Far as I can tell the unit works just fine. I have it connecting my home office and residential network and works as intended. Didn’t want to spend the money for the managed switch as I don’t need it yet so for the price it works great.

Far as I can tell the unit works just fine. I have it connecting my home office and residential network and works as intended. Didn’t want to spend the money for the managed switch as I don’t need it yet so for the price it works great.

Having tried a number of different wireless network adapters that connect to the computer via the USB port I have found that this type of device is much better. It is more reliable; and faster to give you a connection when logging into Windows. This adapter frees you from problems with sleep mode, screen savers, etc. that USB type adapters may have. If you use Linux, Mac OS, etc. this device is a nice solution as well.

Having tried a number of different wireless network adapters that connect to the computer via the USB port I have found that this type of device is much better. It is more reliable; and faster to give you a connection when logging into Windows. This adapter frees you from problems with sleep mode, screen savers, etc. that USB type adapters may have. If you use Linux, Mac OS, etc. this device is a nice solution as well.

Having tried a number of different wireless network adapters that connect to the computer via the USB port I have found that this type of device is much better. It is more reliable; and faster to give you a connection when logging into Windows. This adapter frees you from problems with sleep mode, screen savers, etc. that USB type adapters may have. If you use Linux, Mac OS, etc. this device is a nice solution as well.

Having tried a number of different wireless network adapters that connect to the computer via the USB port I have found that this type of device is much better. It is more reliable; and faster to give you a connection when logging into Windows. This adapter frees you from problems with sleep mode, screen savers, etc. that USB type adapters may have. If you use Linux, Mac OS, etc. this device is a nice solution as well.

Having tried a number of different wireless network adapters that connect to the computer via the USB port I have found that this type of device is much better. It is more reliable; and faster to give you a connection when logging into Windows. This adapter frees you from problems with sleep mode, screen savers, etc. that USB type adapters may have. If you use Linux, Mac OS, etc. this device is a nice solution as well.

One huge issue with Adobe products (which I equate to Adobe shooting themselves in the foot), is their change from perpetual licenses to a subscription-only licensing model. This basically means that you can end up paying thousands of dollars in the long run to Adobe, only to have usage rights to your software suddenly removed when you stop paying the monthly fee. Thankfully, Corel has not gone that horrible route yet.

I gave Acronis 2011 five stars because it did what I needed it to do (and thankfully never gave me any issues). I installed Windows 8 on one of my PCs and went to the Acronis website to see if there was an upgrade to my 2011 edition of True Image. I saw that version 2013 is apparently compatible with Windows 8, but reading further I noticed that it now requires online activation.

The box version did NOT require online activation. I disabled my network card, placed the PowerDVD disc in the drive, installed, entered an activation key (which was accepted offline and without phoning home), launched the application and played a DVD movie without ever having to connect to the internet. That’s good! :)nnYes, as one other reviewer mentioned, there are a couple of services installed with this program. All you have to do though is disable them afterwards (either in Services or Run->msconfig).