USB-C Hub, 8-in-1 Multiport Ethernet Adapter with 4K@60Hz HDMI Port

Early review on this but first impressions are very good!

This is one of the best USB C hubs I have ever used. I lost my first one after using for 5 years, hence bought it for the second time recently. Built like a tank, reliable whenever you need it to be. Money well spent. Just wait for any sales season rather than paying the full price 😅

After doing a fair bit of research into hubs to give me more flexibility for a desk setup with my MacBook Pro, this came out on top in terms of affordability and functionality. I didn’t want to go down the £400+ route of an all singing thunderbolts 3 dock, but I needed something that would essentially allow me to minimise the number of cables going into the MacBook (to reduce desk clutter) whilst letting me plug in the accessories I use daily. This just about does the job, my only gripe in terms of missing ports was a 3.5mm audio, but with a mini usb to 3.5mm adaptor this can be easily fixed ) or just concede to plugging speakers straight into the Mac still, or go for wireless speakers (where does it end?!) The hub does get warm whilst operating, but this is understandable given that it’s passing power through to both operate whatever devices are plugged in alongside pass through charging if you have a mains adaptor plugged into the power delivery port. I didn’t find the heat excessive though, just don’t use the hub in a tight spot without adequate cooling. Design-wise, the only issue I have (same with all hubs and docks I had researched around this price range & with this form factor) was that the cable could have done with being longer and more flexible, as this proved to be a pain at times when trying to achieve that desk minimalism look. This can be resolved with a usb extension cable however (off you plan to have the hub housed out of sight further away). Finally, the first hub I received seemed to have issues in not powering down when I turned my Mac off, this subsequently kept my connected external drives spinning for no reason (not good!) a few emails to Anker Support though and they happily sent me a replacement no problem. So all in all a good, solid hub for the price, but has its limitations in terms of flexibility and positioning.

Nice and compact. Handles everything I need with spare ports available for SD cards etc. so far very happy with it. Very reasonably priced too.

OK This is perhaps premature, but I have just unboxed this amazing little hub and it's solved my very specific problems: I have a new MacBook Pro and my old USB keyboards were rendered useless (The green caps lock light did not even work). I used everything Apple recommended (and of course they would rather sell me the £179 Magic Keyboard instead) to no avail.The little Anker hub has worked a charm. More importantly (early days, I know) it is not likely to do any harm to the laptop since it does not have an external plug. Simply put: It negotiates connectivity for my old hardware which now seamlessly works on my MacBook. Amazing!

UPDATE: I am updating this review because I've started to encounter strange problems with this hub that my other one doesn't have, and so I've gone back to using that. First, I had to send one back and buy another because the SD card slots wouldn't work. They'd tell me to format any SD or micro SD inserted. The new one sent to me didn't have this issue. Secondly I found that my external drive wouldn't show up when my computer boots, I'd have to unplug and plug it back in for that to work. Third, and most annoyingly, I found that this hub would prevent my laptop (ASUS g14 2024 model) from booting up at all if it had the ethernet adapter plugged in. I went through a lot of troubleshooting and didn't find any very workable solutions. So I've returned to using my previous hub, a 14-in-1 Anker hub with a slower data transfer speed. While that does cap my external drive to 400mbps rather than 900mbps it's capable of, I haven't found that bothers me as much as the problems I'm encountering with this hub do, and having some extra ports is obviously a nice bonus. 1 star may seem harsh, but I can only review it from my own perspective and experience. There's plenty of positive reviews of this from people with no issues with it to keep the universe in balance. I make trailers for video games and I use a powerful laptop to do it. This means I need a lot of space, more than the laptop has in it, and I need fast access to that space. I was using a 4TB Sandisk Extreme Pro eternal USB C SSD, which advertises at up 2000mbps read speeds, but measures at around 900mbps read speeds when plugged directly into my laptop's USB C port. This is a fraction of the speed of my internal storage but more than fast enough for my work. Unfortunately I used to use this in conjunction with a different Anker branded USB hub with more ports (Anker Laptop Docking Station, 14 in 1 USB C Hub), and found that with the Sandisk SSD plugged into that, it measured at 400mps in speed. Still reasonably fast, but cut in half from what it is when plugged directly in. When using this Anker 555, however, the Sandisk SSD reads at around 900mbps again, not at all reduced from how it is when plugged directly in, and all while also managing multiple USB devices, an SD card and an ethernet connection. I miss having a couple of extra USB ports, but I'm much happier to have the full speed of the SSD back.

Cable was a bit short

Works as intended. Bought it because I lost my hub during a recent travel. Glad to say this works well, especially the HDMI port which is my main use for it.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sehr praktischer USB-C-Hub. Er ist kompakt, gut verarbeitet und bietet mehrere Anschlüsse, sodass man verschiedene Geräte gleichzeitig anschließen kann. Besonders praktisch finde ich, dass er wenig Platz braucht und sich einfach mitnehmen lässt. Für den Alltag und unterwegs eine sehr gute Lösung. Ich bin zufrieden mit dem Kauf und würde ihn weiterempfehlen.

Dysk podłączony przez usb-c nie jest rozpoznawany w komputerze , monitor podłączony przez usb-c także. Power deliwery nie działa. leci reklamacja.

Works well, feels like good quality - I needed this specific one because apparently it was one of the only ports I could use to hook up a Spyder colour calibration tool to calibrate my external monitor with my macbook pro - anyway it worked and did what I needed.

The Anker 533 is a great hub not only because the usb-a and usb-c ports are 10Gbps which is kinda rare.

Opinión sobre Anker 555 Hub USB-C 8 en 1 Muy buen hub, práctico y de excelente calidad. Tiene todos los puertos que necesito para conectar el MacBook a diferentes dispositivos, además de ofrecer una transferencia de datos rápida y una salida HDMI 4K a 60 Hz. Es compacto, sólido y funciona perfectamente. Muy recomendable para quienes necesitan ampliar las conexiones de su portátil. Solo que se calienta un poco pero es normal por la velocidad