Belkin IEEE 1394B 3-PORT HUB ( F5U624-APL )

Average customer rating: 2.0

This is a three port hub.
not a 3-port hub
This 3 port hub is really only a 2 port hub

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Belkin IEEE 1394B 3-PORT HUB ( F5U624-APL )

Manufacturer: Belkin Components
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B0001MVB5A

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Product Description

Designed to deliver up to double the transfer-speed efficiency of the original FireWire technology, this FireWire 800 3-Port Hub from Belkin allows you to connect multiple computers or FireWire devices simultaneously. The Belkin FireWire 800 3-Port Hub provides excellent results for bandwidth-intensive applications like high-speed external disk drives, portable storage devices, digital audio and video, and home entertainment components.

Customer Reviews:

This is a three port hub........2007-01-26

This is indeed a three port hub, perhaps it would help the others if Amazon showed a picture of the connections.
The other reviews miss the point. When I buy a 3-port hub for 1394, I expect three ports. 1394 is not a hosted interface like USB where a hub would connect a single host to multiple targets. This is more versatile, like an ethernet hub, where 3 ports is just that, 3 ports. Try connecting two computers through USB, it will not work. This hub can connect three computers together, and they can transfer data as in a network, only at 800 Mb/s, just shy of GBe, but way faster than 100 base T. Here is a bit of technical information, a three port hub is simply the Texas Instruments Physical layer chip and a power supply. Any manufacturer will make a good product, select it for price or looks, this one is the cheapest I have found. Yes, I am an engineer, no, I do not work for Belkin.

not a 3-port hub.......2007-01-12

they really ought to re-name this to a 2-port hub (or, more accurately, a splitter).
Given that one of the ports is used for the input, to call it a 3-port hub is misleading.
It's better to underpromise and overdeliver.

This 3 port hub is really only a 2 port hub.......2006-11-21

I have not had a chance to really test this hub, but 1 of the 3 ports must be used to connect to the computer. This leaves only 2 hubs for device connection. In my way of thinking this is a 2 port hub. Any hub I have owned in the past has a dedicated port used to connect the hub to the computer. It is advertized as a X port hub where X is the number of devices you can connect to the hub.

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