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Belkin Network USB Hub - Device server - 5 ports - Ethernet, USB, Fast Ethernet
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
I bought this in preference to a NAS drive as I already had two usb hard disks.
The unit works very well with my windows xp pcs although It's write speed is very slow. Ok for normal use but I like to keep weekly copies of all my files but find that making a duplicate copy of 'my documents' folde now takes hours rather than minutes.
Everything I've tried connected via the hub have worked except for my old parallel port printer (via a lpt to usb cable) which appears in the control panel but wont accept proint jobs.
However, the unit doesn't work at all with my vista pc. I can connect to a device but within 30 seconds or so it stops responding and windows explorer crashes. I have searched the internet for a solution and tried everything from upgrading the firmware, to disabling automatic powering down of usb ports, to using an alternative to the supplied control software. Nothing has worked.
The unit is completely unusable with Vista. I wish I had discovered this sooner as it is now too late to return it.
The unit works very well with my windows xp pcs although It's write speed is very slow. Ok for normal use but I like to keep weekly copies of all my files but find that making a duplicate copy of 'my documents' folde now takes hours rather than minutes.
Everything I've tried connected via the hub have worked except for my old parallel port printer (via a lpt to usb cable) which appears in the control panel but wont accept proint jobs.
However, the unit doesn't work at all with my vista pc. I can connect to a device but within 30 seconds or so it stops responding and windows explorer crashes. I have searched the internet for a solution and tried everything from upgrading the firmware, to disabling automatic powering down of usb ports, to using an alternative to the supplied control software. Nothing has worked.
The unit is completely unusable with Vista. I wish I had discovered this sooner as it is now too late to return it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
The Belkin USB Network reader is an affordable print server and Network USB hub. I found it particularly simple to set-up with simple instructions inside, and within minutes I had managed a test print page. I expected to find my printer quick keys (physically on the printer) to fail to work or find the laptop, but as long as a laptop is connected it all works auto-scan, auto-OCR and alike (with my spec, see below).
**Pro's**
- Simple set-up
- Works with both machines Windows (XP, SP2) and Mac (OSX 10.5)
- Works with all functions of my multi function printer (HP F4100)
- Does pretty much what it says, and fortunately works great with my equiptment
- I haven't been able to make it screw up..I've done scans, prints, OCR scans, backups and all sorts but it's yet to go wrong or complain^^! (this excludes my attempts to connect more than one user)
**Con's**
- Only one user may be connected to the hub at any one time, otherwise you have to wait for the other user to disconnect
- I found when I connected to the hub on the PC it opened the root folder of every USB drive connected in Windows Explorer, which was irritating after a while. I had three drive so when my machine booted it opened three explorer windows. I didn't find a disable option for it either in the software preferences or a fix online. I eventually solved this by disabling the software from running at boot, but had to teach my spouse to open the software before sending documents to the printer.
- You have to use their software to connect to the hub. I thought I would be able to connect any device and just send printer files..I was mistaken!
**Verdict**
The Belkin USB Network hub it a tidy little home network solution. We have two laptops in the house and not much space, so getting rid of the bulky desk where we used to keep all the computer gear and tucking the printer, router and other computer related items onto a book shelf was a real bonus for us. Now we don't have to trail cables across the room and can access our files whenever we need them! However you might not find this very practical for many users due to the single user access, but pretty good for tidying things away at home.
^^In fairness when printing from the PC then connecting the Mac without rebooting the printer there was a problem. However I found this when directly connecting the printer to both machines without the hub, so more likely it's a driver issue.
**Pro's**
- Simple set-up
- Works with both machines Windows (XP, SP2) and Mac (OSX 10.5)
- Works with all functions of my multi function printer (HP F4100)
- Does pretty much what it says, and fortunately works great with my equiptment
- I haven't been able to make it screw up..I've done scans, prints, OCR scans, backups and all sorts but it's yet to go wrong or complain^^! (this excludes my attempts to connect more than one user)
**Con's**
- Only one user may be connected to the hub at any one time, otherwise you have to wait for the other user to disconnect
- I found when I connected to the hub on the PC it opened the root folder of every USB drive connected in Windows Explorer, which was irritating after a while. I had three drive so when my machine booted it opened three explorer windows. I didn't find a disable option for it either in the software preferences or a fix online. I eventually solved this by disabling the software from running at boot, but had to teach my spouse to open the software before sending documents to the printer.
- You have to use their software to connect to the hub. I thought I would be able to connect any device and just send printer files..I was mistaken!
**Verdict**
The Belkin USB Network hub it a tidy little home network solution. We have two laptops in the house and not much space, so getting rid of the bulky desk where we used to keep all the computer gear and tucking the printer, router and other computer related items onto a book shelf was a real bonus for us. Now we don't have to trail cables across the room and can access our files whenever we need them! However you might not find this very practical for many users due to the single user access, but pretty good for tidying things away at home.
^^In fairness when printing from the PC then connecting the Mac without rebooting the printer there was a problem. However I found this when directly connecting the printer to both machines without the hub, so more likely it's a driver issue.
Amazon Verified Purchase
I have some servers in my garage that are protected by an APC Smart-UPS 1500. This has a USB console port. I wanted to be able to monitor the UPS remotely from my desktop over the network. This device allows me to do just that by effectively putting the UPS's USB port on the network.
Only slight drawback is that the belkin Hub Control Center needs to be active in a logged on session. It might be possible to turn this into a Windows Service but haven't looked into it.
Pleased with the unit and reliably starts everytime.
Only slight drawback is that the belkin Hub Control Center needs to be active in a logged on session. It might be possible to turn this into a Windows Service but haven't looked into it.
Pleased with the unit and reliably starts everytime.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Not a true 'server'
This product although has it's uses is not a device 'server' as the product description would suggest. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. I. Pozella
Excellent product
I was going to buy a wireless printer but found out about this and find it really useful and can connect lots of different ports to it. Read more
Published 9 months ago by AMD
Really good but can glitch
Have had this awhile now and must say that it is the easiest thing to set up and get going.
It's pretty and allows me to share printer, scanner & USB drives between machines... Read more
It's pretty and allows me to share printer, scanner & USB drives between machines... Read more
Published 16 months ago by WiserThanOwl
Works fine
I have this working on Windows 7 and XP Sp3. Not had any issues so far.
Published on 18 Feb 2010 by Mike May
does not work
I have 2 laptops 1 vista and 1 xp sp3 it works fine on the vista but does not work on the xp sp3 there is nothing on the box or website that says it will not work with sp3 and i... Read more
Published on 21 Sep 2009 by Mike Clark
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