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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6231814" data-attributes="member: 8835">Gotcha.  Seeing your from Finland, that adds more context.  Translation nuances.This won't solve yer problem, but is hopefully educational or slightly interesting:Technically, I'd reserve usage of the term splitter for really primitive electrical branches.  So an adapter to get 3 power outlets from one is a splitter.  A T coupler for co-axial cable is a splitter.  In both cases, it's just copper lines running from the source jack to the output jacks.A hub implies a bit more wiring (and cross-wiring so the input lines lead to somebody's output lines, etc).That's probably the key point right there.  In a co-ax splitter, the center copper line is solid through all 3 ends.  The outer shell line is the same.In a hub, there are multiple lines per jack, and some of those lines are power, some are incoming, some are outgoing signal lines.  The outgoing signal line from port 1 has to lead to the incoming signal line on port 2.  Otherwise it'd be like expecting to listen to the moutpiece on a telephone.Technically, a telephone splitter qualifies under this pattern of being defined a hub, so there might be more human whim on what differentiates a device for either term.</blockquote>