Anker Laptop Docking Station, 13-in-1 USB C Docking Station, Triple Display

I have had no issues running this with my work laptop HP Laptop running Windows 10 and my Dell Inspiron 17 running Ubuntu 20.10/Windows 10. Both laptops charge, and all ports seem to work well. In general, the worst part of the USB-C format is the confusing amount of different laptops that seem to implement it in different ways. Not this product's fault; as I said, it works well with Dell and HP while my HP Laptop dock runs with both laptops, but under Ubuntu or Windows 10 on my Dell, it falls short. The HP Dock is a Thunderbolt dock, and my Dell is a Display port marked with a DP; the DP Port on my Dell does charge and allows all ports to work with this dock. I mention it because USB-C gets confusing, and mileage may vary depending on the laptop itself. My Hp is marked as Thunderbolt, and my Dell as Display Port, and this product runs wonderfully with both. I found I could get a 4k Display using the DP port on the back of the dock in Ubuntu, but I found it a little problem some and instead switched to using the two HDMI ports instead. Sometimes 4k would flicker, but that can be my older KVM Switch (1080P KVM). I don't mind the two 1080p screens as the dock makes it so easy to switch computers. I wonder why the HDMI port only seems to pump out 1080P and the display port 4k from my experience. Still, my HP dock didn't do 4k at all, so this dock outperformed it. I have even booted my Dell and HP Laptops with a live USB of MX Linux, and with no configuration, it worked. I just changed the display settings a bit. So to sum it up. 1) Easy to use - NO Drivers to install! 2) Works across Windows and Linux. 3) Affordable and better than my work HP Thunderbolt dock. 4) Works with USB-C marked PD or Thunderbolt. Finally, I would like to say the PD port can get confusing another port format for USB-C. At first, I thought it did not work as I plugged in USB-C devices, and it was not recognized. Then I upgraded to a new Samsung phone with USB-C PD charging support, and it charged and was recognized from the PD port on the dock. So the device has to support USB-C PD. As I said, USB-C is confusing. Now, what are you waiting for? Buy this best Dock on Amazon; it is excellent for Windows and, more importantly, great with Linux. If you have Thunderbolt, the big thing you get from a Thunderbolt dock is the quicker data transfer speeds, but you need to know your laptop supports it. For me, I don't care about my work laptop having maximum data transfer speed. As I said, Thunderbolt does work with this also from what I can tell. 1/26/2024 - I am updating this because I also wanted to note that this works great with the Surface Pro 7. The only exception is the built in wired network does not seem to get recognized, but I don't care. I am using WIFI anyway. So Sound, video, and all other devices work perfectly.

With this dock I can connect my laptop with a single cable to connect to a second monitor, ethernet, and power. It also has additional USB ports and an SD card reader, but I personally don't use any of those. Overall, it's super convenient. It's even better if you add a magnetic USB-C adapter, just make sure to get one that supports both high speed data and high power charging. I got a right-angle 240W+40Gb/s connector from Magtame (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CWGHXVFK), and it works great with this dock. My one complaint with this dock is that every now and then, video out doesn't work. My laptop says it can see the monitor, but my monitor doesn't see the laptop. When this has happened, disconnecting my laptop, turning the dock off and then on again, and then reconnecting my laptop fixes the issue. It's only happened 5 or 6 times, and I have used the dock hundreds of times. (On a typical day I connect my laptop to the dock 2 or 3 times, and I've had it for almost a year and a half.) Overall, it's a huge timesaver.

