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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Our customers testimonials

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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How SmarterX differs from parallel auto switch devices used for sharing printers?

The only common thing between the two is the similarity in looks. However, from a functionality point of view they are a world apart. Parallel auto switch devices such as Belkin F1U115E is basically a data switch with a preset timer. These devices are produced to share a printer manually or automatically but not a dongle. SmarterX is a sophisticated device with built in data monitoring and protocol analysing tools, it uses a proprietary multilevel arbitration scheme to route data intelligently from multiple machines to the dongle and vice versa.

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Can I attach and switch more than one dongle between multiple machines?

Yes, 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.

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Does SmarterX need an external power supply?

No, SmarterX design 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.

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Does SmarterX support USB Dongle?

A two port USB version of SmarterX is currently available for evaluation and purchase. A three and four port versions of the dvice will be available early next year.

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Can I still use my parallel port printer?

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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How do I connect up SmarterX-2?

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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