Y-E Data's YD-300 WUSB-HUB: Japan's first wireless USB hub

by Thomas Ricker, posted Mar 30th 2007 at 9:23AM

A full six months after announcing it, Y-E Data is ready to ship their YD-300 wireless USB hub. While this hub reportedly packs the same (or at least similar) Multiband OFDM radio from Wisair we've already seen in the Belkin Cable-Free USB hub, we don't see a "Certified Wireless USB" sticker anywhere... so who knows. While they promise up to 480Mbps at distances of up to 10-meters, in practice however, this drops to a paltry 30Mbps (max!) and even that degrades significantly over just a few meters. You can forget HD streaming since there's no support for isochronous data, quality of service, or medium bandwidth reservation to ensure data arrives in time. But hey, it makes a fine ¥39,800 ($338) solution for moving your keyboard a bit further away from the monitor.

[Via Impress]

Read -- Impress review
Read -- product page

Filed under: Peripherals, Wireless

Tags: certified wireless usb, CertifiedWirelessUsb, japan, UWB, wimedia, wisair, y-e data, Y-eData, yd-300

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Jeffrey @ Mar 30th 2007 9:38AM

For $338, I'd expect something that doesn't look like $7.

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Yorrik @ Mar 30th 2007 10:21AM

indeed. it looks like something realy cheap without a cable...

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shmengie @ Mar 30th 2007 11:00AM

for $338, it should also get me laid.

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Scabrous Vermicelli @ Mar 30th 2007 11:32AM

Translucent blue plastic? Welcome to the 1990's!

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Andrew @ Mar 30th 2007 11:52AM

I never even knew you could get wireless USB hubs, it may seem expensive but it would stop my wife shouting at me for the spagetthi of cables that are apparantly under my desk!

Me thinks i will find out about the belkin one.

Great site

Andrew
http://www.madgit.co.uk

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Hemanth @ Mar 30th 2007 12:54PM

Well, when the belkin one is available for $120.. what's so big deal about this cheap looking one for $330 but for the cost!

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mkrell @ Mar 30th 2007 12:58PM

The reason you don't see "certified wireless USB" is that it is not. This is a proprietary device that will not talk to the Certified Wireless USB devices that will be hitting the market in the next few months.

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real_gd_@_flash @ Mar 30th 2007 4:17PM

has anyone thought that there still going to need a power wire to the hub??

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Tim @ Apr 4th 2007 5:30AM

what's with the Art Lebedev style of pricing?

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