| | |  | USB Switches | Home » » » » IOGear 1-Port USB 2.0 Net ShareStation GUIP201 | | | | | | | Description: | | IOGear GUIP201 USB Net ShareStation, IOGEAR new palm-sized USB Net ShareStation enables an external hard drive, flash drive, memory card reader, USB webcam, USB speaker, or USB Multi-Function Printer (MFP) to be shared on a network. With the versatility afforded by the USB Share Station, users can now enjoy their favorite multimedia content stored on their computer from anywhere in their home or office. A user can attach a standard USB webcam to the USB Net ShareStation as a simple and low cost security monitoring solution for their home and/or small office use. The unit includes Multi-Function Printer sharing, any user can print, scan, or fax from any computer in their home. The USB ShareStation also supports a USB 2.0 Hub extension, which can support up to 4 USB devices over your home or office IP network. It complies with USB 2.0 specifications, and provides users with an auto-sensing 10/100Base-T port. The print server will automatically identify your printer make/model upon connection. When connecting IOGEAR USB Net ShareStation to a wireless router, users can access their multimedia content and USB devices wirelessly. The UPnP technology enables quick and easy setup and configuration in a Windows Vista environment. It is a one-stop-shop for multi-functional network peripheral sharing and the number of applications is practically endless. | | | Features: | |
• New palm-sized USB Net ShareStation enables an external hard drive, flash drive, memory card reader, USB webcam, USB speaker, or USB Multi-Function Printer (MFP) to be shared on a network
• With the versatility afforded by the USB Share Station, users can now enjoy their favorite multimedia content stored on their computer from anywhere in their home or office
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 0.2 inches | | Product Width:
| 0.22 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.1 inches | | Package Length:
| 6.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 2 reviews |
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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Be careful - it's for share, but one person at a timeJul 24, 2008
By Fabio Luzo Alves
"Fabio"
Hi, I purchased the GUIP201 to solve my home network problems: to be able to access over the home net both printer and scanner and also to access the external HD.
The installation is easy but so you have some surprises: I did not see on any specs that this works for one person at a time. I mean: one person is using the printer, e. g., the others cannot use. First this one that is using needs to disconnect and so the others can use. So, is to share, but not as a printer server.
Second issue: the external HD is not working. Tried already on 2 computers, Vista and XP, and no way to access the external HD.
I tried today to get some support from Iogear but did not solve it.
Keep trying...
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Works fine on real machines, but may not work on virtual onesMar 29, 2009
By WE reviewed
"Stuff"
The GUIP201 USB Net Share Station allows USB devices to be used without directly being attached to the computer. It can share devices in the sense that different computers can connect to the same device, but not at the same time. This is NOT a file/print server, as you cannot send print jobs to it or request files from it. Being so, it can connect any kind of USB device. It just passes the data to the computer and let its USB drivers handle it.
I tried to apply this concept to a virtual machine, since the USB device cannot be directly connected to it. When I installed the driver in the virtual machine (running in Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, also on VPC2007, the guest OS is Windows 2000), it would refuse to load. The included application to connect to the device server sees my device, and I can even connect to the device server's web interface, but I couldn't connect to the USB device itself. However, installing the driver on a computer directly (also running Windows 2000) works fine. I could do everything as advertised (I tried connecting a USB joystick, and it picks it up; but not that I'm going to use a joystick remotely ;). I suspect it's because MSVPC doesn't support USB devices at all, not that it just doesn't connect to the host system. That's just my guess, though. Will try on other virtual machines.
The included driver and application to connect to the server is Windows 2000+ only. I'll see if I can run a Linux host, but Windows guest, with VirtualBox, but looks like it supports connecting USB to guest already.
For now, this is useless for me for my purposes.
The application to connect to the share server only searches the local subnet. I have 2 levels of routers, and connecting it to the farther one would cause the device server to not show up. But there're ways to get around that, although it will require some networking knowledge.
Mine came with a 5V 2A AC adapter. Runs warm, but not hot.
The device is quite small, around the size of a 4-port USB hub. Connecting it to just the power cable and an Ethernet cable could easily cause it to move around. Need a paperweight on it or something. Not a real con, since it's good they can fit something like this in such a compact package.
It's advertised that it can handle 4 devices if attaching an additional hub. Haven't tried it, but the web UI shows 4 slots. I don't expect that to be too useful anyway unless they're mostly USB 1.1 devices or if only 1 device will be active at a time, because the bandwidth bottleneck will probably be the 100Mbit/s Ethernet connection, which already cuts the 480Mbit/s USB 2.0 theoretical max speed, and more devices mean more contention for that bandwidth.
Works like those USB cables where you connect a Ethernet cable to extend the range with the addition of software switching so you can reconnect to several/another USB device without walking over and replugging stuff. This costs about the same for me, and this could go much further if connecting through several switches (not routers it it causes the subnet to change). Could go through walls too if using wireless bridges. Cost a bit of power though, if this is the only thing you're using on the network, and may have bandwidth issues, unlike the extender.
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