http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/ Engadget Comments for Belkin starts shipping the Network USB Hub http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8374519&st=belkin+network+hub&type=product&id=1178925992366]]>Sep 20th 2007 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 21st 2007 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 21st 2007 4:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/
Works fine - you sometimes have to trade control of the peripheral in question, but otherwise seems nice. Better than usb print servers which, as far as I've seen, are hit and miss on what printers they support.

Still waiting for the Mac software, however.]]>Sep 20th 2007 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/
I forgot, Apple was the first to make a square with rounded edges. ]]>Sep 21st 2007 3:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/w]]>Sep 21st 2007 3:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/
Guess I'll have to wait on some reviews.]]>Sep 20th 2007 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/I plugged the rj45 into a wireless game adapter. Works great its fast enough Thor I would not try to transfer huge files (1gb+). ]]>Sep 20th 2007 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/
yeah, that makes much sense.]]>Sep 20th 2007 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/
Anyway, like others, I'll wait for both the reviews and a few more driver updates - at a minimum.]]>Sep 20th 2007 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 22nd 2007 1:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/
You got to admit it though, this thing does look remarkably like a black Airport Extreme, though this one has a more desirable feature set than the AE, just due to the multitude of USB ports over Ethernet ports, which is really more practical (at least for me). ]]>Sep 21st 2007 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/
Some benchmarks would also be interesting.

And does it work with isochronous devices, e.g. cameras?]]>Sep 20th 2007 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 21st 2007 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 20th 2007 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/ ? Not only that but I also get a 802.11n, and a gigabit connection.]]>Sep 20th 2007 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 21st 2007 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/
However, it would be interesting to see how REAL wireless USB operates compared to this wannabe 802.11 thing.]]>Oct 10th 2007 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/
You need the additional software/drivers for the OS (be it mac, windows or linux) to see these devices, which are attached to USB ports on another IP in your network, as *locally* attached USB devices. That's how it works, what makes it robust to many devices, but makes it require software and require the users on multiple machines to "trade" the hardware. That is, if you mount a USB drive on machine one, machine two can't mount it until machine one lets it go. You can set the software up so this isn't an issue with printers (there's an option to grab the device, print, and let go, thus all users can print at any time..)]]>Sep 21st 2007 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Digi has a similar device called AnywhereUSB that my company uses to add USB support to Virtual Machines. Since VMWare ESX has no means of providing USB Connections, Network based USB is the best alternative. Unfortunately the Digi model doesnt do USB2 from what I can tell. It also costs about DOUBLE the price of the Belkin shown here.

Guess I will have to get one and see how it compares to the Digi version

Digi AnywhereUSB: http://www.digi.com/products/usb/anywhereusb.jsp

PS: If you try this on VMWare, you need to extract usbd.sys from your Windows XP/2003 CD into %systemroot%\system32\drivers BEFORE you install the Virtual ISB Software. Since ESX doesnt support USB, that driver is not installed by default.]]>Sep 21st 2007 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Sep 21st 2007 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/belkin-starts-shipping-the-network-usb-hub/Oct 6th 2007 10:06PM