Why can't porter cable just work out the bugs?
931577
It's a great saw. I have had three. It's shape and size let's it do what other saws won't. BUT they all had the same issues. If you want the saw to cut square you better set it to about 4 degrees on their calibration scale. And their stop screw will fall out. It's not long enough when you try to use it to square the base. And the base bends like crazy. How about a nice magnesium base on the saw? And lastly the metal case they used to come with. All of mine had the hinges fall off. How about having I come complete with a nice plastic case. Better yet .... Come out with an Anniversary Edition where they address these issues. They would sell a lot of saws.
3278231
This device works pretty well at sending the cable signal between two rooms - two walls, one floor up.  However, I have struggled for weeks now to get the remote signal to transmit.  It just won't, and I'm pretty competent at setting up electronics.  After considerable study, no configuration of the components that I can come up with will work.

Any and all advice on this is welcome.  Somebody PLEASE wave their magic wand.
4104089
It's buggy.. Like it won't work for a millisecond then works again.
2727273
I have a BN200 which I use for home projects (light use). It has been useful but does not work now. Why would you do an overhaul (assuming the overhaul actually is a fix) when the kit is over $50 and an new Hitachi is $59? From the looks of what is in the overhaul kit I don't see why the kit should be this expensive. No more Porter Cable tools.
3140738
I really wanted to like this product, and when it works it is remarkably adept at transcribing, but the ceaseless bugs (including not being compatible with Microsoft Word for Mac) just got the better of me. In doing a bit of research, most of these issues have been well known for some time, but have not been effectively  addressed. In the end, it proved to be more of a nuisance than a help, and the time involved in trying to work around bugs pretty much balanced out the time saved in dictation.  I'm feeling a bit offended that Nuance would put out a product in such a state as this.
2308765
I've always admired the Porter Cable build and this is no exception.  It is a great saw, but definitely invest in better blades.  I couldn't give it five stars because changing the blade is somewhat of a hassle.  Installing the blade, no problem.  Try to take the blade out, problem!!
Also, Porter Cable needs to offer a better warranty.  The fact that they only offer a 1 year warranty concerns me.  To me, it means that they are not confident in their product.  Milwaukee on the other hand, offers a LIFETIME warranty.
2631845
To be fair, I haven't run the machine yet. I've been trying for the last 30 minutes to get the tubing into the two pieces. One of the pieces is bent/damaged, so no idea how I'll get the hose in it. The other piece isn't quite big enough to get the hose in it. I've followed directions. I'm really good with home projects, so this one has me frustrated. I'll be contacting the manufacturer about a new part. I'll come back and edit if I get it running properly.
1989798
We still have not been able to utilize the product as it is supposed to be designed to operate.  We have 4 seperate computers we wish to assign a cable signal to. It
has been over one month since purchase and we are expecting a replacement from Ceton because we believe the unit is defective.  That should arrive next Wednesday.  The most difficult part of the setting up process is when things don't work as expected and it is necessary to contact the company.  All instructions have to be done by email.  Apparently, they have no phone service department.  It is a frustrating experience getting information back and forth.
1499933
I use the wrench on a router table with porterc cable router.
The opening is being done from top of table!
Those wrenches are almost for a single use, poor quality and disappointing, mainly because its branded porter cable. One might think it is the appropriate wrench for the porter cable router. Well NO.
The promise of special alloys does not meet any reality; the wrench becomes rounded loosing grip after very short time 2-3 times!!

I bought an ordinary wrench TEKTON 21621 1-1/8-Inch Combination Wrench, and it works on the router much better, smooth and easy, having also a better leverage for opening and closing and a much better grip.
2011611
The company that I work for has all ways used the porter cable routers for our production work. This router is lite weight and last a long time. We use our routers on a daily bases.
4279288
Great saw, but the  height adjustment lever and the bevel adjustment lever were missing the wave washer that goes under the E-clip that holds the adjustment lever on so the levers are loose and rattle. Porter Cable has been making great tools for the last few years and I own Their 20 volt drill, impact, reciprocating saw, jig saw, and their corded tools, planer and orbital sander so I was disappointed when I see quality control missing things like this, also all four screws that hold the handle together were so loose there was an 1/8" gap on the top of the handle.
270962
Bought a new one after the old one broken. It didn't work. Believe I am a handy man with good metal tools, but It still took me 2 hours to make it work. The previous one worked fine and new one doesn't. It's not consistent. Good luck to the new buyers.
2255867
I'd love for this to work but I've sliced the rubber band and getting a clean cut is nigh impossible.  Great idea, poor implementation.  I don't mind investing the time but after 20 bottles it'd be nice to at least get one good cut.
4429617
They should send this base to me, and everyone else who bought the original version of it with the router! Just read my Amazon review of the Porter Cable 894PK router with plunge and fixed base from over a year ago. The original plunge base, which this replaces, was absolute JUNK. They copied the best features of the Dewalt base and released this as a replacement for the defective one they sold me two years ago.

