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Belkin F5L009 5-Port Network USB Hub | 
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Brand: Belkin
Category: CE
List Price: $129.99
Buy New: $68.88
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Avg. Customer Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 1768
Color: BLACK
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Modem: None
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 8 x 3.3
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: F5L009
Model: F5L009
UPC: 722868629666
EAN: 0722868629666
ASIN: B000QSN3O6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Allows computers to share USB external hard drives, printers, scanners and media readers wirelessly | | • | Easy 3-minute setup | | • | Compatible with all wireless routers (router not included) | | • | 3-year Belkin warranty | | • | Network Hub gives network computers wireless access to up to 15 USB devices |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Your home computers are networked wirelessly, but with all the digital photos, video and music your family has been collecting, they're all running out of hard drive space. And what's more, you and your kids each need access to a printer. With the Belkin Network USB Hub, you can give each computer on your network direct wireless access to up to 15 devices, including an external hard drive to store your family's digital media and a printer that everyone on your network can share. With this convenient, easy-to-install device, the days of purchasing separate printers and peripherals for each of your computers is over. Share up toFifteen Devices Wirelessly
The Belkin Network USB Hub allows you to give every computer connected to your network access to up to 15 USB devices. (The Hub itself will connect directly to five devices, but it also lets you "daisy chain" three additional USB hubs to it, so that you can connect a total of 15 USB devices to your network computers.) While the Hub is specifically designed for printers and mass-storage devices, it also works for most other USB devices, including most standard webcams, keyboards and mice, multifunction machines, scanners, and media readers. 
Enjoy simple setup and operation right out of the box. View larger. | 
Included software manages all the devices attached to the Hub. View larger. | - Sharing up to 15 USB devices wirelessly, including printers, digital cameras and scanners
- Backing up and accessing data from a shared external storage device
- Playing music from an MP3 player connected to a USB dock (using USB speakers)
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The perfect solution for connecting to your USB devices and drives from a wireless laptop. Note: The Hub requires a a wireless router, which must be purchased separately. View larger. | You can even dock an MP3 player and play music through your USB speakers wirelessly. If your device has a USB connection, chances are that everyone on your network can access it wirelessly. (Some high-speed devices, such as high-definition webcams and video docking stations, may not be compatible with the Network USB Hub.) Once the Hub is set up, you simply plug your USB devices into one of its five USB ports, and the Hub seamlessly installs software that makes USB printers and other devices appear to be connected to your network computers. The convenience of this direct USB-connection emulation requires that only one user be linked to each device at a time. So if your daughter is editing video on the external hard drive, the software lets you contact her to request that she disconnects from the drive so you can access it. With printers, the Hub automatically disconnects users after completing a print job, so that other users on your network can print. Quick and Easy Set Up
Even if you don't have an external hard drive or other peripherals you want your computers to access, the Belkin USB Hub is one of the best ways you can share a printer on your network. It not only effectively functions as the industry's first reliable print server, it's also one of the easiest to install. Set-up takes less than three minutes with the included CD. Simply insert the set-up disk, and in five easy steps you'll be ready to go. If you have the Windows firewall activated on your PC, the Hub will automatically detect it and ask you if you wish to allow it to work from behind the firewall. (Users of other firewalls must manually add the device driver to their list of allowed programs.) While the Belkin USB Hub works best with the Belkin N1 Wireless Router (a router is not included with the Hub), it will work seamlessly with any existing wireless router. The distance and quality of the connection of your computers to your USB devices will depend on the quality of your router and your Internet connection. And aside from having a wireless network and USB devices you want to connect to, the only requirement is that your computers are running Window XP or Vista. NOTE: The Belkin USB Hub connects directly to your existing wireless router. The Hub does not have routing capabilities, and does not include a router. You must purchase the router separately. Warranty Information
3-year Belkin Warranty What's in the Box
Network USB Hub, power supply, RJ45 Ethernet cable, quick install guide, and setup installation CD.
Product Description
Share multi-function printers, access media readers, digital cameras and scanners with everyone on your network. Share USB Hard Drives. Play music from an MP3 player connected to a USB dock using USB speakers. Access Web Cams: eliminates the USB cable to the laptop.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 59 more reviews...
 I'm truly wireless =) November 18, 2008
Belkin F5L009 5-Port Network USB Hub
I, too, have been looking for this product for a while, and the payoff couldn't be more sweet. I am not connected to anything right now, but am able to use my wireless mouse, 2 hard drives, the Western Digital My Book Essential 750GB, and the Toshiba Portable USB 2.0 320GB, (which is USB powered), my OfficeJet 6100, and my Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 6000. It was simple enough to connect, but Windows Firewall must not be set to block all incoming connections. After I figured that out, it was a breeze. You plug a device in to the USB hub, and you hear the windows plug and play connect sound. Also, the hub is fast enough to play movies off of the Toshiba USB powered hard drive. Not HD movies, but the regular 700mb kind.
