Customer Reviews

ASUS USB CrossLink Cable

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I am somewhat reluctant to fault a product that may work perfectly for everyone else. However this thing is advertised to be painless, but apparently not so for me.

I have a new Win7 ASUS netbook which I intended to bring in a few things from a laptop (Vista) as well as the ability to copy straight from the laptop optical drive etc. While there are many other ways to accomplish this, I thought this seemed a pretty simple solution to load and maintain the netbook. After several joyless hours, I have given up. I will simply use flash memory, an external hard drive, etc. to transfer the files I want.

I simply wasn't able to get the two computers to recognize each other no matter what I tried. There doesn't seem to be any "troubleshooting" hints included with the product, (in the event that things didn't go so well).

Hopefully somebody has had a better experience and can give a better review because it certainly seems like a worthwhile product.

ETA March 19, 2010.... After stumbling onto a button tucked into the netbook software that switched between "allow/not allow" ad hoc networks, and switching to "allow", I decided to try the hookup once again. I can't honestly say whether that was the fix, or I simply held my mouth right this time, but after considerable tweaking and several encouraging false starts I was able to get things working pretty well.

It worked well enough in fact that I changed from one star to four. Had it not required so much tweaking to stumble on the correct operating settings even after the allow "fix" on the computer itself, I probably would rate it five. However since one of it's major selling points is ease of use, in my opinion that should include the "learning curve" which I found to be fairly steep, with quite a bit of hit and miss to get it all going well.

But then again maybe I'm just a slow learner.

I bought an Asus netbook and bought this to transfer files from my old laptop. I had just finished transferring everything and was checking around the drive to make sure I didn't miss anything, when suddenly the software window disappeared. I tried everything - reconnecting it to both computers, in different variations, etc etc. Turns out the flash drive attachment, where the software is located, died, and the cable is useless now. They don't even list the Crosslink on their website's tech support section. I'm not sure if it was there before or if it's never been there at all. So I will be looking for a different brand that makes a similar product after this. Asus is great for computers and motherboards, but apparently not so great at flash drive technology.

Nice, simple and easy to use. It makes my transfers from my computers easy, no need to look for an external HDD to carry out transfer, just plug one end in one computer and the other in the next and off you go. In addition to the crosslink is the built in 2 GB flash to add more use to it. Highly recommended.

I recently bought an ASUS UL30VT laptop and since it didn't come with a CD drive, I bought this Crosslink Cable as an easy way to not only transfer info from PC to PC, but also to share another PC's disk drive. Sounds fantastic in theory, but it is hampered by the laggy and inconsistent experience afforded by the software. It seems to be a crap shoot when I can get the PC to PC connection to work correctly.

That said, if you want to use it as just a USB drive, it seems to be great for that, although at 2gb, you can get a little more bang for your buck if that's what you're looking for.

I love ASUS in general and think they are an innovative, customer service oriented company, but they need to iron out the kinks with this one. 3 out of 5 stars for effort.

When it comes to have a desktop pc and a netbook for example, you will enjoy this crosslink cable for sure. Sharing your desktop's pc resources: dvd and harddrive mainly, will make things easier.

This is a fantastic solution to linking my laptop and desktop and making sure the folders are in sync, when it is not possible for me to network them (one work, one personal computer).

This product worked exactly as it said it would. Hook it up to 2 computers and exchange data. Very cool since I bought a new laptop without an optical drive. Highly recommend it!

I purchased this ASUS CROSS LINK CABLE to move files from
my old VISTA PC to my new ASUS laptop. When you plug the
cable into a PC, it runs software that is on the flash element
on the cable that opens a 'Cross Link' program on both PCs
that allow you to copy files or synch files between the PCs.

My Avira Premium security suite blocked the
Autorun feature of the cable, and identified a file on the
ASUS flash element as EXPLORER.EXE as virus W32/vb.bu

I did an internet search on this virus, and it came up in
various Christmas 2007 - January 2008 stories about infected
USB Picture frames (many sold by Best Buy, which did a recall)
as having this bug, identified as a trojan.

I called ASUS techs (510) 818 4877 who checked a
cable off the shelf, and informed me their antivirus didn't
see any virus, and he didn't see EXPLORER.EXE in the flash.

At his advice, I did a format of the ASUS flash drive element and
downloaded the ASUS CROSS LINK SOFTWARE from the official ASUS site.
[...]I unzipped the file crosslink.zip into a subdirectory, getting well over 400 files.

I didn't trust the ASUS download so I checked that new subdirectory for viruses.
1. My Avira antivirus check on all these files came up "ok".
2. I ran a manual scan using MalwareBytes on these files - OK.
3. I ran a manual scan using PREVX [...] on these files, and TWO of the DLL files came up infected:
GODB.DLL
GORULE.DLL

I then uploaded these files to [...] for another opinion.
The GODB.DLL was identified as malware: Trend Micro PAK_Generic.001
The GORULE.DLL was re-identified by PREVX as 'medium risk' malware.
I suspect these may be polymorphic packed viruses that created the
EXPLORER.EXE on my flash drive --- but I can't be sure.

Hopefully, ASUS will do a full investigation of this problem.
In the meantime: don't buy this product and run any download
from the ASUS site through several antivirus products before
trusting them.

THIS PIECE OF JUNK DON'T WORK AND I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SEND IT WITHOUT PAYING SHIPPING ... IT SUPPOSED TO ALLOW YOU TO TRANSFER FILES WITH A ROM BASED CHIP SOFTWARE ... THE PIECE OF S**** DONT WORK THEY WAY IT READS IN THE DESCRIPTION ITS WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY

Interesante el concepto pero al rato de darle utilidad es super decepcionante saber que no sirve de mucho, con un buen disco duro externo y USB 3 no necesitas nada mas para pasar datos.