Looking for recommendations on above subject. eBay has a motorola wps870g for about $40.00 and there is some good talk about the trendnet tewp1pg. Beyond that I know nothing. I want to put my old HP laser-jet back in service because I'm tired of running out of ink (gold) :-). TIA, RJ
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:53:05 -0600, RJ wrote in :
Can you get an Ethernet interface for your Laserjet? If so, that might be a better bet with a wireless Ethernet (client) bridge than a wireless printer server.
That Motorola model does NOT do WPA, despite the fact that Motorola claims that it does. There has been much discussion about this. Motorola does not provide any support for WPA. See "
The Trendnet looks okay, but you have to plug it directly into the parallel port. This has two problems. First, if the printer is on a shelf, you have to have more space between the back and the printer to allow for the depth of the print server. Second, you can't position the device for best reception (I guess you could get a Centronics M to Centronics F cable to relocate the device, and these are only $11, see "
I went through the same thing, wanting to put my old HP LJIII on a wireless network. The other alternative was to get an HP JetDirect interface, then an Ethernet to Wireless adapter. However several people advised that the older JetDirect adapters for the older HP printers, were flakey. Such an arrangement would have also been much more expensive. So I got the D-Link model.
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