Belkin Network USB Hub .......reveiews?

So I am trying to add some network media storage and I was thinking about getting the WD My Book: World Edition but now I have been looking the the Belkin Network USB Hub. Does anyone have any personal experience with either one?

 

I've used the Belkin hub before, and ended up not liking it very much. The main reason I didn't like it was that the client app that you install on each computer that can access the drives on the hub is very poorly behaved (at least it was a year ago when I last used the hub) inasmuch as it continually polls for the hub and, if the hub is turned off, will very quickly bring a computer to a grinding halt as it monopolizes the FSB while it polls and then waits for an answer until it hits its time-out, and appears to suffer from a memory leak that will eventually cause it to consume most of the available memory resources on the system if it cannot find the hub because it's been turned off.

Personally, I would go with some other alternative.

 

is there any other out there?

 

If it is only for networked storage then why not look for other NAS (Network Attached Storage) drives or enclosures? There are plenty of models out there.

 

so I was looking at this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822155003

and it looks like want I want but I like being able to stream from my XBOX 360 and it doesnt like this. What Iwant to do is be able to stream avi/divx/mp3/etc files to my 360 so I dont have to connect my laptop and external hdd to my 360.

 

Looks like I'm about all you've got there, boss.

 

I've had one for about 18 months.

I use it to connect to a Multifunction Printer - I've no experience of using it with disk.

I have found the software very flaky and whilst this is OK for a printer, I would not like to trust it with a Hard disk.

Also I don't think Belkin are taking it seriously - updates are slow and rare. My support requests have been ignored.

 

Check my signature, I did a review for NBR months ago.

The product blows chunks.

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3961

 

Yeah, that pretty much captures it. Also, it's likely that Belkin isn't really keen on supporting it since other NAS type devices are relatively inexpensive, so there probably isn't much demand for the product.

 

Not sure what everyone else thinks, but this is the only product that lets me share my Cannon MP220 Printer across the network wirelessly.

Couldn't share my printer via Time Capsule or Windows or Mac Printer Sharing, so done some research into print servers and well want to use all the multifunction modes so went for this, yes it looks cheap and very light, doesn't look like it should cost more than $15, but it works, and works well.

It's not a true print server as it tricks your pc into thinking the USB device connected to the hub is actually connected to your PC.

How it works is you install the belkin software on your pc/mac and then it sits in your system tray scans for devices connected to the USB hub, when it finds one a message pops up asking you if you want to connect, you press yes and then the rest is self explanatory, just acts a USB device connected to your pc, so install the driver and ready to go.

Next time you switch on your device and it connects automatically and it's ready and available pretty much straight away, not experienced one disconnect yet, able to scan and print from a Laptop Wirelessly and desktop, Wireless Scanning!!...

If you device is connected to your desktop pc and say you want to use it on your mac or different pc you can request access to the device via the belkin software and a message pops up on the host pc asking to confirm, once confirmed device connects to other pc..

But so long as you only have one pc on at a time the device automatically connects to that as soon as you switch it on.., if you have a few pc's on then you just request access to it...

You can use it for printer sharing or usb drive sharing, but someone benched it already though as max 3MB/s bandwidth so i'd advise using it for printer sharing only

It is the only device that worked for me