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Kirk B.

Kirk B.

Joined on 03/02/07

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Most Favorable Review

She's a beast

OkiData MC361 Multifunction Color Laser Printer
OkiData MC361 Multifunction Color Laser Printer

Pros: Prints decent quality for basic home office use. I don't print often,and I was tired of buying new ink / using half the cartridge to "self clean the nozzle" every time I needed to print because I didn't use it often enough. I'm not even 3/4 of the way down on toner. I also love the fact that the toner is all in separate cartridges, so when I go through a certain color faster for whatever reason I can just replace that color. The web interface is easy to navigate, and useful. Also love the fact that I can hook it up into my network and use it from any PC in my house (I have 5 of them).

Cons: She's pretty big. And heavy. But everything seems to be well-built. Definitely wouldn't put this on anything that isn't sturdy, though, especially if you have small kids. Also worthy to note, though, that I have a problem printing certain colors. It really doesn't like pinks or oranges. I'm not going for high-quality prints, so that's not a huge deal to me.

Overall Review: Bought one of those cheepo end-tables from Wally World for like $15 to put her on and I haven't had a problem yet. Overall, I'd say this is a great printer. Love the copy tray, too.

Most Critical Review

Worked fine for about a month.

Rosewill RHRC-11001 - Windows Vista / 7 / 8 MCE Infrared Remote Control with Learning Function
Rosewill RHRC-11001 - Windows Vista / 7 / 8 MCE Infrared Remote Control with Learning Function

Pros: Looks okay. Long enough cable on IR receiver.

Cons: Everything worked fine for the first month I had this. Then, all of a sudden it stopped working. You can see the IR receiver picking up the signal when you press the buttons, but the signal's not getting passed to the computer.

Overall Review: I got this when it was on sale for $8, so I didn't really care enough to do anything other than chuck it in the trash. I definitely wouldn't pay full price for this, though.

Does everything I want

TP-Link TL-R600VPN SafeStream Gigabit Multi-WAN Desktop VPN Router
TP-Link TL-R600VPN SafeStream Gigabit Multi-WAN Desktop VPN Router

Pros: Does everything a guy can want. Routes, DCHP Server, easy to navigate control panel, you can reboot the thing from the web interface, only allow specific MAC addresses to be able to log into the control panel, and even auto updates DDNS. Other than the few times that I've had to reboot it, I haven't had any problems with it.

Cons: Required field, so I may as well put my own stupidity here. Had one output that wouldn't work. Figured out it was the cable. But it wasn't actually the cable, you just need to use a crossover cable when connecting from a router's out switch to a keystone jack. I re-ran that cable like 4 times...

Overall Review: Purchased this to replace the "router" on my Time Warner issued UBEE DDW 3611 piece of garbage. Googled how to put that junk into bridge mode (it's through some secret url) and hooked up the TP-link router in it's place. Other than the occasional (I think in the 6 months I've had the router I've had to do it once) hard-reset I haven't had a single problem with this device.

Not Impressed

SYBA SY-PEX40008 PCI Express Low Profile Ready SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Software RAID Controller Card
SYBA SY-PEX40008 PCI Express Low Profile Ready SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Software RAID Controller Card

Pros: Set up the Raid-5 Array with no problems

Cons: If the card is plugged into my server, then it fails to boot and I see a "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" if I take it out, it boots just fine. No problems finding the discs, or setting up the array, but now I can't boot into my server.... and that's the whole point of me buying this card.

Overall Review: Severely dissapointed in this card. It has given me nothing but problems.

Seriously Dissapointed

BYTECC RJ-45PLUG Cat 6 Crystal Clear RJ-45 Tip/Connector, 100-Pack
BYTECC RJ-45PLUG Cat 6 Crystal Clear RJ-45 Tip/Connector, 100-Pack

Pros: All 100 Came.......

Cons: Only the plugs, do not buy if you do not have the internal parts of the plugs on hand.

Overall Review: My project has to wait even more time because now I have to go find some plugs that actually have the internals to them so I can actually run the wire I bought....... DO NOT BUY IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE INTERNALS!!!!