[quiklee]

So this is what i'm trying to do

Connect my Maxtor and Western Digital External Hard Drives to my Netgear Hub to my New Apple Extreme

i've connected both drives separately and they work fine, but when i try to hook it up through a hub, I can' mount the drives through the network

does anyone know what the problem and if so, can you please help?

[mduell]

Is the hub powered? If not, I'd try a powered hub.

[toddtmw]

I have seven drives connected through a Belkin hub. It works great. Speed isn't as fast as if it were directly connected, but it's not terrible. Wired speeds are in the 5.5-6 MegaBYTE range. This is about half what I would expect, but makes up for it in the convenience factor. Wireless regularly hits 2.5-3 Megabyte, which is better than the 1 I used to get with G. (I can see 11 access points from my dining room, I'm thinking most of my speed improvement comes from running N-only in the 5 GHz range where no one else is playing...yet.)

Since the drives work individually, I'd suggest trying a new hub. I had an off-brand hub in place first and it worked, but it kept "dying". (The lights would all go out and I'd have to unplug the power and the upstream USB port to get it to reset.)

Defnitely recommend a powered hub too...

[solofx7]

what USB hub would you reccoemend?
mine is doing the same thing.
it will see the drive, but it will not see anything while it is plugged though a USB hub.

[quiklee]

thanks . . got it working . . got the belkin hub and both the WD and Maxtor drives load nicely now . . . now it's time to get more drives! muhahahha

[ghporter]

Can we assume that the Belkin hub you got is powered? If not, what was the fix?