Excellent addition to your travel kit
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September 18, 2008
True story: I was a passenger in a car on a lengthy expressway trip zipping along at . . . well, it wasn't 55. I was trying to work on a deadline project using my laptop and absolutely, positively needed to get online to fetch some information from the web. No problem thought I: I'll use my cell phone as a modem. I reached into my travel bag for my cell phone's USB cable and - yep, I had left it at home. (Bluetooth wasn't working.)
For a moment I sort of panicked, thinking we would have to take time to connect at a truck stop. Then I remembered this handy little kit was tucked away in my bag.
A few seconds later, I had put the needed cable together and was online.
There are many kits like this on the market. I suspect that there are only one, two or a very few companies that make the fittings and they assemble the kits to the specificationas of their customers like Cables To Go, Belkin and others.
This Cables To Go kit is more fully featured than any other I've seen so far. It not only has every relatively common USB connector, it also has 6-pin and 4-pin Firewire connectors, an RJ-11 (telephone jack) cable, another for RJ-45 (CAT5 network), a mouse suitable for short-term use, a 4-port USB hub and a surpisingly useful RJ-45 crossover cable (which can come in very handy when you need to move massive amounts of data from one computer to another).
Overall, this is a great value. It is not something that you're likely to use every day, but, let's say, when you're zipping down the highway and absolutely, positively need to hook up with your cell phone to get online and realize you forgot your specialty cable, you'll appreciate having this kit on hand.
Jerry
Very useful
September 18, 2008
Not sure whether I'll every use some of the adapters, but overall the package is quality and compact. Great value.
Great cable kit.
August 28, 2008
This works really well if you travel or have a notebook you use at work and at home. It has everything. It is a great buy -- my husband is thrilled with it.
Great organization
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August 24, 2008
This is one of those products that I wish I could have bought much sooner. it has a wide variety of different cable needs for my laptop and the best part is that it is all neatly arranged in one place for me to refer to. As a heavy notebook and travel computing user, I was constantly plagued with clutter in my computer bag, and having great difficulty finding anything among the dozens of pockets. With this kit, all of my cabling needs are in one place, that I can quickly get too, and no more fumbling.
It's OK but ....
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August 19, 2008
I just received the kit. It comes in a nice case. The mouse is nice. The hub works. I haven't tried out the rest. However, there is a little note inside with comments on the various gizmos which appear to mean if you use a few of them, you will blow your computer up or something negative. Strange.
Also there is supposed to be earplugs and a microphone. Well, the earplugs work, but I don't see or hear any microphone. The cords seem to be a bit short too.
So I guess it is a mixed bag. However, I surfed around before I bought this and other sites are charging a lot more for it.
