[P1] Anyone running wireless print servers

[Tom Legare]

I'm running a D-Link DP311P wireless print server (available from Best 
Buy and many other places) on an HP LaserJet 4M.  My wireless network 
(if it matters) is on an original Apple Airport Base Station.  It is 
only slightly bigger than a deck of cards with a short antenna.

It plugs into the parallel port of the printer, you set the channel to 
something a few channels away from your Internet wireless channel (I 
use channel 1 on the printer server and 7 for my internet), and you're 
set to go.  For what it's worth, I share this printer wirelessly (and 
the Airport Base Station) with my iBook 500 and two Win2K laptops.  You 
can easily print from multiple laptops in our house, even from 
different OS's, at the same time.

The ONLY disadvantage I've found with this setup is that the printer is 
setup as an IP printer, so when I log into my company's VPN on my Win 
2K laptop, the wireless printer is not available.  Only a printer that 
is directly connected works in that situation.  I don't do VPN with my 
iBook so it's not an issue.

On my iBook I'm using OS 10.2.8.

Good luck,

Tom


On Saturday, February 14, 2004, at 02:57  PM, Keith Parker wrote:

> I just started looking into wireless print servers, and after an hour 
> or so I realized this list might be a better way to find out.  Has 
> anyone found a good model ?  Price is significant but not first 
> priority. Preferably set-up through a browser.
>
> TIA
>
> Parkerdude ;-]