**UPDATE** Now my rear USB port has died--the only one of two standard ports that didn't hiccup and glitch. This thing worked FAIR (front USB port always glitchy) for about a year and a half--MINUS any Mac capacities--and now is essentially an aftermarket power brick. The combination of misrepresented functionality (no Mac support despite showing Mac use), faulty design (front USB unreliable, irregular power supply to dual monitors), and poor reliability (multiple ports and functions dead within 18 months) have serious undermined my former respect for this brand. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT. (ORIGINAL REVIEW:) Disappointing. First, it was not clear to me when I purchased this that it would not allow me to extend screens from my MacBook. There is now a slide that shows that all Mac screens will be identical. It’s possible I missed that a year and a half ago at purchase, but I think I would have noticed. In any case, claiming this is Mac compatible is inane. I don’t know anyone who purchases a docking hub so they can see 3+ screens of the SAME THING. Mac users, beware. I was willing to attribute that to careless comparisons on my part—partly based on a very high opinion of Anker in general. BUT unfortunately the problems do not end there. Though there are two standard USB ports, the way in which this device is wired makes it difficult to use them. If I place my keyboard dongle in the front USB port, and insert a flash drive into the USB-C port next to it, there is suddenly an irregular lag to my mouse movements. I cannot work all day with my mouse lagging. Of course I can move the dongle to the rear of the unit, but now my printer cable is projecting from the front and that’s the whole point of having rear USB ports. In short, why design the ports in a way that they interfere with each other? ANOTHER ISSUE is flickering in my monitor screen sometimes. I looked online and the only solution I found is turning down the refresh rate because “60 Hz on each screen is a lot for the hub to handle”. I thought 60 Hz was pretty much standard so again I’m not sure why a device would be advertised as handling up to three screens if two was going to tax it. This problem also seems intermittent but it ought to happen never. LASTLY, just this past week, the device suddenly can no longer extend more than one screen on my Windows work computer. I’ve tried two computers and multiple cables but whatever I do Windows will not recognize that I have two monitors attached and allow me to extend them. Both monitors are actually live and connected but show the same image, so somehow the hub has lost the ability to differentiate between them. Now the hub is useless. I have disconnected my second monitor from the hub and connected it directly to my laptop. I have actually moved my keyboard/mouse dongle and attached it directly to the laptop as well. This removes all purpose for having a hub at all. And again, this is for my Windows work computer—my MacBook has all these issues but would not extend screens even when the hub was fully functional. I bought this because I had faith in the Anker brand and because it was slightly less expensive than the hub Apple promoted on its website. I regret this purchase. Now I have a $150 hub that combines only two of the five cable connections I connect and disconnect every time I move my computer from work to home. Very, very disappointed. Pay more to get a better and more reliable product.

I wanted to get rid of my desktop and just use a laptop. I'm used to using a desktop at home and wanted to keep using my external keyboard, mouse, and two large monitors when I'm home. I bought an Asus laptop that is fast and has lots of storage. With this docking station, it works perfectly for me. I keep the monitors, keyboard, and mouse plugged into the Anker docking station. I have one USB-C cable that connects to my laptop. This one cable charges the laptop and connects it -- via the docking station -- to the monitors, keyboard, and mouse. When I travel, I unplug the one USB-C cable and I'm ready to go. When I return, I plug in the one USB-C cable, turn on my docking station and monitors, and I'm up and running as a desktop. I tried a cheaper docking station (LIONWEI USB C Hub) first. It mostly worked but required two USB-C cables (one to charge the laptop, one to connect to the docking station) and it was not stable. It would often glitch out and require me to reconnect or reboot. The Anker docking station has been very solid and, in 4 months has never glitched out or required any type of rebooting. Pro tip: I also use an "aucun Magnetic USB C Adapter" for the USB cable. This connects via a magnet so I don't even have to plug and unplug the USB cable, I just pull off the magnet.

