What are Port Replicators?
Port replicators are handy devices that allow you to connect a laptop or notebook computer to peripherals like a printer, monitor, keyboard, or scanner quickly and easily. The key functionality of port replicators is their ability to connect portable PCs and peripherals via serial, parallel, or USB ports. Port replicators come in handy for people who use their portable computers both at the office and at home. These computer users can connect that laptop to the port replicator along with the printer, monitor, keyboard, or scanner. The result is instant home office setup without a tangle of wires in the process. Laptop users who want to connect their laptops to larger monitors or keyboards than the ones that come standard on their laptops will find this functionality attractive. Port replicators also provide for connection to more than one device at a time. Laptops might have just two USB ports or a single serial port; port replicators, on the other hand, commonly feature a handful of e
