1) We have a single CAD/CAM system and I am the main user of the program. I have used your device successfuly to share my dongle with another light user. This has stopped him unplugging my dongle every time he wanted to use the program. This smart device has helped both of us.
2) Thanks to the SmarterX. It has saved us lots of fumbling around under the desk. I am extremely pleased with it.
3) I run a small business in Birmingham and have 2 seats CAD/CAM program installed on two computers at work. I often work at home after leaving work. This was meant to take one of our dongles with me every day when finished work and remember to bring it back to work the next day. Not anymore, thanks to your device. I have now kept one of our dongle at home and have used your device to share the other dongle at work.
4) We purchased our CAD/CAM program several years ago which came with a dongle.
We needed an additional seat due to our increased workload. The company that we
purchased the CAD system from no longer supply dongles to clients. Fourtunately help was at hand and we have successfully used your device to gain an additional user to help us to overcome our workload.
5) A few years ago we purchased a two seats CAD/CAM systems with dongles. We lost one of our dongles two weeks ago. This had massive impact on our work. We desperately needed a solution. I am glad to say that we have successfully used your device to overcome this loss by sharing the remaining dongle. We have asked our software vendor for a replacement. The initial indications are that we most likely have to pay a full price for it.
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It is legal to use SmarterX to share a dongle (or dongles) between multiple machines providing the application licensed to a single user runs on one machine at the time (non-concurrently).
SmarterX is a legitimate product that gives you the choice of running your licensed program on more than one machine, either one machine at a time (non-concurrent) or several machines at the same time (concurrent).
What is significant about SmarterX is that it can be used legally and within the terms of your license agreement. For instance, if you have more than one dongle, concurrent sharing of anyone of your dongles using the device is legal and is with in the terms of your license agreement as long as the numbers of concurrent users do not exceed the number of dongles you have purchased.
Please note: You have the option to set the device to limit the number of concurrent users. For example, a 5-port device allowing you to share a dongle between 5 users can be set to limit the number of simultaneous users to 3 users if you own 3 dongles. If you have a single dongle (single user license) you can still use the device legally providing you choose to run your software on multiple computers non-concurrently and thus stay within the terms of your single user license agreement (non-concurrent means running your program on one machines at a time).
SmarterX is NOT intended as a means to defeat the main purpose of a hardware key (dongle), which is to provide protection against the menace of software piracy (illegal distribution and reproduction of software). The device is not a dongle emulator or a replacement for your dongle. It does not interfere with your software or your license file. It is only useful if it is used with your dongle and your legally purchased application software.
Please note: the purchase and use of SmarterX is legitimate and legal since it can be used legally and within the terms of your license agreement. This is contrary to possessing and using a "cracked" software (dongle free) which can never be justified to be legal. SmarterX is not a dongle emulator or dongle replacement. It can only be used in conjunction with your dongle and your licensed software that you have legally purchased.
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SmarterX works with both standard PCs running Windows or Unix and Apple Mac computers.
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Yes, you can part exchange your current 2/3 port device with a 3/5 port device if you wish. If your current device is purchased within the past two year you can part exchange it at the original price you paid for. You only pay the price difference.
If your device is older than two years a deal can be done.
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Yes, you can do it with the parallel port version of SmaretrX. You can attach (stack up) several parallel dongles of different make to SmarterX. Any user is able to run any one of the several dongle based application software on his/her machine automatically. For example: you only need a single SmarterX-2 unit to run several different dongle based applications on two machines.
A USB version shares a single dongle between multiple users. You can NOT use USB Hub to share more that one dongle. If you want to share 2 dongles between several computers you need purcase two SmartetX-USB units.
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No, the design of the paralell port version of SmarterX is based on ultra low power technology. It only needs micro-amps of current to operate. It is solely powered from the data lines of the PC parallel port. The USB version is powered by the USB port on the PC.
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Use USB over network software. Using this software USB devices connected to remote computers (in local network or internet) can be accessed as if are locally plugged in. This software is available form many vendors. We recommend to use the software from SysNucleus which is reasonably priced. The link to this site is:
http://www.sysnucleus.com/usbshare/
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A two ports, three ports and a five ports USB version of SmarterX are currently available for evaluation and purchase. We have recently released a wireless version of the five port USB device.
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Yes, SmarterX is transparent to a printer. That means you can connect your parallel port printer to the dongle attached to SmarterX and use it. Please note that SmarterX is not a printer sharing device. The user who has access to the dongle can use the printer attached to the back of the dongle.
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This is very straight forward. Before connecting your PCs to SmarterX-2 you need to do the following:
1- Install a copy of your application software on to a second PC. Use the same license file used to install the application on your original PC.
2- make sure that your application runs Ok with the dongle directly attached to parallel port of this second PC.
3- Connect both computers (use cables supplied) to SmarterX-2 ports labeled A and B (the order does not matter) and your dongle to the dongle port of SmarterX-2.
4- Switch on both PCs and you are ready to go.
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