Networking Reviews

Easy plug and play on both USB 1.0 or USB 2.0 with Windows XP professional. Had some problems with drive letter assignment on one of my computers, I solved problem myself and after two days have not heard from lacie.com support.
I should note that I have only used with CF cards, but it has worked great under both USB 1.0 and 2.0

I recently upgraded to this hub to service my home after being at 10mbps for quite some time. The Linksys hub is a good value for the money.

Compared to the Netgear 24port hub, the Linksys switch fabric is rated at 2.7gbps. The Netgear is only rated at 1.2gbps. What this means is that the Linksys will be better equipped to handle all the devices talking at once at full speed, whereas the Netgear hub would be congested with roughly half of its devices communicating at any one time.

The preamble regeneration provided by the Linksys is an important feature if you still have 10mbps devices at it decreases synch up time.

You'll certainly notice a difference going to 100mbps from 10. A nice side benefit I realized was with the utilization of my cable modem. By having my cable modem router and my machines each on their own switch port, I gained almost a 25% increase in throughput!

The Linksys hub is easy to install and setup, and includes a fiber expansion port if down the road you have a need to connect two hubs together via fiber optic cable. This unit is unmanaged, and doesn't include such advanced options such as spanning tree, but overall for home or small office use the unit will perform very well and require little maintenance. It includes rack mounts and is slim enough to mount on a small shelf.

I borrowed this product from a friend and it worked great, for file sharing. Do not buy if you want speeds of 100mbps. For internet sharing you have to use Windows ICS which is a pain to install, but when done right works great. (ICS is not the hub's fault, if you don't know how to use it buy a router!) I liked it but I had to give it back.

Linksys provides one of the best, versatile, and easy to use console switches on the market. I've used others that cost less, but broke only weeks later. The first one I got 3 years ago is still working.
This is an easy way to share a monitor, keyboard, and mouse with multiple CPUs. The device allows either keyboard enabled or hardware buttons to switch between systems. New systems can be added without creating new problems. Just plug and play.
Worth the price.

MXU28G WITH CAT5 REACH RECEIVER
by RARITAN COMPUTER work pretty good i had a mouse and 4 monitors all workin good in only 3 hour setup time
no usb support, ovther than that pretty goog

Bought the French version of this unit in Paris at FNAC. It was easy to install on FrenchTelecom using 512kb service. Just be sure to have your connection ID and passwords. With a few days of use, I can report it works well with our IMac and Win XP HP notebook both in wired and wireless mode.

I like it because it has 4 ports and is an integrated solution. This can become a problem if you want to upgrade any of the parts.

Wish it had a dual voltage adapter (110 and 220). The adapter is a step down AC type which I'm seeing more of lately. Unfortunately, it makes it harder to find an adapter in the US.

This one piece solution has been wonderful as a router of my Comcast High Speed Internet accessiblity at home. I bought the Panasonic Gateway because I wanted to network the PC upstairs and I wanted to use HomePNA so that I could just use my home phonelines for networking The bandwidth of 10Mbps networking is fine, since the Cable modem bandwidth is less than that anyways. The Laptop in the home office in the basement connects directly into the ethernet port on the Panasonic Gateway (or, you could use a router on the ethernet port to share with other PCS on a standard network. The Panasonic gateway works fine, and it was easy enough to configure based upon the settings information which is provided by my Comcast cable provider and plugging the information into the settings on the gateway. Essentially, the gateway looks like the only PC which is connected to the Comcast cable modem, and I don't have to pay any additional monthly fees to Comcast for multiple IP addresses. Also, the gateway is a hardware firewall (which, you should be concerned about when using a cabel modem). This means that it works as a NAT, and nobody can see your physical machines running in your home network from the cable network. The ONLY problem with this is that certain software needs to have a connection to your PCs instance of its IP address (ie. I ONLY have this problem with my webcam using software like Netmeeting, and the Comcast Support Online Support tools), and the software can not run correctly because the server it connects to can't fix the instance of the IP address. There is a work around for this in the gateway's settings, but then you open your firewall up to access through that software, which creates security risks (see the Panasonic documentation for the gateway if you want to look into that work around).

All in all, this Panasonic Gateway router has worked well for me since I bought it and installed it over a year ago. I just purchased a Motorola SurfBoard Cable Modem (Sb4200) to replace the one I was renting from the cable company, and it works fine with the gateway too (see my separate review on the modem). I have never used the gateway as a wireless access point as it seems too costly to have to buy 2 cards. It would be cheaper to buy a separate wireless access point and connect that through the ethernet connection (or to a hub, connected to the ethernet port, so as to share that port).

If your wireless doesn't reach the rest of your house (like mine...) powerline is a great solution and these PhonEx units really are pretty much instant plug and play. I was amazed and relieved it was as simple to use as the ads on their site touted and you really can be up and running in less than 2 minutes like they say. (Unless your house is really large and it takes you longer than that to get to the room where you're putting the other extension...) In over 7 months use I have never had a failure with the boxes, speed has been pretty good with a DSL connection, and the best thing is it absolutely completely PC and Mac compatible. I use it in a home office situation where I have PC's, half the people I work with have Macs. You don't need to load anything -- you just plug in, boot up, and you're on. Which is great becuase most of the people I work with just want to turn it on and have it work. They don't wanna load a CD, configure their system, etc etc. My only complaint about the units are they're ugly. Maybe it doesn't matter because they just sit on the floor but still, in this day and age of tech design, they could at least make 'em look a little nice! But kudos to them for making it work so well at least. These are a great, simple, reliable solution to extending your network range. Plug it in (note that you need a minimum of TWO units; one on your router, and one on the other end where ever you are plugging in.) Turn on your computer. Everything works. It's that simple.

I have used this with my ThinkPad for several months now and it has been flawless.

If you accidentally order a Serial ATA hard drive when you meant to order an IDE hard drive, this card will let you use your Serial ATA drive in an IDE connector. This is probably a more expensive solution than returning the Serial ATA drive and paying shipping and a restocking fee, but it's cheaper than upgrading your motherboard to one with a Serial ATA connector, plus someday you might have a system with Serial ATA built-in and get to use the hard disk you bought by mistake for its intended purpose.

I was disappointed that this card does not expose both a Serial ATA and an IDE connector - once you plug this in you lose the use of the IDE connector. For some reason I thought this card had an IDE passthrough, but I was wrong.