Long story short, the dongle doesn't receive any wireless signal when plugged into the hub. Since this is the reason I received the damn thing for Christmas this is most annoying, as my laptop only has one usb port.

Please help.

take it out, restart comp, try again.

any software provided install, if already installed, uninstall, restart, install, try again.

thats always worked for any probs ive had

Well it didn't sort this one.

lol u cant have tried all tht already

the software must have a help website as well

I'd already tried it to begin with because my brain is not made of soggy mush!


There does not appear to be a website that I can find, and the back of the box is mostly what appear to be Japanese.

It literally says on the front '4 ports hub'. That's it.

ok im only trying to help

No offense intended, I was just trying to point out that I'm not as stupid as some people think.

Anymore help from anyone would be greatly appreciated.

Is the hub powered? Wireless devices need a fair bit of power, so generally will require a powered hub or normal USB port to work. The problem with hubs is they split power across 4 ports, which isn't enough for some devices.

I take it the dongle works when plugged directly into the laptop?

It does.

And it definitely detects it ok, as the dongle lights up, and the wireless utility starts running. It simply doesn't find any wireless networks.

So can it detect networks when plugged straight into the laptop?

And is the hub powered? IE does it have an external power source?

No, however I am certain it is not power constraints.

I've tried this thing with three pendrives and a webcam plugged in. It got rather warm, but worked.

well you have 5V @ 150ma to share between things
Power is always a constraint with wireless things... just tested, wifi wont work when plugged into Zboard's usb port

Pendrives typically need very little power. Webcams need a bit more, but not that much.

Wireless, however, needs a lot of power, it needs to broadcast a fairly long range radio signal, which isn't that easy.

Well, I found that it could be powered from a chord, it just didn't come with one. I found one that matched what it needed (it said it needed 5 volts). However, it still didn't damnwell work. HELP!

So you plugged an external 5V power adapter into the hub? Are you sure this plug had the right polarity, as there are 2 arrangements it could be.

Yes, because it lit up without being connected to the laptop. And according to my Dad, if it had been the wrong polarity, it would have died.

True, if it's lit with LEDs they only work with one polarity. I'm afraid I don't know, then.

Limited data flow?

There shouldn't be a problem with that, unless it's only a USB1.1 hub, which could cause limitations.

Well its a USB1.1 port its plugged into, dunno bout his hub though.

Hub is USB 2, and it should at least detect something, regardless of data limitations. If it was that I'd simply expect it to be slow.

Oh, I forgot teh port was USB1.1, that's the limitation. If it works fine in the laptop USB but not in the hub, I can't see what could be causing the problem.

Have you tried it in another computer?

If my dad ever gets round to it, he'll be trying it on his PC.