Belkin 5-Port Wireless Network USB Hub

Gain wireless access to USB printers, media readers, external hard drives and more using your existing wireless network. Share up to 5 devices including multifunction printers, media readers, digital cameras and scanners on your network. Back up and access data from networked attached storage devices.

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• Reviewed by: linlu00

  12-11-08

  Duration of ownership: 8 Months

  Strengths: Reliable, works with devices I have tried so far (printer, WD Mybook USB drive, Mouse)

  Weaknesses:Doesn't work with ActivCard (smartcard) readers. Must manually reconnect devices when resuming from sleep/hibernate or standby.

  Overall Evaluation: I have been able to use this successfully with notebooks that have Trend Micro firewalls installed. You need to read the technote to open the ports (19540 iirc) for this device in your profile. Belkin does have a good technote about how to get this device to work with various personal firewalls (Norton, Trend Micro, Zone Alarm, Microsoft and one other). I have a used a Western Digital USB drive attached to this due to lack of USB ports on a notebook, and although slow the performance didn't seem to be too much slower than if the drive was directly attached. I have also used this quite successfully with a Microsoft wireless mouse (due to lack of USB ports). I did not disable the track pad in the BIOS since I need to be able to reconnect devices after resuming from sleep or standby mode. I could probably do that with the keyboard, but I haven't tried. I also use this to scan across the network on an Epson 9400CX Multifunction that is only designed for local USB usage. It works great for that. The only glitch with this happened when I upgraded from Trend Internet Security Pro 2008 to 2009 a few days ago - it sometimes drops the connection to the Epson when scanning. Which points to the fault being with TIS Pro 2009. To fix the drop, I disconnect the Epson via the Belkin control console. Sometimes I also power down the Epson, power it back up. Then I reconnect to the Epson via the Belkin control console. I am buying one of these for work now since I have not been happy with our HP multifunction scanner. I am replacing HP with a simple Epson scanner that will be on the network despite being a local only product.

• Reviewed by: tompresnyc

  08-16-08

  Duration of ownership: 26 Days

  Strengths: Extremely simple & quick to install. Very sleak so it can barely be seen. So easy to use your ext hard drives and printer wirelessly from ur laptop any where in the house. This thing is the bomb!

  Weaknesses:Have found not one after 1 months use.

  Overall Evaluation: I had been trying to get my PC and my laptop, printer and external hard drives I searched and searched and while I was told ppl knew how to do it, they could never get mine to work, plus they said I had to buy a wireless printer server for multi use printers.........'well i ran uponthis not long ago and it described my very need. i can look at all my external hard drives that are hooked into my desktop and use them as i wish wwhilste on my lapptop in the other room and can also print with the touch of a button wirelessly. Only drawback is......i wish it delivered my printing into me so i wouodnt have to get up lol

• Reviewed by: doowop02

  02-21-08

  Duration of ownership: 1

  Strengths: - Very easy to setup.- Works like a charm.- Highly recommended.

  Weaknesses:- None so far, but we'll really see once I try to wireless connect my Dell M1530 (w/Vista) to the printer I've added to my network using this hub.

  Overall Evaluation: - Because of work I have a new Dell M1530, but have a need to print documents (from another room) using my printer. I tried D-Link's print server, and that really sucked. No tech support at all from D-Link and as soon as I upgraded the D-Link's firmware in hopes an upgrade would help ... the D-Link print server crashed and burned, and I returned the item. - So far I'm likin' this network USB hub from Belkin ... - But let's see how easy it is to set up my new Dell laptop (w/Vista worries).

• Reviewed by: CHICHORAF

  01-21-08

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  Strengths: Simple to install, Works as advertised, great software, 5 USB ports.

  Weaknesses:None.

  Overall Evaluation: I really like this simple but effective Network USB. Now I have wireless (over wi fi) Printing, Scanning, and Storage. If it has a USB connection, chances are that it will work with this little gem. I have a Vista laptop and an XP desktop, and both of them are sharing all my USB devices without any problems. If you have more than one computer and many USB devices and want to share them all, buy the Belkin Network USB Hub! You wont regret it.

• Reviewed by: nodemocrat

  12-31-07

  Duration of ownership: 2 Days

  Strengths: When it does work, it can play movies and MP3s wirelessly.

  Weaknesses:MFGR exaggerates ease of setup. Unreliable.

  Overall Evaluation: Box says setup in 3 minutes. Knew that was too good to be true. Set this thing up with a Linksys G router. First, it took two hours to make the thing work - and when I did, its performance was substandard. Initially, it would not power up so I had to troubleshoot why the link lights next to the CAT5 wire wouldn't receive a signal from the router. Tried another cable and it didn't change anything so I went back to the cable that came with the box. Inexplicably it started working. Next the connections seemed to work fine and the CPU recognized a webcam, 2 external HDs, and an HP laser printer. Interestingly, however, in spite of the printer being recognized print jobs would all fail. I flashed the USB hub with the latest firmware and still no success. Finally I called tech support only to get transferred to another tech line which was only operating during business hours (it was a weekend). Since I have a life and this includes a job, this project now requires business hours which impacts my job. Painful. When are businesses going to just do business 24/7? Don't understand this because in India, those call-centers operate around the clock.At any rate, not all of the MP3s stored on the external HD were recognized by Windows Media Player 11 after the wireless configuration. Passing data to the wireless HDs over wireless-G was painfully slow but tolerable.The straw that broke the camel's back was during the second day of usage when all I did was reboot the CPU, only to discover the 2 external 300GB HDs were now not connecting over the network. I opened Belkin's software and clicked the connect button to no avail. Nothing changed except a simple restart. I tried to connect to both of the HDs and it never worked. Frustrated, I boxed this piece of X up and will return it tomorrow.PD: $79.99 at Best Buy.

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