28-port USB hub

[Lazybones]

http://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/28-port-usb-hub.html

Hmm not sure what you would use it for but I can only imaging some strange project with a bunch of misc USB devices connected.

[Mr. Analog]

Whoa! If you had lots of instruments that used USB you could throw away your bulky old MIDI cables!

[Lazybones]

Hmm some ideas:

- A cheap TV tuner for almost every channel.
- Multiple wifi devices for lots of wifi channels.

[Thorin]

That's almost enough to charge all the devices in my house these days (phones, ipods, etc).

But seriously, keyboard, mouse, printer, headphones, external HDD, webcam, speakers, that's seven already.  ipod x 3, ipod touch x 2, iphone x 2, android phones x 2, digital camera x 4, steering wheel and pedals.  Wow, that's 21 devices already.  That I could hook up to one computer.

[Tom]

Hmm.. One possible issue with that, most USB chipsets contain two (or four) ports per chip/hub. To get that many, the entire device would have to internally daisy chain a crap load of usb hubs. And imagine the bandwidth of a single USB port being shared with 28 separate devices. USB tends to be a bit dumb about how it goes about sharing bandwidth. Even if a device isn't transferring data, it is normally allocated its own fair share of the bandwidth. So assuming stuff is plugged into each of those 28 ports, each device will get 1/28th of the bandwidth. I think you'd struggle to use anything more than dumb peripherals over 28 usb2 ports at the same time.

[Darren Dirt]

http://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/28-port-usb-hub.html

Hmm not sure what you would use it for but I can only imaging some strange project with a bunch of misc USB devices connected.

single-PC 28 channel recording studio?

[Melbosa]

We have a 14 port USB over Ethernet device at work, but you can guess why.

That is just insane for a local use.