[Ti] Netgear vs. Airport

[Victor Eijkhout]

>What I am wondering about are the features. For instance, does any one know
>if USB printer sharing is available on the Netgear? AppleTalk apparently is,
>but I will be purchasing a new USB printer soon, and might want to print to
>it wirelessly. Any other glaring differences?

I have a non-Apple wireless basestation. Some of the features you 
want to look out for:

-- does it have a serial port so that you can connect over modem in 
case of emergency
-- does it have ether ports out

The new Apples support 802.11g, so that's going to be more expensive 
than other brands which still only do 802.11b. But if you only have 
"old" macs with 11b you don't need it.

USB printer sharing: that works fine independent of the router, I 
think. I have a USB printer on my desktop Mac, enable Printer 
Sharing, and I print on it from my laptop wirelessly.
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Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu>
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