Wireless Question

[Jim T.]

I want to set up my laptop for wireless. It would be great to have the
printer located at the router. I have no other computer.
Is there a good, reasonable, 802.11g combo wireless router and
printserver? Reviews of the only one I found (SMC) are really bad.

 

[Gerritjan]

I want to set up my laptop for wireless. It would be great to have the
printer located at the router. I have no other computer.
Is there a good, reasonable, 802.11g combo wireless router and
printserver? Reviews of the only one I found (SMC) are really bad.

Asus WL-500g.

 

[kony]

I want to set up my laptop for wireless. It would be great to have the
printer located at the router. I have no other computer.
Is there a good, reasonable, 802.11g combo wireless router and
printserver? Reviews of the only one I found (SMC) are really bad.

Frankly, I would get another computer and use it as the print server.
Laptops are easily damaged or stolen, and it's good to have another
system with hard drive for mass storage and backup purposes.

It need not be a large or expensive system... a Via Epia-style
all-in-one would be quiet, cool running, small and relatively
inexpensive compared to a modern high-performance box.


Dave

 

[Jim T.]

Frankly, I would get another computer and use it as the print server.
Laptops are easily damaged or stolen, and it's good to have another
system with hard drive for mass storage and backup purposes.

It need not be a large or expensive system... a Via Epia-style
all-in-one would be quiet, cool running, small and relatively
inexpensive compared to a modern high-performance box.


Dave

I'm sure that that is sound advice. Unfortunately I gave away my big
old homegrown when I moved to smaller quarters. Maybe I could pick up
one used and cheap.

 

[Todd H.]

I want to set up my laptop for wireless. It would be great to have the
printer located at the router. I have no other computer.
Is there a good, reasonable, 802.11g combo wireless router and
printserver? Reviews of the only one I found (SMC) are really bad.

I have an SMC Barricade router that I'm happy with that includes the
printer port. Inexpensive too. Also has a serial port for doing
fallback to a dialup connection if your broadband goes down...which is
kinda cool (though I've never been compelled to use it).

You can always get a separate wireless bridge to attach to that
router.

The benefit of a dedicated appliance that includes a print server is
that you don't have the noise, heat, and electricity use associated
with a full PC doing it for you. And one less friggin Windows machine
to maintain with the patch of the month club and virus
updates/licensing is sanity everyone should want to have.

Best Regards,