Joined on 07/19/04
As claimed
Pros: Setup is pretty intuitive, insofar as connecting the remote units. Buttons provide fast access to the features you care about - Hi/Low memory, toggle between the channels ( supports additional units ). Display is easy to read even from a ways away.
Cons: Crazy annoying beeping when pushing any button. I had to disassemble the unit and cut the speaker wire ( undo the screws and gently pop the top up - I never did unsnap the bottom part ). The unit is too 'dumb' to ignore the channels you don't have anything connected to. So you have to cycle through two empty channels to get back to the base unit. This is annoying!
Overall Review: With a Disable Annoying Beep and an Ignore Empty channels feature, this would have been a 5 star review.
useless to city dwellers.
Pros: Very good sound, comfortable, _might_ be ok if you live in the country, far from stray radio (920MHz) sources. (Portable phones, baby monitors, old computers, high tension powerlines, who knows what else.)
Cons: The sound which is so good includes any stray radio signals around the 920Mhz bands. So if you are in the city, there is a _constant_ fuzz in the background, running about 40dB for me. On any channel, even after I find the cleanest of the few offered, there are noise spikes every minute or three. Possibly something in the office, possibly from the offices next door... who knows. But it's like taking your CDs and broadcasting them on your own private AM radio station.... In a lightning storm. Basically, these are useless for city dwellers / office workers.
Overall Review: First off, I've had portable 900MHz land line phones with FAR better filtering of stray signals. What gives Sennheiser? Second, the cost of digitizing the signal is now so low, and background chatter on all frequencies so high, that to NOT digitize is equivalent to saying 'we don't mind that our customers are going to have an annoying hiss and random background noise'. I am pretty sure I will never buy from Sennheiser again. Which is a shame, because the headphones are actually quite comfortable -- but the company made such an unbelievable poor decision in releasing a pure analog wireless headset I don't think I could stomach trying their products again.
Don't waste your money.
Pros: Setup isn't painful. Much. Hypothetically can host multiple drives via use of a USB3 hub. When it works. Fast. When it works. Might be a good router after about 6 more firmware releases.
Cons: - Assigns the same IP address to different devices. I've had to force specific IP addresses (using reservations) to work around this. - Can't keep a drive hosted to save its life. - - Drive 'goes away'. I have no idea how or why it's screwing up (there are so, so many options), but if you think you're going to use this to host your backup drives, you're just crazy. Drives disappear like mad. Is the drive going to sleep and the firmware is too stupid to wake it up? No idea. It's gone, and it won't come back without a reset. - - Drive gets listed a second time. This happens to me when I try to use Time Machine. No. It works (worked?) the first time or two. Now I get a bunch of "drive has new id" errors. I don't care enough to go find and copy the real error verbatim. Do. Not. Buy. This. Router. For. Time Machine. Claims of support are a complete lie. It just plain NEVER worked for OS 10.6.8, and it has stopped working for my other 10.9 machine. I should have just bought a Time Capsule.
Overall Review: It works as a router (mostly). Minus one star for the IP reuse, which will likely be fixed in some firmware update or another. But minus 3 more stars for basically not working otherwise, and generally just plain lying about the feature set. I should realize that this is normal by now and just move on with my life. But really. I mean, come on. Netgear can't even host a bloody USB drive for more than a day without falling over? WTH? If you are thinking of buying this because it supports USB-3 drives, well, don't. I seriously cannot get it to host a drive for more than a day before I have to bounce the router. Manually. Reseting via the admin console doesn't cut it.
Great tablet
Pros: Already running Android 3.1. Go ASUS! Same stats as the Samsung Galaxy Tab (a little heavier), but not made by Samsung. Given how much Samsung disappointed me with the Galaxy S, that is important. Good feel. Really nice screen (indoors).
Cons: Pretty much useless outside if you can't find a way to shade the screen. Camera is terrible. Yes, the main camera (back) - I haven't seen a worse picture since the webcam I bought in 2001. HORRIBLE low light. Everything else is quite nice, so this is a glaring bit of neglect. And, while this might be android, the camera refuses to focus properly on a text document that fills the frame unless the light is truly bright - like outdoor sunny bright.
Overall Review: Missing egg for the camera and the missing USB input. Otherwise, I think that this is the tablet to get at the moment. On the lack of a USB input: An integrated micro would have been awesome, but at LEAST a simple cable adapter for the main plug, like the Tab does. Even if it was an accessory. Still waiting for my Keyboard so I can connect a gamepad!
Well worth it.
Pros: Fast fast fast. I use this as my 'take home' drive, and I put all my work on it as truecrypt volumes. I don't have a working hot-swappable e-sata port at either location ( ASUS! You are on my #*(& list ). But this drive reads and writes at the max bus speed over USB. I know this, because I can reduce the transfer rate by a few percent by using a cheaper USB cable ;~) Takes about a minute to copy a 1.7GB file off of it and onto my PC drive, USB mode. It is important to understand that my work computer's internal *disk to disk* transfer rate is slower than this drive. I can actually copy a file off of the Throttle and onto local disk D faster than I can copy the same file from C to D. Cheap Dell box. It isn't the drives, either, it's the internal Bus. And I am talking about straight USB mode for the Throttle - NOT e-sata.
Cons: Male E-SATA connector. Have you EVER seen a female to male USB cable? Me either. And I've looked. You have to buy a gender bender. I can't think of any supportable reason to have a male connector on this device. Sell with a female plug and a short male-male cable. The star I would have taken off for that is won back by the fact that this device is one of the few of its kind on the market. Good idea! Now go make it better :~)
Overall Review: @DRMALIKIA: Your problem is with your computer's support of E-SATA, not this drive. If I buy new wheels for my car, and they don't fit on the car, is it the fault of the wheel? Same deal here. Know what you are buying and why.
Minimum developer effort makes consumer sad.
Pros: The ports physically work. It installs.
Cons: The ability to not crash my computer when I plug/unplug a device is wonderful and all, but WITH that ability it would be nice if the data on my drives aren't rendered into trash. Now, don't get me wrong, I haven't ACTUALLY corrupted any data yet. But if you hotswap drives in Windows using this device, without using a 3rd party, untrusted tool to dismount the volume first ( Hotswap!, or something like it ), you WILL eventually lose data. The device driver for this chipset does NOT support hotswap. It supports hotPLUG. The specs do make this differentiation. Windows will not recognize this device as a possible removable device. It will therefore enable write-caching, and will not allow you to disable it. This means that pieces of your files are stored in RAM until Windows feels like writing it out to the disk.
Overall Review: I wonder how much data will be corrupted because Rosewill ( Silicon Image, really ) released a device that lets users destroy thier data in a nice, convenient way. An external facing port that does not support the removable device spec is beyond stupid. It's lazy. And it is about as user-unfriendly as you can get. 2 stars for missing the point. Two esata ports with no raid options can be found for less.