If you value your computers, then get this!

Most people here have said it all. As an IT person, I cannot stress enough the importance of surge suppresors in conjunction with computing equipment. Computer components are very susceptible to electricity fluctuations or surges, and one too many will fry the internal components, rendering your computer a very expensive paperweight! Save yourself the hassle and get this: a simple, straightforward, wallet friendly solution.

Ordered this Dec 31, and got it Jan 4th! As always, Amazon delivers! Kudos to Amazon on this. One of the reasons why I keep on coming back and getting stuff, as they are very reliable.

good

not a bad picture, a bit of shadowing on my sony lcd tv, perfect for the price!

Poor

Bought this cable to use on a switch box between my 360 and PC. Tested the cable by directly connecting my PC to Monitor and the quality is very poor. Clear ghosting is visable on screen. If i switch back to the original cable that came with my monitor the image quality is perfect. AVOID.

Don't Buy This!!!!

I set this up as it showed on the disk but it wouldn't connect to the internet. So I rang their support line, but they didn't know what as wrong and couldn't help.

I sent it back and bought a netgear router. 20 minutes later both my computer and my wife's laptop were surfing the web.

amazing difference

I brought this cable out of hope that it would help the awful display problems I was having with my TFT monitor. But the difference is amazing - not only has it solved the problems I had but the display is now much brighter, colours more stunning. I cant believe it's the same TFT screen. Well worth the money -only wish I had brought one earlier.

Suberb!

Just arrived today. I had my laptop downstairs right by the phone socket but wanted it upstairs. I’d heard that having an extension could decrease your connection speed. My average connection speed by the phone was 6.9mb.

So I was a little nervous about getting a cable this long - but the price was right - so I gave it a go.

And I’m glad I did - I’m now upstairs, plugged in and surfing the net at a rate of 7.0mb!

What a a bargain piece of equipment.

Does what it says

It works brilliantly i never realised the need for rotating sockets untill i bought this, now i realise just how useful that they are. It works brilliantly cut out the power to my pc during the last storm we had! a great product i will definatly buy another for my hi-fi and TV.

ALMOST perfect power.

This thing is great, 8 Sockets, indication Lights, phone/Modem protection and even a cable tidy thing! But the on/off switch is just so easy to flick by accident. One day I cicked it unknowingly and my whole room turned off. Wasn't happy. So now I've taped it down so it won't happen again.

Overall, technically fabulous but needs a different power switch.

Failed to protect anything

I have had a couple of Belkin units, including this one, fail to protect my equipment. Once a PC just died one day, and I found burn marks on the motherboard PSU connector. The other time with this exact unit there was a lightning strike nearby, and the computer PSU was fried along with my monitor and HiFi amplifier.

Both times I tried to claim from Belkin on their warranty. They make it very hard, and you have to send them the damaged equipment. In both cases they at first refused to pay up, but eventually I got some compensation out of them. Nothing like the value of the items though, only their"second hand" value which for Belkin means car boot sale prices.

I now have a Tripp-Lite and touch wood have no had any problems.

Awful ghosting

I needed a longer monitor cable so ordered this one as Belkin in my experience have been good, but very disappointed with this cable. The ghosting is terrible.

Complete Peace of Mind

The mere word 'Belkin' to me represents quality. I had previously purchased from Amazon several Belkin products including USB2 PCI cards, USB Hubs and so on and so forth. Not a single item has ever let me down. When it arrives I load it or in this case plugged it into my 13amp power socket controlling my PC, and away it went. All in the background but giving me complete peace of mind.

In my home I already have electrical 'trip fuses' which were installed when my house was rewired some 10 years ago. So when, God forbid, lightening stikes, my trip fuses would undoubtebly 'trip out' and cut of any power supply. So far so good. What i did'nt have is an immediate cut off on the incoming telephone wire. This product for £ 5.22 gives me that protection, incl it's free P&P when tagged onto the end of a more expensive delivery.

I have a firewall in my computer, an anti virus program and password protection. What I could not stop however was my computer 'frying' and losing ALL my information.... (dread the thought!) in the event of a lightening stike. Well now that is taken care of as well. A super product which comes in differing 13amp formats, ie: a single out, multi outlets etc. Some with phone line protection and some without. For £5 quid ... what's that problem?

As for ordering. I clicked the relevant button here with Amazon yesterday at around 2pm and the unit was here with me today at 8.30am. Is that service or what!!

One small grouse however. I note that there is no reset button on the unit. As ALL the Belkin products have a full lifetime warrently.. yes that's right I have not mis-spelled anything, I can only ASSUME that if the unit 'trips out' it is either replaced or I have to send it back to Belkin for re-setting. That's the only reason, as yet still unclear, as to why I have only rated this unit with 4 stars.

SAFTY FIRST

THE BELKIN SURGE MASTER 6 DOES EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS.
I USE IT FOR MY COMPUTER,IT PROTECTS MY PC,SCANNER,PRINTER,MONITOR,+ ANY EXTRAS.IT ALSO PROTECTS PHONE TO MODEM.
I GIVE THIS 5 STARS.

Poor compatibility with Acer 19" monitor

I bought this to go with the excellent Acer AL1916WS 19" widescreen LCD monitor. It connects up OK (note: - the product picture is incorrect, it's a male-male cable, as correctly described in the technical details, not the female-male cable shown in the picture) and allows the monitor to display the standard resolutions. However, the Acer monitor really snaps into focus when you use its native resolution of 1440 x 900. I had this custom resolution running without any problem under XP using a Matrox G450 video card and a small Matrox utility that allows you to select almost any resolution with the G-series cards. Connect the Acer monitor up with this Belkin cable though, and the custom resolution is no longer available in Windows. Switch back to the Acer-supplied cable, and it is available again. I don't know if this has anything to do with the fact that there are only 14 pins out of 15 at either end on this cable (and other Belkin cables), but I had to return it for a refund.

Not bad..but

Using this cable I connected my PC to an LCD TV and the image quality was almost as good as on the monitor more than good enough to watch films on it, but still some slight quality loss

Good but my break your earphones cable

I got the adapter because I wanted to use my iPhone with high quality earphones I used to use for my iPod. But because of the recessed headphone jack they wouldn't fit properly. This adapter solves the problem, but it doesn't let you stop and start your music like the standard iPhone earphones. Worse though it is a relatively long and sturdy piece such that my earphone cable would bend right at the edge. Finally it broke and I could throw away an expensive earphone set.

What Can I Say?

Literally, what can I say!?

Home cinema? PC? If you've got any electrical device worth more than the cost of sorting out the insurance claim, get yourself one of these.

With £25,000 connected equipment LIFE TIME warranty, you never need to worry about a freakish lightning strike again, or any power interruption for that matter!

The SurgeMaster comes with six UK sockets (two of which can rotate to fit awkward size plugs) and two IN/OUT aerial coaxial inputs.

There's also two telephone inputs (again IN/OUT) but just to clarify these are not the 'modem' connection you be familiar with broadband. These are standard British Telephone connections (431A/631A).