I saw this new base at the AWFS woodworking show in Las Vegas last month, and it was an excellent plunge base. It solved all the problems (like rocking from side to side, and sticking)that plagued the original plunge base for this router, and added the dust collection feature. The photo in this Amazon page is NOT the new base. It is a photo of the defective old model that this version replaces. The new 8931 base has a large dust collection port in one of the plunge tubes, very much like the Dewalt model. I would like to have it, but why should I have to buy the replacement for the the defective base they already sold me? At the very least, they should give all the existing customers who shelled out hard earned money for the defective older base a discount coupon towards the purchase of this replacement.
4663301
I'm in the "had to send it back" camp.  I've worked with firewall/NAT/router/modem products for over a decade and used Linksys products in particular for most of that same time.  After seeing several positive commercial reviews (e.g. CNET) for WRT1900ACS, I purchased this.  Setup is not difficult (as these devices go).  But, with a large family and over 20 devices, we could not take the random rebooting that occurred multiple times per day.  It's back in the box being returned.  Yes, the firmware was up to date and, yes, the checkbox was set to automatically update.  There is either a design flaw in the hardware that the firmware cannot account for, or the developers have never taken the the time to find and fix the firmware issue.  According to several other consumer reviews, this has been a problem since WRT1900AC and Linksys still hasn't fixed it.  Back it goes.
4206269
I am going to guess that the machine works fine, but I haven't been able to get it to "works".  After well over 6 hours of time, I can't use any machine functionality.  After 4 hours I was able to print wirelessly from one computer, but after printing 3-4 times over the course of 3 days,  I lost that functionality and am now trying to troubleshoot my wireless connection to the machine.
A summary of problems:
1. I wasn't warned up front about the amount of time it would take to set-up the machine hardware, install software, get the network connection to work, then go through the process of learning even the most basic features of all the functions.  My expectation was that I could have this set-up an functioning in 1 hour, I'm at 6 and it isn't functioning and all I have tried is printing.  While I am not a technical wizard, I am going to guess for a consumer or a sole proprietor I rank in the top 20% for technical knowledge of hardware and networks.
2. Consistent with the above, the documentation looks like it assumes that the person setting up the machine has some pretty good networking knowledge.  The instructions don't separate a "corporate install" from a "consumer/sole proprietor" install.
3. The documentation is some of the worse I have ever seen in my life.  The machine inherently has some complexity, due to all the functionality.  Brother makes it more complex by cramming instructions for 4 different models in the same instructions. While I was trying to troubleshoot the lost network connection, I had to look closely at which model the instruction solution was describing.
4. There is quit a bit of documentation that is provided, yet it references online documentation quit a bit also.  It seems that rather than splitting the documentation between the hard copy an the network, all the critical parts should be available by paper or alternatively, other than the quick start all the documentation should only available online (which has its own set of problems). The split documentation didn't work for me.
5. When I installed the standard software pack, it uninstalled a working version of PDF Convertor software and installed PaperPort.  I am going to guess there was a splash screen telling about this change somewhere.  To the best of my knowledge I haven't experienced this sort of modification in the past without more emphasis on the change being made, so I was unhappy with the "surprise".  So now I am not only trying to learn the hardware, I have to learn the software installed for non-hardware functions or try to reinstall my PDF Convertor software.  I am guessing each software has the same functionality, but this is adding unnecessary time and frustration to the start-up process.
6. The Brother Website is a joke.  They want me watch their videos rather than answering specific questions.
7. In Brother's defense I have not tried to contact their "Help Desk".  Based on what I have seen so far, I won't be able to speak to a real person until I have sat through long automatic attendants that won't give me a easy course to address my specific concerns, will be confusing, and will make me pay a penalty of long waits to actually speak to a person.  I'll probably have to keep myself from throwing up, because at some point in automated attendant jail, they  will tell me how important I am as a customer.
I am going to continue to slog my way through this start-up and at some point may end up appreciating a machine that many assert is a quality tool. I am assuming that this will occur prior to me taking a sledge hammer to the device and  going to a simple plugged in printer for small printing jobs, Kinkos for large jobs and copying,  and a page fed scanner (like ScanSnap) for scanning.  If I do grow beyond a sole proprietor, I may make a point of keeping Brother off my vendor list just as a matter of principal.
1928854
Wasted a lot of time trying and was finally told by tech support that the issue was with my Comcast provided router/modem. It seems to be a common issue, so I'm not sure why they didn't tell me that sooner.

There aren't that many cable networks any longer, so selling a product that doesn't support the provided router/modem of one of the major cable providers seems a little goofy to me. At least state that it's not supported before I waste hours of time trying to figure it out.