What is the crowd's opinion of Sitecom CN-385 Interface hub USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) Type-C 5000 Mbit/s Aluminium, Black?

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You basically need a USB-C hub with passthru power. The hub plugs into the laptop, the power brick into the hub (passthru port), and the monitor's upstream data connection into one of the USB data ports on the hub.

Such hubs are quite common if your monitors upstream connection is USB-A, so you can go that route and just use a dongle/cable to go from C->A if you want. There are USB-C hubs with multiple C data ports, but they're extremely uncommon, and I don't believe I've seen one with passthru power.

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The principal problem with what constitutes your ideal dongle/hub/dock is that the Ethernet port itself is physically larger than HDMI, unless the manufacturer makes a part of the port collapsible to reduce the port's z-height when not in-use. If the hub/dock is thick enough to accommodate the standard fixed-size Ethernet port, it's more than thick enough to include video-out ports.

If you don't want HDMI or other video-out, most of the time you have to also drop Ethernet, at which point you're reduced to simple USB hubs, often without any Power Delivery input. This also means the hub/dock's usefulness is dictated directly by how much power it can draw from the USB-C port on your Razer Blade 2020 Base. Example products below:

• Sitecom CN-385 - no USB-A, Ethernet, card reader, PD input
• Juiced Systems QuadHUB (or similar brands) - no Ethernet, card reader, PD input
• QGeeM Ultra-slim USB 3.0 Hub - no USB-C, Ethernet, PD input
• HOGORE 4-Port SuperSpeed Powered USB C Hub - no Ethernet, card reader, PD input; comes with wall power adapter for the hub itself
• Rocketek 5 Port Aluminum USB 3.1 Gen 2 10Gbps Hub - no Ethernet, PD input

USB-C to Ethernet adapters are easy to find, however at this point you'd be best served with 2.5/5:

• Plugable 2.5 - fixed USB-C cable with A-to-C(female) adapter
• Sabrent 2.5 - fixed USB-A cable with C-to-A adapter
• QNAP QNA-UC5G1T 5 - removable A-C cable included, also works C-C
• Sabrent NT-SS5G 5 - removable A-C and C-C cables included

I don't own/use any of the above linked products.

https://www.amazon.com/Sitecom-CN-385-USB-C-Female-Ports/dp/B07YN54Q33/

If it were easy, there would be lots available.

Sitecom CN-385 is one, apparently.

https://www.sitecom.com/en/usb-c-hub-4-port/cn-385/p/1879

There are mixed reviews on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Sitecom-CN-385-USB-C-Female-Ports/dp/B07YN54Q33

Similar, likely older, version to first link: https://www.amazon.com/Sitecom-CN-385-USB-C-Female-Ports/dp/B07YN54Q33/

https://www.amazon.it/Sitecom-CN-385-USB-C-Maschio-Female/dp/B07YN54Q33/

https://www.amazon.com/Sitecom-CN-385-USB-C-Female-Ports/dp/B07YN54Q33/ref=asc_df_B07YN54Q33

This one lists some Pixelbooks under its compatibility section.

Something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/Sitecom-CN-385-USB-C-Female-Ports/dp/B07YN54Q33

Like https://www.amazon.com/Sitecom-CN-385-USB-C-Female-Ports/dp/B07YN54Q33?

Look at https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/10-usb-c-hubs-with-2-or-more-usb-c-downstream-ports/ by u/SurfaceDockGuy for more.

/u/surfacedockguy has a list of these: https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/10-usb-c-hubs-with-2-or-more-usb-c-downstream-ports/

The Sitecom CN-385 and CN-386 are the only 4 port ALL Type C Hubs that are reasonably priced.

https://www.amazon.com/Sitecom-CN-385-USB-C-Female-Ports/dp/B07YN54Q33/

https://www.amazon.com/Sitecom-CN-386-USB-C-Female-Delivery/dp/B07YN56F9T/

There are USB type C to USB type C hubs, less likely to see them in stores because most people are still using USB type A to USB type C cables for their devices.

https://www.amazon.com/Sitecom-CN-385-USB-C-Female-Ports/dp/B07YN54Q33/

That better than the sitecom one? https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07YN54Q33/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_GR4S1SKHTQPC804KMGS8

Going to use this USB-C hub with it. No other hub has what I need except that one so to be able to use the dock I need a USB-C to MicroUSB cable to go with it.

After some more digging, Thunderbolt 4 seems to be where the progress is being made. OWC has a Thunderbolt hub for preorder for $150 that mentions your specific generation of Mac. Sitecom has a bus-powered USB-C hub for ~$50 that ships from the UK. You’d still need your monitor plugged directly into the laptop since the hub can’t support the bandwidth of a monitor. If you only plug your power cable and webcam into the hub, (and your webcam isn’t more than 5Gbps), then it might work, but I’d still highly recommend using short thunderbolt cables wherever possible for your best chances

Something like this is probably your best bet.

Disclaimer, I have not used this myself but just found it on a search.

https://www.amazon.com/Sitecom-CN-385-USB-C-Female-Ports/dp/B07YN54Q33/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=cn385&qid=1601126379&sr=8-1

There are literally just two that I'm finding. There's the CN385 and the CN386. Do you know of any alternate options? I'm not sure I'm $80 committed to this unless it's really the only option. I think it's interesting that there are so few.

$42, only 1.5 A?! Power: https://amazon.com/dp/B07YN54Q33/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_btf_t1_vKpvFbWGBKBN4