Great hardware but firmware crippled
I am very impressed with both the hardware and software. The unit works very well and the two USB ports should be capable of delivering quite a bit of power as the power supply can be up to 5 amp. Unfortunately the software design is made so that a computer always is assigned *all* devices connected to one (or both) of the two ports. So if you connect a USB hub to a port, all those devices will be assigned. So effectively only two users can share devices at the same time. What a shame! I think Digi deliberately crippled the software like this so that they can sell their very expensive 8- and 24-port versions. (Otherwise you could just buy the 2-port version and use it to share any number of devices to any number of users). I recommend that you check out the Silex Technology DS-600 or DS-700 that in my opinion offer much better value. Silex is not trying to sell huge multi-port devices. Instead they have designed the software so that you simply connect a hub and access/share each USB device individually. A user (computer) can connect to each USB device individually, leaving the other USB devices usable/accessible to other users (computers). Read more








