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I purchased the Belkin F5LO49 (Home Base) 18 months ago. I opened the box 3 days ago. I plugged in 1 x 1Tb WD, 1 x 2TB WD and 1 x 2TB Samsung. The only USB port light that works was the 1TB WD. After 8 hours of playing over 3 days, the 2 x 2TB would light up with NLAS turned off. With NLAS turned off, Control centre recognises all the drives. It does not connect to them! Win 7 network "sees" the Home Base but cannot talk to it - network error. After 4 attempts got through to Belkin support. I'm sorry it is not supported under Win 7. Would you have a vista machine? Well yes I do; but even if I get it to work on the Vista machine its not going to work on my Win7 box is it? says I. "NO" says the CSR. "Good bye", says I.

CRAP! and $180 18months ago!

It sometimes works when using snow leopard and after i upgrade to lion it does not working anymore.
Asked the tech support for assistance I need to chase them up for 3 weeks with the excuse "escalated to developer" but they comeback saying they stop creating the driver for mac os. So in other hand the device is just USELES!!!!

Junk. Would not recommend to anyone.

Background: I had a dinky little print server from Linksys, about the size of a cigarette pack. Worked great, and worked for ALL the computers in the house. No waiting - just send click print and it worked. But it wasn't wireless, and when I moved my router to another room, I needed a wireless print server. So I bought this POS.

#1: After installing the software, it thinks it needs to install the printer drivers again, even though the computer already has the printer driver installed. This leads to an endless loop where it keep asking for the printer server it already has, and won't stop looking.
#2: If you reinstall your printer drivers, it still won't find them, and will ask for them again the next time the printer is connected.
#3: It supposedly will automatically connect and disconnect from the printer as needed, but it doesn't work. For example: I print from computer "A", it connects and prints, but then when I go to print from computer "B" it is supposed to automatically disconnect Computer "A" and connect computer "B". It doesn't work. I have to manually "connect" to the rpinter from one computer, which prevents access from any other computer in the house until it is manually disconnected.
#4: Lousy customer service. When I asked customer service how to fix this, the response was, "Yes, the Belkin Home Base automatically connects and disconnects as needed." When I pointed out that this was NOT my question and that their answer was useless, they took a week to email back (and then only when prodded) that I should install the software from their website instead of the CD. Which, ironically, is what I did with half the computers in the house, because they don't have CD/DVD drives. I explained that their answer was useless, and they have never responded.
#5: I got the thing working, albeit with manual connect only. But now, when I need to use it again a few weeks later, I find that it once again refuses to connect to the printer, EVEN THOUGH THE "HOME BASE CONTROL CENTER" says that it is connected.

Crap. Junk. Worthless. Expensive.

I have only just started using this device so my scoring maybe a little pre-mature! Firstly, the initial setup was a breeze. The home base control center found my printer but at first wouldn't connect. There is a very simple fix in the FAQ in help. This involved following easy steps to change firewall settings. It now works perfectly. As a print server, I can't knock it. It connects quickly, appears to have no restricting re size of documents and images (unlike my old belkin print server which by belkin's own admission, was rubbish).
Strangely, I have managed to access a USB memory device by more than one computer which seems to go against what other reviews state. Obviously, I only one user can access any one file.
I have just watched a full lenght movie from a pen drive in DivX format from a pendrive through the Home Base on my Laptop. The quality was excellent, the movie started within 15 seconds and didn't miss a beat. I haven't tried using it for storing video editing projects yet or for sharing music files so I can't comment on that. However, so far, its seems to be doing what it says on the box. Fingers crossed that it remains that way.

I bought the Belkin home base for three reasons: 1. share a printer, 2. share data on external harddisks, and 3. use it as a media server.
To make it short: Installation under Win XP and Win7 was no problem at all, just stuck to the short guidelines. Also no trouble with the stability of the wlan connection. Then the trouble started.
1. printer support does not work, neither under Win XP nor Win7. The printer is found correctly, but the installation of the drivers does not work. Reason is probably that it's a multifunction device (HP PSC 1210) and the drivers are not found by Windows. Might not be a Belkin problem, but anyhow it does not work.
2. data sharing works perfectly well, with the already mentioned slow speed.
3. Media server show the same weak performance as Craig described - only a small fraction of the files are accessible, a mix of pics, videos, music, and these keep changing with every refreshment. I try to access these with a Phillips NP2500, also not listed but DLNA compatible.

So 1 out of 3 is not good for a 99€ device. The email support of Belkin was quick, but far too general and did not address my problem.

My conclusion is that the description and data sheet suck. They're both too short and do not address all the restrictions, so it's really misleading.