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Old 19th June 2009   #66
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Originally Posted by ark View Post
If you don't think that's enough of a downside to avoid, I doubt I can convince you. Nevertheless, I will add that my laptop has three USB ports, and dongle manufacturers often design dongles so that they will refuse to work with a hub. If I have software from two vendors that use two different dongles, that leaves me a single USB port for everything else.

So as far as I'm concerned, the optimum number of dongles is zero. So far I have had no difficulty maintaining that state of affairs.
There are no problems with hubs. I have a 4 port hub that has my 4 dongles on it, and they all work fine together. 1 iLok key, 2 Syncrosoft keys (could combine all on 1, but I have a reason to keep 1 separate) and 1 Yellow Tools WUBI dongle key. What other dongles are out there that will not work with a hub?!?
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