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| Belkin F5U216 Hi-Speed USB 2.0 DockStation |
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List Price: $117.90
Our Price: $83.72
You Save: $ 34.18 (29%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Belkin Components
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Belkin
EAN: 0722868465004
Feature: Device Type - Docking Station
Floppy Disk Drive Description: None
Is Autographed: 0
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Label: Belkin Components
Manufacturer: Belkin Components
Model: F5U216
Modem Description: None
Publisher: Belkin Components
Studio: Belkin Components
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Features
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Device Type - Docking Station
- Features travel-friendly, compact design
- Connects all your devices through one hub, using two cables
- Installs with Plug-and-Play convenience
- Brings hard-to-reach ports to your desktop for easy port access
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Hi-Speed USB 2.0 DockStation lets you use just two cables to connect parallel, serial, VGA, Ethernet and USB 2.0 devices to your notebook. It makes connecting your monitor and all your peripherals - your printer, scanner, external hard drivers, and more - easy and convenient. You can leave all of your devices attached to the DockStation; then, when you return to the office, two cables instantly connect all your devices to your notebook with Plug-and-Play ease. You don't even need to reboot. The Hi-Speed USB 2.0 DockStation provides two USB 2.0 ports, one parallel port, one 10Base-T/100Base-T Ethernet port, one VGA pass-through port for connecting your monitor, and one RS232 serial port.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Interesting Choice of Features
Comment: I purchased this device because I wanted a generic, USB-based port replicator. My goal was to connect my laptop to the power and USB cable and have the mouse, external keyboard, network cable, and other USB devices all tied in through the port replicator. I really don't use serial or parallel.
This device has the connectors for serial, parallel, two USB2 ports, and Ethernet networking. It also has video passthrough, which I'll come back to in a moment. It did not have PS/2 style mouse and keyboard ports. That's a serious shortcoming.
As for pass-through video ... I can't see the purpose of that at all. You can connect your monitor to the Belkin, then connect a video cable from the Belkin to your PC's video card. It doesn't make life any easier since you still have to connect the video cable. All it really does is to add a few inches of video cable. Seems a total waste as a feature. Maybe I'm missing something. But I would rather have keyboard, mouse, or additional USB ports. Maybe even a firewire? No need for a pass-through video.
So anyway, I was disappointed by the lack of keyboard & mouse ports, but hooked it up anyway. Everything worked fine. All my devices were recognized, driver installation was smooth, etc. The only thing odd was that it seemed that whenever I generated network or printer traffic through this device, I would hear the "ping-pong" sounds typically heard when a USB device is disconnected / reconnected. In fact, with regular use, the PC was making "ping-pong" sounds every few seconds.
Whether it was my PC, the driver, or the device that couldn't keep up, this device simply didn't work out for me. Even if it worked well, I probably would have returned it due to the unusual choice for ports.
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