Advantages: Smart and tidy with excellent sound quality Disadvantages: A little heavy
We needed a new dockingstation and immediately we thought 'Bose', knowing that this was, in our opinion the best quality.
Our Ipod was one of the cheaper ones but it makes no difference to the output of sound when in this dockingstation. It is Fantastic!
The acoustics are great, base amazing and as the station is a little heavier, it is safe to place anywhere even with a toddler knocking the table every five minutes!
It has a sleek design that looks perfect in the modern home.
The sound is amazing! it has an easy to use compact remote control, which fits perfectly in your pocket. So while you are out having a BBQ in the garden and want to turn the sound UP or Down, it is simple and easy to do.
You can also adjust the volume on the station with ease.
Even at a high level, the sound comes out perfect...not distorted at all ...
Advantages: Very stable, good speed Disadvantages: Not a pretty boy, yet to get remote admin working
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There are a few admissions here and there and some of the routers more exotic features are, in my opinion, worthy of more detailed explanations. At least it has not been written in chinglish.
Features
I have not used the complete set of features this router provides, so I will comment on the ones I have.
Firewall with SPI
This should take care of intrusions from the internet, from which I ran a check to see if the most common ports on the router were "stealthed" (I.E. did not respond when contacted) and they were.
On some other routers I have found ports (like the ones used by Telnet and Finger) to be open by default. Not exactly what you want considering there are over 65,000 of them!!
Port forwarding (called Virtual Servers by Belkin)
Appears to work well without issue. I have successfully configured FTP, pc ...
Advantages: works great most of the time Disadvantages: none, except for the first few months for me.
the cheapest one there and secondly because it was the same make as my actual wireless router which is also a belkin.
The only downside I experience with this was for the first few months it seemed to cut off the internet connection and stop working, sometimes for a few minutes at a time. This always logged me out of my AOL service provider and also msn If I was on it. This however has now stopped happening, so im not too sure what the initial problem actually was, but it hasn’t happened for a few months so everything looks ok now.
After a few attempt of trying to set it up myself, (as I always try doing things without reading the instructions first) I failed to manage on my own. So out came the instruction manual and it was set up in about 10 minutes of my time. It is easily enough to follow and if you do have any problems they do have ...
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Audio
Audio Output
Sound card
Sound Output Mode
5.1 channel surround
Manufacturer's product description
The High-Speed Docking Station from Belkin (the Docking Station) plugs into your notebook computer for one simple, fast connection for all your peripherals through your notebook's ExpressCard slot. Now you can connect to more than one monitor at a time, or to just one big-screen monitor, for a superior, digital video experience. Your keyboard, mouse, printer, scanner, camera, MP3 player - and lots more - can stay plugged in, or you can connect easily in seconds, anytime you want.
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