Belkin F6C550-AVR 550VA Battery Backup with Surge Protection
by Belkin Inc.
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Customer Review: Does what it is supposed to do, but the software is terrible
Summary: 4 Stars
I live in a rural area where the power outages are fairly frequent during bad weather. I got two of these devices about a year and a half ago: one for my dad, who has an iMac in his home office, and one for my own Mac mini and TV. Both work fine and have saved our computers from the power outages. My only complaint is that the software that came with he UPSs for monitoring is nearly unusable, especially for people running OSX. When we received the UPSs it came with a disc witht he various installers on it, and the version of Bulldog (the software) on the disc was 2.5.0.2. I thought that the might have updated the software since then, so immediately before writing this review (Aug 22nd, 2010) I checked their website, and after registering the product etc. the only version they have is 2.3.0.06. Why the disc I got more than a year ago has more recent software than the website is beyond me. Sure enough, after downloading and installing that version, it wouldn't connect to the 2.5.0.2 client at all. Anyway, the software isn't really necessary for the UPS to do what it needs to do, so it isn't that bad.
one thing I thought I could do to help was to copy all of the installers from the disc, delete the non-Mac, Linux, and PC ones, compress the items into a .zip and put that file up on my mediafire page here(about 60MB download, just extract the files): [...]
Customer Review: Catchy title for a UPS?
Summary: 4 Stars
There is much to say here good or bad.This is not a exciting product to have or use.
I bought this product to provide an uniteruppted power source to my cordless phone, and to my router.
I am not using it as a UPS for my computer so I do not know how well it works for that purpose.
My hope is that the product will keep me and my family connected for a few hours during a power outage. (I will use my battery powered laptop as my computer.)
The device installed easily and tested flawlessly. As I said earlier I did not use any of the supplied software to monitor my computer for a power outage and switch over, standby, or hibernate. So I do not know how well or even if that software works at all.
Customer Review: Okay
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this Belkin Battery Backup after a power failure disaster was narrowly averted by MS Word's AutoRecovery feature. It's worked fine at warding off power failures since, I haven't really tested how well it does what it's supposed to do.
I do have some comments on usability. My wife finds the necessity to press and hold the power switch for several seconds counter-intuitive.
I would like the non-battery backup outlets to be controlled by the switch so I could shut everything down for power conservation with one step.
Customer Review: Belkin Serves Its Purpose
Summary: 4 Stars
The Belkin is very compact (it fits on my desk behind the thin screen monitor). Has four protected outlets and 2 regular ones. I have every outlet filled and our electric has gone out a few times including quick "hits" that can cause surges. My computer equipment remains in good condition and up and running. The Belkin beeps when the power is out to let me know it is working and I can manually stop this if I like. I am very pleased with this purchase.Customer Review: BullDog Problem
Summary: 4 Stars
So far the product is great except the accopany software Bulldog. If your OS is Windows XP, go to this website to download the new drive:
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Otherwise, the Bulldog does not work on my XP Pro.
After I install the new drive, everything just works find.