http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/ Engadget Comments for Belkin Home Base brings wireless printing and file sharing to any PC 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/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Look the fonera! 49€ for the file sharing on WiFi... maybe tere is not the print server... but 49€ vs 130$ it's quite huge difference!]]>Sep 16th 2009 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/It's all a bandwidth thing, if it has 4 ports then it can only handle 4 high bandwidth devices (Hard disks, scanners, USB sticks, USB WiFi)]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/
So I guess my question still stands. If I plug in that hub into the device, will all my hard drives work with it?]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/
uh, how's the software? or do i have to use mac os x and/or windows to figure it out? how does it play with windows 7 and snow leopard? screenshots?]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/
It's probably running Linux and uses Samba/CIFS to share the devices. If that's the case, then it will be compatible with just about any modern OS. (Windows 7, XP, 2003, 2000, OS X anything, Solaris, Linux, BSD, etc).]]>Sep 15th 2009 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/
I wouldn't mind to pick up one of these... sounds like a wonderful idea and hopefully it works as described.]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=105&cp_id=10521&cs_id=1052103&p_id=5344&seq=1&format=2

...and it looks as though a new version is in the works already.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=105&cp_id=10521&cs_id=1052103&p_id=6041&seq=1&format=2]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/
Ahh.... The shininess I could have bathed in with you Belkin~ But you would get dusty and die on me prematurely! Alas, our love was not meant to be... ::dramatic pose::]]>Sep 15th 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/ network bridge. Lets you connect to USB devices over the network. It only allows a single connection per device, and only really supports windows. Pretty cool device, but not directly comparable.]]>Sep 15th 2009 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/This thing is special because it's just a share box not a router although a very expensive one.]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 16th 2009 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Nothing to do with Windows you sad iDiot]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 17th 2009 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/AND it is a NAS.....
AND it is not Belkin's famous crap quality.

So - why, sir, why???]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 17th 2009 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/
For those who say this can be done already, please enlighten me. I'm looking for the following:

* WIreless access of existing USB printers & hard drives (and not via a USB hub)
* For those proposing an Airport, I don't want to keep my printer with my router (which is in my living room so it can hook up to my 360). Anyways I think I need to keep my FIOS router.

]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/
How can I scan wirelessly?]]>Sep 15th 2009 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/]]>Sep 15th 2009 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/
On a more serious note...I bought a Belkin N+ router w/USB connector a while back, hoping that I could hook my WD external hard drive to it and stream to my classic XBox running XBMC, but playing my DVD ISO files resulted in nonstop stuttering. I'm still curious if they ever fixed that via a firmware update (I returned mine within 30 days to Best Buy).

Their website claims that this is good for storing media files for streaming to an XBox 360 or PS3, so it sounds like they may have fixed whatever networking issue I was having with this box.]]>Sep 15th 2009 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/
But no need for me...since I have a wifi printer, and a NAS.]]>Sep 15th 2009 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/
Even the products on Monoprice do not offer this. ]]>Sep 15th 2009 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/Sep 15th 2009 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/
Here at the house I have three routers going on after spending two days understanding the open source firmware DD-WRT. Two Linksys WRT54g/s and one WRT110. Only the WRT110 is connected to the cable modem and the other two extend the signal to my XBox 360 (no pricey wireless adapter for me) and to the office.

If this Belkin product does work, that's terrific.... but I've found others that do the trick will - but like others said - it does need to be connected a wired port on your router. For me? I'd much rather do that - I'd buy a refurb Airport Extreme Router before I bought this, has much more capabilities for $10 more.

I still think you can find wireless print servers on NewEgg for roughly $70, I think this product is for people that really don't want to mess with something all that long. Again, I just hope that it works.]]>Sep 16th 2009 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/
http://www.ecityvalue.com]]>Sep 16th 2009 5:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/belkin-home-base-brings-wireless-printing-and-file-sharing-to-an/
The "control center" software installs and seems to run - but has a real problem keeping the printer listed as being connected via USB - and has apparent problems with allowing configuration of printers connected to it. With a lack of any real technical documentation (and no, the sheet with pictures of how to hook things up doesn't count), and support being apparently non-existant for this device from Belkin - I'll be returning it, and finding something else.

Oh well, could have been cool - still needs work, and is definitely not worth the price right now.]]>Nov 13th 2009 3:18PM