Safecom SBRU-10100 - 4 port Cable Router + Printer Port
Ease of Set Up
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Safecom SBRU-10100 - 4 port Cable Router + Printer Port
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Value For Money
Ease of Use
Ease of Set Up
It's Hard To Believe The Products This Good Are Av
It's hard to believe the products this good are available for so little money! When I bought this router, I was skeptical that it would be up to the mark due to its low price. However, after I bought it I was so happy that I bought one more to expand my home network.
I was looking for a device with a print server and I found this for just over £15, while most print-servers will cost around £50. Even if you want to use this router as a print server only, it's so much cheaper than a print server alone, plus it has router capability and a lot more.
I have recommended this product to friends and they are all very happy with it.
Great buy overall.
(Note: this is NOT a modem. It will work with NTL but for ADSL you'll need an ADSL modem)
Value For Money
Ease of Use
Ease of Set Up
A Friend Wanted To Be Able To Connect Two Addition
A friend wanted to be able to connect two additional laptops into the NTL cable internet link. After some research I took the risk of buying the Safecom SBRU-10100 from E-buyer.com, thinking that if it didn't work properly £14 was not great sum.
Connecting everything together was straight forward, and I already had several spare CAT5 cables. I wasn't as thorough as I should have been switching it all on for the first time, and I was annoyed there was no internet connection. However, reading the instructions helped!
Everything needs to totally powered off, including the NTL set top box (STB), and left off for several minutes. (I made a cup of tea.) First the STB was switched on and allowed to completely boot up. Then the Safecom SBRU-10100 is switched on, and allowed to completely boot up, and finally the PC is switched on and Windows loaded. All was now fine.
The laptops were connected and the internet connection was seamless.
The printer, a Canon i350 with USB connection was plugged into the Safecom SBRU-10100.
The printer port needs to be created on any computer attached to the Safecom SBRU-10100, and this requires software being run from the supplied CD-ROM. The files can also be downloaded from Safecom's website if the CD gets mislaid.
A windows utility called "WRESET" needs to be run to rest the printer connection, and then a test page from each computer printed fine first time. However, the Canon ink-jet lost its bi-directional facility but that was well outweighed by the ease of printing from any attached PC.
And of course, if the attached PCs are correctly set up as network workgroup, then file sharing is easy and fast. The 1Mb DSL connection seemed to cope OK with four people surfing simultaneously, remaining very responsive.
Safecom's website for the Safecom SBRU-10100 and driver download page:
safecom.cn/code/sub/category.asp?prdid=314&subcatid=39
This has turned out to be a great success, and is ideal for fully spec'd wired home network for people with a cable internet connection. The printer port is very handy, meaning the printer need not beplugged/unplugged for other users, and can remain place.
Highly recommended and not at all costly.
This peice of kit will link together up to 4 computers, a USB printer and a cable (not an ADSL, i.e. telephone line) internet connection. NTL (National Transcommunications Limited), Telewest and Blueyonder are cable internet providers.
At the risk of sounding patronising, this article is located under Computer Hardware -> Modems and Networking, and I started the review by saying: "A friend wanted to be able to connect two additional laptops into the NTL cable internet link." This is a section for reviewing specific pieces of equipment, and is not a tutorial. You will need to do research elsewhere if the terminology not understood.
ADSL = Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, a technology that allows more data to be sent over existing copper telephone lines. ADSL supports data rates of from 1.5 to 9 Mbps when receiving data (known as the downstream rate) and from 16 to 640 Kbps when sending data (known as the upstream rate).
Mbps = megabits per second.
This product has something to do with computers - yes? This probably is a good article for a computer geek to understand, but as a 'beginner' I would have loved to have been 'led into' it: with the basics explained. In particular, how a basic system works (and with what equipment) followed by what this product does (in simple terms) and how such improves one's computer system. As I know that how a space rocket works can be explained in layman's terms surely the same could be done here? The article could then potentially benefit both computer experts and amateurs like myself.
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