One gripe- I just purchased the Logitech Clearchat Wireless, and the as not fast enough. The sound was choppy on an MP3 and I didnt even try to dictate to Dragon Naturally Speaking 10. But other than that, it does what it says, and it is glorious.
Wait, it does work with the clearchat, I just had to use the USB dongle dock, and it works fine, no choppiness or anything. Have yet to test it with Dragon, but will know in a little bit. Would change my review to a 5 now but I can't seem to edit the rating.
 Excellent Product! November 2, 2008
I needed to connect 3 printers to my wireless router in order to be able to print from any of the 4 computers connected to my wireless network, without having to leave turned on a computer to share the printers. I am using the Belkin F5L009 5-Port Network USB Hub to do that, and it is working great!
I have this Belkin USB Hub connected to my Linksys WRT54GS Wireless G Router with Speedbooster. I have 3 printers connected to the Belkin USB Hub: a Cannon MP 830, an Epson PictureMate Deluxe, and an HP Laserjet 1200 Series. For the HP LaserJet printer I am using a "Gigaware USB-A to Centronics Parallel Printer" cable. I have 4 Dell computers connected to the Linksys wireless router: a desktop and a notebook using Windows XP Professional, and 2 notebooks using Windows Vista Home Premium.
The Belkin USB Hub allowed me to configure it in such a way that the computers automatically connect and disconnect from the printers when printing. In order to use the scanner on the Cannon MP 830 I cannot use the "automatic connection" option. But connecting and disconnecting while scanning is very easy using the USB Hub Control Center, and it works pretty good.
I definitely recommend this Belkin USB Hub if you need to connect one or more computers to one or more printers! It allows me to print from any computer on my wireless network without having to leave a computer turned on to share printers.
 Corrupted my hard drive (OS X) October 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This may very well be an isolated case, but I happily unpacked my Belkin Network USB HUB after 2 months of it sitting in the packaging. I successfully plugged in a USB scanner and did some remote scanning. Taking it to the next level of wireless, I moved my hard drive over.
I plugged it in. Everything worked (kind of) fine. I could access the disk, but playing files in iTunes resulted in some skipping. Finally frustrated with the skipping, I went to plug the external hard drive directly into my computer.
It didn't show up.
I plugged it back into the USB Hub. It still didn't show up. I opened Disk Utility only to have it tell me the entire drive was corrupt. I called Belkin support and after being escalated to Level 2 support, I was told that "The drive is corrupted, sorry".
That was it. No trying to troubleshoot. No offers of goodwill to recover the data on the drive. Just a flat-out tough luck.
Like I said, this may very well be an isolated incident... But I'll never, ever plug anything into that Belkin Network USB Hub again.
Does what I need it to do October 19, 2008
I only have one laptop computer and I have severe space constraints. This device enabled me to put peripheral devices in places other than next to where I use the computer. I didn't want additional cords to the computer and I don't want to use wireless devices for data.
With this hub, I can use my wired firewall/router to access external drives and other usb devices located in other parts of the room. For instance, I can leave a wireless mouse receiver in it so that doesn't take up any direct usb ports. I've used it for several hours daily for at least 6 months now and it has worked well for me.
The worst part was installing it, especially the printer. It's not quite plug and play, but almost. As someone in another review mentions, it's "if you know how to use it". But I didn't and it wasn't easy for me. According to the router, the hub is apparently a network device, but what's connected to it act like they're directly connected. Which confused the heck out of me at first. For instance, I tried to configure what I thought was now a network printer. Nope! I configured it as direct and it worked.
I am not so sure about security for any of the drives on it. It seems they could potentially be accessed straight from the router if it's breached, there does not seem to be any password security available through the hub itself. It would take third party software to password the drive itself. Too much for me. So to be safer, I keep those drives encrypted via windows, but it all seems to make using these drives much slower. At least I've had no problems accessing them.
A few times the computer had a hard time staying connected to the devices, but it's not happened often.
I do wish it had more ports, and I'll probably start daisy chaining soon which will probably slow things down even more.
For the most part it all fires right up and it has made my life much easier since I don't have to move things around all the time.
 My experience has been mixed October 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this unit for a local network with two Macs and a Windows laptop. As someone else noted, the box indicated it is for Windows, but I was able to also find Mac drivers on the Belkin site. The Belkin support site is not well organized, and I had to search by the product number (F5L009)rather than name in order to locate it.
The unit actually works pretty well as a print server, but is useless trying to share an external hard drive. Several other reviewers have stated this unit is not intended for hard drives, which appears to be true. What's worse, the Belkin control center periodically freezes on the Mac, and then locks up the computer completely forcing a reboot by holding down the power button (I've rarely needed to do this under OS X).
The idea behind this hub is excellent, and maybe at some point it will be useable for more than just printer sharing. It's too late to return it, so I will probably keep it as a printer server, and look for another solution for network backup.
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