I was looking for a new USB-c hub and came across this article. It’s an interesting write-up of what is on the inside of some popular options

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    1 year ago

    I know they were in hot water because of eufy but I honestly still love my anker products. I honestly trust the power delivery or passthrough (whatever its called) but I guess the same can be said about any other hub that has the proper certifications so just make note of that when looking at products. Havent read the article yet in case its mentioned in there but I’ll skim it in the mornin. Good luck!

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      1 year ago

      Note that the last hub inspected in the Article is a Anker product which also seems to be rebranded one from another third-party producer. It has some better components, but nothing fundamentally better about it.

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      Thank you! I had an Anker hub in the past, but had some trouble with the Ethernet dropping when using it heavily (ex. during a zoom meeting or when moving large files). I’m not sure if that was an Anker issue or just something with hubs in general. I’m still open to another Anker one, but I was looking for other options as well

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        1 year ago

        Oh sorry to hear that. Hope someone comes up with something better. I’ll visit back here to see what other recommend

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      Anker is in fact mentionned in that article as the resell products from china company that it is. You might be going “there’s nothing wrong with that” since they do have additional staff and put in work for aditionnal quality control, but ultimately their products aren’t really better than shovel hardware you can find on AliExpress.

      (Note that the autho basically only has a problem because he uses a Mac and the realtek chip in all those cheap (actually $100 when dropshipped to you nice) hubs says it’s Mac compatible but it isn’t.

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      Anker is a great brand for anything power related (chargers, cables, batteries, etc). Everything else, not so much