Title: The external power seems to light the (useless) lights only and not power the extra ports
Product review: I've used this for over a year and never suspected until reading here that all my troubles seem to be because the external power hook-up is to power the always on useless green lights, and not to supply extra power to the ports. If this is true, then no wonder my external drives would sometimes disconnect at random, or my iPad would not charge reliably. Ugh, if only I'd known earlier. Why would they make something like that except into fooling you it's something it's not. Very disappointed! Oh well, I'll miss the Christmas tree effect of the useless green lights at nite, but not my external hard drives going off line at random.
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