (in case it has been removed by the time you are considering this hub) it is still fairly competitive with other equivalents and has the advantage of the long cable. I will rate it at its current reduced selling price and give it 5 stars.