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Belkin 4x1 USB Peripheral Switch - USB peripheral sharing switch - 4 ports - USB
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Most Helpful First | Newest First | + Share7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Too good to be true!
(1 out of 5) by Penguin Fach on Feb 5, 2008 (Fife, UK)Sounds a nice idea in principle but unfortunately it doesn't deliver, at least on my system. What the blurb from Belkin doesn't tell you is that this peripheral switch makes a substantial drain on the USB power supply so there is no guarantee that your PC will have enough juice to run it properly. There are ways around this but at greater expense. It runs OK on a couple of older machines but not my newer PC's. Belkin technical support is next to useless and tried to get me to buy more Belkin hardware without offering much of an explanation of the problem. The final disadvantage with this device is that when it works it slows all your USB 2.0 devices to USB 1.0 speeds.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
does not work - avoid
(1 out of 5) by Mr. J. D. Mason on Jun 16, 2008 (Isle of Wight UK)not only are the instructions next to useless. this does not work with multifuncion printers - i was told by belkin 3 hours after opening the packet.
"we did have a switch that used to work, but it had too many problems, so we discontinued it"
marvellous. worst product ever. dont waste your bandwith looking at it.
"we did have a switch that used to work, but it had too many problems, so we discontinued it"
marvellous. worst product ever. dont waste your bandwith looking at it.