The instrument-making externally a very stable and high-quality impression, the white has some of the Apple Mac Books and other precious Apple equipment. On one side are the 2 ports with USB 2.0 HiSpeed (480Mbit), on the other, the 1000 Mbit / Gigabit interface and the power supply.
The PSU has one of the newest EU corresponding efficiency and is inserted on the page.
The software is simple and functional. The CD has an autorun, it opens a menu where you between "Device Server Setup" -. The establishment of the SX-3000GB, the "Application Installation" - can select installation of SX-VL, and the manual
The configuration is very simple, the SX-3000GB gets via DHCP already an IP from the router, then you need quasi not be configured. Otherwise, it is also possible to configure a static IP on the setup. That was it almost already.
This step should only be made once, the device is then configured.
Next - and this must be done on all clients - must be installed SX-VL. The software which runs the virtual USB port on the system. This software is available for many operating systems unspeakably, unique among competitors, Mac OS, and server operating systems from Microsoft, 32 and 64 bit.
Once that is done, and the software is started, it searches the network for device servers and lists all found USB device on, it just has to "connect" to be clicked and already reported in Windows device manager "found new hardware", the device is then so available, as if it might be better connected locally.
Supported hardware there are plenty, printers, scanners, USB sticks, partially Webcams via USB dongles and software protection modules.
Although it can always connect only one user at the same time the device, but otherwise it looks the USB protocol also not before. But one can also integrate USB devices so in virtual environments such as VMWare ESX Server, Hyper-V.
All in all, the improvement with 2 ports, Gigabit Ethernet and reliable software a strong improvement yu the already excellent device servers SX-1000U and SX-2000U2. It will save you a USB hub and has a higher data throughput.
I can only recommend the device, it provides me a USB hard drive and a Canon printer status monitor on the network.
