Silex DS-600-US Device Server - 2 Ports - 10/100 MB LAN, Gige, USB2.0, USB3.0

We wanted to remote a webcam to a computer which is running OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) in order to stream to Facebook Live. First we tried a Startech USB to Ethernet converter. It did send video and audio, but only worked well at lower resolutions. The Startech device only did USB 2, and managed a webcam, but we had to have full HD resolution. Additionally, the Startech device had to be on the same VLAN (subnet) as the computer to which it was connecting, even though you could specify the IP address of the device. Wouldn't traverse subnets.On the other hand, the Silex DS-600 converter has a USB 3 port, and when we connect the same camera through it, we are able to get full HD from our webcam (a Logitech camera) to the client computer, and it behaves 100%. No drop-outs, no problems. Plus, we found that we could traverse subnets with the Silex, which is a bonus for us. The Silex also has a second USB port (albeit USB 2.0), which is great for adding other devices such as a USB microphone. This was tested and works well.Note that both products did bring in video to OSB without complaint, as if they webcam were local to the computer. We had tried some IP cameras for this, but couldn't get them to work for this application.The Silex DS-600 gets a big thumbs up from us!

Unit works great on the local network. Was hoping the unit could be used on an outside network and have a port to forward to.

Will only support Fat32 if you need it to act as a true Network attached storage device (why else would you but this?). The device is sold under the pretense that you hook up a USB device (like a HDD in a caddie, or a fireproof backup drive, etc..) and you can access it via an IP address like \\IP\share name What they don't tell you is that while you can do this you can only write to this device if the device is formatted as FAT32 While this may be ok for some applications you cannot use FAT32 to store any file that is over 4gb in size, so forget using it to store backups or any large files, movies, etc..Worse they have s/w you can run on a computer or server but that by nature defeats the purpose and need of USB to IP

Pro: Configuration and client software solid, consistent and easy to understand. You will actually get product support if you contact Silex, and actually somebody who can answer technical questions. Device allows multiple computers on the LAN to share any of our USB software key, and also allowed me to configure misc. hardware computer and communications equipment (Motorola XPR4550 radio, XPR/SLR repeaters, etc., except Hytera repeaters).Con: I wanted to place some at remote offices that are connected via Internet, through a local and remote firewalls. While it allowed to to log into the device for configuration, USB hardware keys (and likely everything else) would not be recognized by the desktop app (received a network error). Even after forwarding all the ports that Silex indicated it uses on the LAN. However, Silex never committed that this would work - I just wanted to verify this. It will work over a bridged VPN connection where both networks share a broadcast domain. As of Oct 2018, no off the shelf device exists to do this except by using a RasberryPI and VirtualHere CloudHub. This product appears just as solid as Silex...As you have to home-brew an internet-capable device, Silex might consider modifying their protocol to allow this.

My intended application for the DS 600 was to take a serial port with a serial to USB converter and a USB port on an amateur radio transceiver and make them available to any PC on my local area network. The DS 600 works very well indeed in this role. I was able to connect to the two ports and have multiple PC software programs access these ports with no problem just as if they were plugged directly into the PC’s USB ports. To summarize, word the DS 600 does exactly what I was hoping it was going to do. I even tried plugging in a USB hub and see if I could connect more USB devices via the DS 600. That seem to work OK as well.

I saw mentions it might be slow with a scanner, especially the R40. I did not notice any appreciable drop in scan rate when using this. Configuration was to a network switch to which the PC used as well. I used this to be able to scan from a virtual machine for which sharing USB on the host is not possible.

Product installed just fine and am able to see thumbdrives on all my networked computers, but my portable hard drive isn't recognized. Two emails to customer service and now reply - last message sent over a month ago. Wouldn't recommend this device if you want to share your portable hard drive across the network and certainly don't expect any help from the company.

This not nearly as fast as they might say. My camera loads slowly using this and disconnects. If I can not improve this I will be returning it. I do like the GUI as it is simple and easy to use. Shame the connection is not stable and slow.