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BTW, the specs say it works on a 10/100Mb/s, but it does NOT work at 10Mb/s, must be on a 100Mb circuit. Terrific little product - works like a champ, easy to set up. Just don't try to call support; they don't know JACK. I now have 8 of these at a client and not one has gone down in over a month. I'm buying two more today.
I've had this product for three years, and have not had a single issue with it. The challenges I've faced were easily fixed using the utilities on the installation CD, and website. Unfortunately, my current printers only have USB ports, and I've recently retired it. But I would give it five stars for the quality, durability, and length of service that I've received.
Five stars for the D-Link. Never worked as I assumed it would. Windows driver program seemed like it hadn't been updated since Windows 98 or something.Could never get it to work from Windows or as a general network printer for non-Windows machines.I returned it and bought the D-Link DP-301+ and that device worked just as you would expect. Every computer in the house can print to it and it has a web interface for configuration. Very slick.
The newer firmware on the v2 hardware is not able to be used on v1 servers, so it appears I am stuck. The PS101 v2 print server was fine, but the apparently older hardware version v1 with firmware 6026 lost all of the settings.
They have been pretty easy to setup. Since I did not want to install the supplied configuration software, I had to look at my DHCP server to figure out what the IP's were.
I just bought 2 Netgear PS 101 mini print servers. I unplugged the PS101's and installed them on their respective new printers.
Once logged in I changed the IPs and other settings to my liking. Worked great.
No real big hassle to reconfigure, ONCE, but I dont want to have this happen repeatedly. Works great otherwise.I am printing to a laser printer and dot matrix printer using the net use function in a dos window under Win2k + WinXP.
Yup, it worked. Set up is easy if you don't try anything fancy.
Dlink DPR-1260. I wanted to use an up to date wireless print server, i.e.
Make sure you check the printer compatibility list. Alas my medium format HP1000c printer is too old and too expensive to replace.
This is the only network parallel port print server solution I could find. I did set it up using DHCP instead of a fixed address just to see if I could do it.
Never thought printing a test page could be so exciting.
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