Original 2 star review: I don't have a lot of experience with docking stations like this, outside of the ones I've used with my work laptops. But this one has generally been a disappointment. My keyboard regularly has problems when I switch computers or even turn off the docking station and turn it back on. It's 50/50 whether it will turn on my keyboard, or my keyboard will detect it, or it will detect my keyboard, whatever. I often have to mess with it for a second to get everything to work. But today it seems to have given up on my keyboard for good. No USB port on this unit will detect my keyboard. I plug it directly into the computer, and it's fine, back to the docking station, nothing. I have Kinesis Freestyle RGB keyboard. UPDATE: Anker reached out to me and sent a replacement and this one does seem to work better with my keyboard. I have not had the issue mentioned above in the week or so that I’ve been using it.

when i bought this hub i had a couple of problems with the hub right out of the box. i was busy fixing other things on other machines and missed the Amazon exchange window and reached out to Anker via their email providing them with a description of the problem, it was dropping a monitor and eventually was cycling my ethernet off and on constantly. their customer service returned my email on the same day and flawlessly provided me with things to check and eventually sent me a new device and a shipping label for the bad one. just hooked up the new hub and it's running like a new buick. this is my second all i one hub i bought from Anker and i will continue to buy their products in the future for the quality of their products and that of their customer service. Thank you Anker!

FINALLY! I have a lenovo laptop for work. I have a different lenovo laptop for personal use. My old dock was a thunderbolt 3 and with the latest teams update on my work laptop my audio would cut out when I could screen share on teams. I also noticed suddenly the keyboard and mouse got wonky on registering activity. well turns out my old doc was just dying. that's all there was to it. so I bought an expensive $$$$$ lenovo universal dock. and then all of a sudden the 2nd monitor would not display no matter WHICH laptop was plugged in. Updated drivers. Updated firmware. Power cycled. Nope. Returned. Bought another off brand dock. Monitor would work with my personal lenovo laptop but not with my work laptop. WTF am I going insane here? What happened to plug and play. Returned. Bought another off brand and now the speakerphone for conference didn't work. Bought a new conference speaker phone (which I was going to do anyways) but it still didn't work and it wouldn't charge if I hot plugged in. Returned. Bought this dock. FINALLY EVERYTHING WORKS! NO ONE BREATHE! Although admittedly now the SD card is stuck in the SD card slot.. and I fear I may need a pair of pliers later to resolve that issue.. so maybe the SD slot is not okay. It's 135w power supply that comes with the dock (nice for the price!) the USB Ports all work and there is one on the front for your keyboard/mouse - the rest are on the back. it's quiet. Anker is good about not having whining USB ports. So if you're one of those that thinks you have tenitus all the time because your electronics whine... you'll appreciate that their USB ports do not. HDMI port works!!!!!! So if you're using an old school cheap a$$ monitor that doesn't have Display Port Tech, you're good still. Power button is a nice touch because now you can power off the dock which will turn the external display off and any additional devices that have lights will turn off also.. so if you're home office is in your bedroom, this is a value add for you. It is compact enough to travel with but it's more block or brick style than slim pocket style. Rubber slip pad on the bottom is a nice touch to keep the power cord from pulling it off the back of your desk when you're not looking. Ethernet port also works Oh and my USB Hub extension that's plugged into the dock also seems to be working just fine although it has it's own external power supply so if you're daisy chaining just keep in mind you may need more than one power supply here.

