Belkin OmniGuard Rackmount UPS UPS - 2300 VA

Advantages: Easy to install
Disadvantages: Crashes my machine!

...I bought the Belkin range of products so I could setup a wi-fi network at home. I have the Belkin 54g Router and also have a Belkin 11g card in my desktop at home, so with this set-up successfully I bought the 54g notebook card for my laptop. All were fairly easy to setup but I imagine it could be tricky if you have no networking knowledge. So all installed and ready to go. My laptop has never been the same since. I manage to work for between 10 - 60 mins then it's crash time, computer screen just freezes! This happens around 5 - 10 times a day something that never happened prior to the installation of this card. So technical support i thought, wrong! After waiting for around 45 mins on the dedicated support line I ended up putting the phone down. Email them. So i emailed them with my problem. Around 4 days later I get... Read review

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Advantages: Printer can be sited out of the way anywhere in the house
Disadvantages: Installation was tricky

...My wife is pleased because our printer no longer cloggs up the dining room table. My son and I are pleased because we can share a printer and print from any room in the house. I chose a Belkin wireless print server because I have a Belkin wireless broadband router and assumed that installation and compatibility issues would be avoided. As with other Belkin devices I have purchased, installation was tricky. The Quick Start guide was far from quick and I had to resort to reading the full manual (on the installation cd). Anyway I got it going although I remain unsure as to how exactly I managed it. For the "home user" it all seems a little "techy" for comfort. I can print but, as with the installation, I can never be sure why it worked and there are times when turning everything off and on again seems to be the only solution. It's probably... Read review

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Advantages: Great wireless range, Futureproof, Nice looking, Fast!
Disadvantages: Some may say it looks a little chunky

...all the correct ports and making sure all aspects of the setup are working. The Wireless range of the Belkin surprised me - I was 3 houses down the road from mine with my laptop at a friend's house, and as soon as Windows booted up the laptop got a 'Good' strength signal from the router! This is quite worrying, mainly due to the fact my old DLink router would freak out if you went more than 15-20 feet away from it. Signals would drop out, packets would get lost and Web pages would half load. Setting up the ADSL connection is also very easy with the Belkin router. Simply plug the router in, turn it on, connect your PC to it and tap 192.168.2.1 in to Internet Explorer to bring up the first Setup page. And, err, that's all there is to it. The router's ability to connect to ADSL-2 when the service goes mainstream is also a big plus, as I... Read review

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