A great temporary solution if you do not want to spend several hundred dollars for a complete NAS / can. Our ext. Hard drive was previously connected to a Fritz box. Since Telekom so obvious can not handle, a telecom router had mains. However, this has no connection for an external USB connection. To continue to give my wife the opportunity to choose between your desktop PC and the laptop exchange data, so must her a quick solution. This small device was completely to bring into the network easily, and with the included mini-CD was on Wind ... 7 installation Ruck-Zuck done. Function, right there, almost self-explanatory. For network geeks like me: Even the redirect if you do not want to use DHCP, totally easy to work. Something made the problems now under Win XP .... Even after upgrading to SP3 was indeed the Server appears in his program, as well as a USB device, a data exchange work However not. By means of support, the problem could be eingegrentzt on too strict firewall settings. CONCLUSION: PRO: Very simple connection to the network, Very easy to install the necessary software, mostly Intuitive handling, reading the manual is nevertheless important because important Standing instructions therein. CONTRAINDICATIONS: There can only access a computer running on connected devices when several computers it would like to exercise, always a log out before the next can Login. No Linux support or function !! This is no longer appropriate.