Belkin F6C550-AVR 550VA Battery Backup with Surge Protection by Belkin Inc.
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Digital camera reviews of Belkin F6C550-AVR 550VA Battery Backup with Surge Protection
Digital camera 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.
Digital camera Review: Defective Product out of the Box.
Summary: 1 Stars
I ordered a Belkin product since I was replacing an old model which did
not have replaceble batteries.
When the product arrived and I opened the box I followed the instructions to first charge the unit. After 26 hours connected to a working outlet the unit did not operate so I returned the product and purchased a CYBERPOWER
unit which is working fine.
I also tried to order directly from the Belkin website but could not get the same product......not a good website!
I will not buy any Belkin products from now on.
Digital camera Review: Difficult to configure
Summary: 3 Stars
I sure hope this works as it comes out of the box because the software on the CD expects it to be connected to a network and has this really annoying Bulldog spash screen that slows down the computer as it comes up on you computer everytime you power up. I finally deleted the software since I couldn't figure out how to talk to the unit over my wireless network. Hopefully it's configured to protect my equipment straight out of the box because I can't check it for battery life or whether it's working or anything else. Must have been designed by a geek that has no concept of how an average 2 user family uses the product. APC wasn't any better.Digital camera 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): [...]
Digital camera Review: Easy 1-2-3 Setup
Summary: 5 Stars
I received this item from Amazon with free shippingon time, took it out of the box, hooked it up and followed directions to install the software. It took about 15 minutes and has been working fine, ever since. (about 6 weeks)