I have two different laptops that I tried this with: one is a five year old high-end gaming laptop (which does have a Thunderbolt 3 port) and the other is a brand new small productivity laptop (which can even charge from its TB3 port). I wanted to replace my old Pluggable USB 3 docking station with one that could handle all three of my monitors natively (I had to plug one of them directly into my laptop, which meant extra cables to juggle when docking and undocking) as well as hopefully one that didn't use DisplayLink drivers (I've had a lot of issues over the years that always seem to go back to those drivers). The set up was a breeze: just plug everything in, and you just need to run one cable to your laptop (two for my old one, with its need to get power separately). No driver install, it just plug and played on both machines just fine (ish...I'll get to that in a second). Initially, I only had two monitors attached to the dock as my monitors all have HDMI ports but no DisplayPort...erm, ports...honestly, who names these things anyway?! Sorry, off topic...anyway, I didn't have an HDMI to DP cable so I had to order that separately, and while I waited I hooked my third monitor directly to my laptop as I always have. Everything was working great, other than that extra cable that I was hoping to eliminate. Then the cable came in and I plugged it in, and, well...that's when everything went south. My new laptop will NOT show all three monitors at native resolution, no matter what I try. The third one is always a SUPER low resolution, some odd number like 753x642 or something like that. That's the best I can get out of it. If I disconnect one of the other two monitors, that low res monitor will start displaying perfectly, so its not an issue with the cable or the monitor. With my old laptop, I can get better results, if I don't mind fighting with it every time I hook it up, wake it up, or reboot. Frequently, it only displays two of the three monitors initially (two of them take turns being the one to not come up at all), but the computer thinks the display is just fine, as it shows up correctly in displays. Disconnecting and re-extending to that monitor from displays usually fixes that issue. Other times, the system doesn't see one or two of the displays at all, or displays one at the super low resolution issue the other laptop has, and I'll have to power cycle the hub. This usually takes several tries, with my record so far being seven recycles before it comes up correctly on all three monitors. But...even that's not quite right. All three of my monitors are the same brand and model, all operate at 1920x1080@59hz (or 60hz, though Windows likes to default it to 59 so I just leave it there as it doesn't cause any issues). But when all three are active through the dock, two of them switch from 59hz to 29hz interlaced. This comes across some of the time as just like a mild, almost imperceptible flicker, but as soon as you put anything with text on it, the text gets harder to read, and anything with lines (especially high contrast horizontal lines) becomes downright painful to look at. Nothing I can do will convince Windows that it can drive those monitors at 59/60hz, even though Anker says it's capable of driving three monitors at that refresh rate. So I called Anker for support, and they suggested I try re-installing my DisplayLink drivers to see if that would help (it didn't change anything on either machine), and if that didn't work, to get a replacement through Amazon (which behaves identically to the first one). At this point, this dock is pretty much useless to me as the only viable good solution is to use it to drive two monitors instead of three, and I have no intention of going back down to two again. So, long story short, if you're looking for a dual monitor Thunderbolt 3 dock, this seems to be pretty decent for that. Maybe my issues are with my laptops, but at this point, I cannot recommend this dock for driving three monitors, which is the exact scenario I bought it for.

No funciona al 100%, no es compatible con mi PC de HP, no funciona para el Monitor, todo lo demás como teclados externos, micrófono funciona bien, pero lo principal que es la conexión entre laptop y monitor no funciona bien.

Good quality, fast and powerful for my laptop. As they say you get what you pay for It would be awesome if it had 1 extra USB or USB-C, but that is just for my specific use. However in general it works great, no issues and replaces my laptop charger (meaning powerful enough to charge of the latest Asus laptops, and all the other devices connected to it

