Slow Printing on home XP network

[Jim]

I have 2 XP machines networked with a Linksys router.
When I copy files between machines it is over 10MB, but
within the last three weeks printing across the network
travels at about 4 packets per second - a scanned
document may take an hour to print through the network
(fast locally). The only changes have been Microsoft
updates and I loaded Digital Image Suite on one of the
machines...can anyone help? Is there something specific
to spooled data transport that is differn't than other
traffic?

 

[Edward Johnson]

I'm having similar problems printing on my D-Link
network. My wife's Dell laptop printed 5-10 times faster
with Windows 98 than it does now on XP. My new Dell
laptop prints incredibly slow to our HP G85. (Both
laptops are using a wireless network card.) A Dell
desktop PC we have in the house running W2k prints faster
than these other two machines.

I contacted HP support by e-mail and they told me they do
not recommend running their G85 across a wireless
network. Of course, it has been running flawlessly until
I installed XP, but I didn't take up that point with them
yet.

Anyone out there have any ideas for us? Thanks!