Looking for USB hub

Hi
I've been looking around for a decent USB 2.0 hub, one that gives at least 3-4 additional ports, but all I find are fancy looking ones that cost upwards of $30. Is that the standard for USB hubs, or are there some cheaper ones someone could point me to?
Thanks.
eMac Mac OS X (10.3.7)

Richard Habiniak,
US$30 for a quality self-powered USB 2.0 4-port hub sounds about right to me. Keep in mind that you don't necessarily want the cheapest hub you can find. Bus-powered and/or cheaply made / poorly shielded hubs can cause USB signal reflection problems, typically spurious wake-from-sleep signals but also general USB signal degradation and noise.
Also, watch out for really cheap USB data cables --- cheap thin cables are prone to the wires breaking and are poorly shielded to where you can almost expect serious line noise crosscoupling into the cables, which can lead to the computer locking up. (Happened to me with a cheap media card reader --- the thin cheap USB cable included turned out to be why a Mac running OS 9.2.2 would lock up randomly. The fix was a better quality USB data cable that as I remember it cost about as much as the card reader did.)

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