Anker USB C Docking Station, PowerExpand 9-in-1

Please do not buy this item. I purchased two of them. The primary issue is that one has now killed two of my brand-new LG Gram laptops. First one it fried so hard it wouldn’t even boot up anymore when I absent mindedly unplugged the docking station while it was running with the computer attached. Second time we had an electrical storm which interrupted power and despite being plugged into a surge protector the docking station again fried the USBC ports (both somehow) which disabled the laptop from being able to be linked to a docking station or charge. Less importantly but still annoyingly is they simply just don’t work well. For $150 you can get a WAY better docking station than this. The display connection is super glitchy and unreliable. The audio jack gives feedback constantly to the point where I had to turn off my speakers when the computer is turned off otherwise there is a constant buzzing sound. After it killed my second computer, I went to my local office supply store and bought one for $100 that works WAY better in every way. Don’t buy this cheap junk. The fact that they want to charge a premium price for a cheap garbage docking station is insane. I would expect these kinds of issues from a $50 docking station, but I paid the extra money because I thought I was getting a better product. Instead, I was charged a premium price and got a crap product. Please do yourself a favor and do not waste your money on this cheap crap.

Wanted a hub to deal with the peripherals and extra monitors at work and to keep me from having to dig my power cable out for my laptop every day.

This fit the bill and hasn’t steered me wrong since I’ve owned it.

It’s hard to find a dock that will give you full speeds on the Ethernet port. This one does! Works great with a usb 3.2 Gen 2 extension cable as well

It appears the power supply died after 45 days. Called Anker. They had a replacement to me within 48 hours! Crazy good support. I was blown away. The product functions well. I think we just had a bum power supply. I highly recommend Anker products!

I’ve bought one of those a little over 2 years ago. I really enjoy Anker for multiple other product but this was a bust. From the get-go, the aux wasn’t working for my headset. A few months later, I decided to contact Anker because I was getting tired of not being able to use my device completely.

After receiving the new unit, everything worked fine for another few months and it’s been degrading rapidly ever since. Aux not working again, the front usb 3.0 stopped working not too long after, HDMI stopped working and now the entire thing won’t connect.

If you need something to use once a month, it might be a good deal, but for daily use, you’ll have to plan a budget to replace it shortly after owning it.

I think we can all sympathize with the fact that todays laptops do not have enough ports, unless your just checking your email and watching cat videos. I really didn’t want one of those porta-hubs with the 6 inch USB connectors. They are the worst . I had this mini hub dangling from my laptop with wires streaming from it. It looks like someone shot a confetti gun from my usb port. Anyway I began my noble quest for fire… um… I mean a cool stationary dock. There were 100s of choices….. that were hundreds of dollars, so that was a deal breaker since I’m pretty cheap. I started with the Anker 651 USB-C Dock, 8-in-1 Docking Station. It was inexpensive and seemed like it might do the job. Well, it was great in theory, not so much in practice. There was something funky with the hdmi port. I couldn’t get it to work with one laptop and i couldn’t get the hub to power a different laptop. I’m sure it had something to do with my stone aged equipment, but. I didn’t have the time or patience to troubleshoot the dozens of things that could be messing things up. So after I sent it back to the old warehouse in the sky, I spent what seemed like 30 or so minutes of searching…. Give or take 20 minutes, I ran across this little gem. It doesn’t promise to daisy chain 12 monitors, or cause rifts in time and space. It did however, promise to add ports, power your laptop and work with windows and Mac. Guess what??? It did just that. In the grand scheme of things, it’s a product that works. Also, it was reasonably priced( I did mention I’m cheap). So, here’s the deal. The build quality is pretty good. It has a solid power supply (it is an Anker product), and. It works without any fuss. If you like it when things do what they’re supposed to, without paying a small fortune for that privilege , then this is a pretty good bet.