A USB Port by Any Other Color…

Hackaday reports on a cautionary tale: a cheap USB 3-point-zero hub ordered online turned out to be completely counterfeit. The blue connectors looked the part, but the guts were pure USB 2-point-zero, built from budget chips where all the ports share the same USB 1-point-one bandwidth. Beyond the deception, the construction was shoddy: missing solder joints, cables soldered straight to the board, no bypass capacitors, and dangerous power-delivery practices that could feed current back to your PC. If you suspect your own hubs might be fakes, try running 'lsusb dash T' on Linux to check the negotiated speed. If you're only seeing USB 2-point-zero, someone's lying about what you bought.

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