This is for the "Anker Docking Station, PowerExpand 13-in-1 USB-C Dock, 85W Charging for Laptop" ** Update March 9th, 2023 ** So pretty much everything in the original review stands, but there is one issue that I touched on originally about the display refresh rate and resolution that I can clarify now. To get the resolution how you want it, you need to set the monitors to the same refresh rate first, then once the resolution is set and applied, change the refresh rate. That being said, I'm not sure if the refresh rate actually changes or if it just says it does. ** End of update ** So I just got this about an hour ago, and everything just worked! Both in Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 10. Here's my setup. Everything is plugged into the dock and only the single USB-C dock cable is plugged into the laptop. Laptop: Dell XPS 13 9370 1TB SanDisk USB-C SSD (for booting into Ubuntu) 2x Monitors + laptop monitor (One monitor is Ultra Wide 2560x1080 144Hz, other is 1080p 60Hz) - Note: I'm using one DP port and one HDMI port Wireless keyboard/mouse Speakers Ethernet connection for Internet First of all, I was using a Dell TB16 dock before this but I had multiple issues with it. Long story short, I don't recommend the Dell docks, especially if you use Linux. ** Long story about Dell TB16 Dock ** Using the Dell dock, my monitor would randomly go out, and the network only connected at 100mbps, the soundcard is super quiet (even at max volume), it's always on and can get noisy when it heats up (it has a fan), the cable is built into the unit (non-replaceable) and is only about a foot and a half long (coming out of the left side of the unit) and the unit itself is rather large. Also, I boot off a USB-C SSD drive for Linux (which allows me to plug the USB SSD into almost any computer and boot into my Ubuntu OS); For whatever reason, I could never get it to show up as a boot option when plugged into the dock, even with ThunderBolt boot support and pre-module stuff enabled. ** End of the Long story about Dell TB16 Dock ** Now the Anker dock on the other hand is about a 1/4 of the size of the Dell dock, connects @ 1GB with no problem, allows me to boot off my USB-C SSD, has a power button to turn it off when not in use, it's silent, works without having to install any drivers on either Windows or Ubuntu, comes with a decently long USB-C cable (3 ft?) to plug into the computer (which can also be replaced and yes it charges my laptop too) and the sound volume is great. There is one oddity that happened, but I was able to fix it easily enough and it's likely not a problem with the dock but a software issue in Ubuntu. When changing the resolution + refresh rate in Ubuntu, it didn't properly scale the resolution (the resolution was right, but much of it was cut off or shrunk down as if the monitor itself didn't change resolutions but the computer did), I had to change the resolution + refresh rate to something else, then to what I wanted to make it work. To be clear, it worked when I plugged it in initially, but changing it to my preference required multiple changes to set it in properly. Once set, it worked as normal. I highly recommend this dock!

1 Star I was very happy with this docking station when I first purchased it. It worked well for several months, charging my laptop and running my dual-monitor setup without any issues. Unfortunately, the dock developed what appears to be an internal hardware failure while still under warranty. It stopped charging my laptop properly, and my monitors constantly disconnected and reconnected. To rule out every other possibility, I purchased an Anker Prime 14-in-1 Docking Station using the exact same laptop, monitors, cables, and power outlet. The new dock worked perfectly immediately, confirming that the original 13-in-1 dock was defective. What turned this into a one-star review was not the product failure itself. Electronics can fail. It was the warranty experience. I have spent over a week providing proof of purchase, completing troubleshooting, answering repeated requests, and following up multiple times. The process has been slow, confusing, and frustrating, with incomplete return instructions and unnecessary delays. I expected Anker to stand behind its warranty. Instead, I have had to escalate my case and file a Better Business Bureau complaint in an effort to have my warranty honored. Based on my experience, I cannot recommend this product. A good warranty experience is just as important as a good product, and unfortunately Anker has fallen well short of my expectations.

I've had this dock for almost a year now (a year this month). As with all the WFH situation, it was purchased for that scenario and did it's purpose. Though it did get hot, the functionality was still there and I had no complaints. A few weeks ago, as per my morning usual, I roll out of bed and log onto work, except I noticed nothing was on. The dock was powered off (which I never power off). Any attempts to power it back on was futile. I even disassembled it from my work setup to try another outlet, different host device, etc and nothing. What I did notice was that it when it was plugged in, it was emitting this high pitch sound. Yeah, it sounded dead. After mulling around a bit, I decided to reach out to Anker. I thought maybe it wouldn't go anywhere .. but seeing how I paid a hefty price for this, I wouldn't expect it to die within a year. Anker supper was amazing. After supplying the proof of purchase and proof of the defect (It turned out it was the power supply that gave out), they asked me to ship it back to them and refunded me the shipping cost. Once I did, a new one was dispatched and I received it today. Looks like a different power supply as well compared to the previous. I quickly hooked everything up and everything appears to work fine. I hope this one lasts longer! Everything was done quick and efficiently with no hassles. I appreciate the customer service, 5 stars for that.