Want to Print, Share Your Files, and Backup Your Data Wirelessly? The Belkin Home Base Does It All

Posted on 15 September 2009, at 1:40 pm, by Jason Reese

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Some of the biggest challenges with technology and the gear we decide to regularly use is what problem(s) does it solve? Will it improve my efficiency? Is it cost effective? Take the challenge of wireless printing, backing up data from multiple computers, and then sharing that data across your network.

This used to require separate pieces of equipment and the frustration time to manually configure each separate item on your network. As is usually the case with new products, convergence is the name of the game (and Gear Diary loves convergence!). Let’s take a look at the new Belkin Home Base, which aims to let anyone with an existing wireless network easily print, backup files, and share their data to anyone on their network.

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The Belkin Home Base will allow you to print to a common printer from any computer, anywhere in the home — just plug your USB printer up to the Home Base and voila! you now have a wireless networked printer ready for the entire family (or small office).

Need to share files over your wireless network without an expensive home media server? Just take an existing external hard drive and plug it up to the Belkin Home Base. Now you have wireless access to save and share your photos, videos, music, and documents. With the Automatic Sharing Feature, the Home Base can even automatically upload your new photos to a Flickr or Picassa account.

The Home Base will also automatically back up each connected computer’s files periodically to a connected external hard drive, so you don’t have to worry about sudden data loss. You can also use the Home Base with popular gaming consoles like PS3™ or Xbox 360®, to wirelessly access media files stored on an attached hard drive. Need more reasons to check it out? The Home Base does all this in a small device that won’t take up much room, is portable, and easy to set up. Convergence, efficiency, and simplicity. Now that’s some gear worth adding