wireless "b" print server on G network

Thanks everyone for all those responses, very much appreciated and warmly welcomed. Thanks.

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Oh yeah. 802.11b will work nicely with 802.11g access points and routers as long as:

1. You do NOT have "802.11g only" enabled.
2. You're willing to accept a performance slowdown for the entire network when the access point slows down for the 802.11b traffic.
3. You're willing to live with WEP instead of WPA as much of the

802.11b only hardware has not been kludged for WPA compatibility.

1. You do NOT have "AP Protection" or "client isolation" enabled in the router, which will prevent any of the wireless clients from contacting the printer. I slammed into this on a highly secured Sonicwall TZ170, which was setup this way to prevent virus propogation, and ended up also preventing the user of a wireless printer.

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Thanks, I was wondering if any routers allowed simultaneous WEP and WPA. I never bought an Actiontec print server due to the price, it would be cheaper to put in an SMC2804WBR and use a WEP print server.

Well, I now have 2 customers that have two access points in the public areas. One setup for WPA encryption and the other setup for WEP encryption. There's a third customer that has WPA for internal network access, and no encryption for the public and visitor access, but that's another horror story. There are a few wireless routers and access points that can simultaneously support WEP and WPA. That's the SMC2804WBR, and possibly (not sure) the Vigor 2600VG that support both WEP and WPA concurrently. There's no technical reason why one can't run both encryption methods concurrently, but the manufacturers didn't think anyone would need or want the feature, so they left it out.

Not entirely true. Linksys products are generally not cheaper than comparable D-Link or Netgear products, though they're all competing in the low end of the market, and the _modems_ are quite compatible. It's things like WDS that aren't interoperable - and nobody else's products are either.

Certainly some of the higher end access points will do this but for a domestic environment surely you just end up with the weakest solution of WEP because once you've cracked that, you're back on. The higher end devices can do this via seperate VLAN's and SSID's.

The few wireless routers that do concurrent WEP and WPA have seperate IP blocks for each protocol. Optionally, there is no route between these IP blocks making printing from the WPA side to a print server on the WEP site problematic. However, the only route is to the default gateway on the internet. The wired LAN is yet a 3rd IP block and is also isolated. So, cracking the WEP key will only give you access to the internet. You would not see the wired LAN, other wireless clients on the WEP side, and any WPA wireless clients.

Incidentally, calling the printers with built in 802.11 a "print server" is wrong. It's really a "print client" since it initiates the connection to a valid access point.

The SMC2804WBRP-G version also supports both, and it includes a USB print server. It's less than the SMC2804WR right now, because of rebates. Unfortunately it's only a USB 1.1 printer port, which can be a little slow when you're sending photos to a printer.

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A parallel port WEP print server from Motorola is $50. "" Too bad that Motorola still doesn't support WPA on that print server, despite the fact that they claim they do!