Belkin Home Base Puts a Whole Lotta Network in a Tiny Box

Belkin's Home Base has just shown up on the scene to bring a whole lot of network to your network. If you need to play catch-up with Jones' this tiny wonder can leap frog you all the way up to today with style. The slick little white box has WPS, a push button for wireless joining to your home network with 802.11b/g/n, or you can opt for old school Ethernet. The four USB ports in the back are for printer and USB storage compatibility, and it's most simple ability is to allow wireless sharing of USB devices. It essentially combines the wireless capability, network USB sharing and streaming media serving.

Stepping past the ordinary, the Home Base can take your pedestrian USB-only printers, and turn them into wireless printers. Hook up a USB hard drive, and it's a NAS serving up storage for your network. Attached storage also enables the backup software. Now any device on your network can use Belkin's backup software, and start automated backups protecting your precious files. The Home Base will also take any media files you have, and can enable DLNA media streaming. DLNA is the preferred protocol for the XBox 360 and the PS3. Now you can really take advantage of your game console's media capabilities, and have downloaded music and movies anywhere you like. The Home base should be available soon for about $129 where Belkin devices are found.

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