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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Great little device. The switch does what it purports to do. Just like in the old days with a parallel printer switch box.

Instead of constantly plugging in & unplugging printers, all i have to do is press a button. Works great for my folks to share one printer between their dell desktop and hp laptop pcs. Comes with 2 printer style usb cords which is what i needed to...  Read More



Cons

Very shoddy workmanship. Not good quality of it lasts only 2 months. Not an environmentally friendly product. It is worthless.

The usb-a connector is the cheapest piece of chinese hardware they could find, plugs will not seat reliabley at all. It is not immediately obvious that these are supposed to be rocker switches.

Worked fine for 5 months and then stopped working. Trouble is, it doesn't work on usb 3 ports on macs. Here it is october 23rd 2019 and it don’t work anymore.

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Highlights

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Quality


Thank you fora quality product that works perfectly


The unit worked great for routing 2 laptop to one printer


Instead of constantly plugging in unplugging printers all i have to do is press a button


Been fighting with multiple computers and only one printer i should have done this years ago

Price


Exactly what i wanted at a good price

Competitiveness


I use it to connect two computers to one printer butyou could also use it for other applications like switching between two mice etc

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    two, easy, great, simple and connected.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 1,190 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 7 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I had when the wifi goes out and me and my sister are unable to print from our computers


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    When wifi not working i can still get my job done


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I did not want to mess with wifi on the printer just to hook two computers to one printer


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    We just connected this ab switch to print from two computers in the same room


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Just two pushbutton switches that engage or disengage all contacts


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Im using this with a 4port unpowered usb hub to connect an rgb logitech keyboard and a wireless mouse receiver


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Switching between a windows machine and a mac takes about 2 seconds


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    If i had to pick on anything at all it would be that the blue usb cables are kind of ugly but theyre taped to the underside of my desk so i dont really care

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