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You're Using USB Hubs Wrong - Here's How

The purposes of a USB hub are to both turn a single USB port on your PC into several, as well as help to organize all of your USB-connected devices around a convenient, singular point. When a USB hub ...
Ars Technica

Does splitting a USB cable in the naive way work?

I'm trying to build a USB dongle into a keyboard. Would it work to just splice the wires together, or do USB hubs do some sort of extra magic to allow multiple devices share a single port? I've done ...