Amanda wrote:
> Duane Arnold wrote:
>
>>Amanda wrote:
>>
>>>Duane Arnold wrote:
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>>>>Amanda wrote:
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>>>>>This is for a friend of mine. Can anyone tell me the compatible print
>>>>>server for
>>>>>HP PSC 1610 printer ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Why do you need a wireless one? Why can you not use a wire one, that is
>>>>less trouble?
>>>
>>>
>>>She has wirless network in her house and there are 3 computers in the
>>>house.
>>
>>I would use a wireless print server in a situation where the printer was
>>in a location where a cable couldn't be connected to it from the router
>>to the printer.
>
>
> That would be the situation in my sister's *huge* house since the
> router is in the library/office upstairs where she probably would not
> want people to go there all the time to get the print-outs.
>
> She should and want to keep the printer just inside or outside that
> room w/o ugly long wiring.
>
>
>>I'll assume the router is a wire/wireless AP router.
>
>
> My friend's house is with wireless (Linksys).

Yes it's a wire/wireless AP router.
>
> What's AP, btw?
>
Access Point is in the wireless equation. The wireless computers have an
access point in the network infrastructure.

You can take a standalone wireless AP device and plug it into an all
wire router. You then have a wire/wireless LAN with the standalone WAP
implemented. The wireless computer can use the network infrastructure
provided by the all wire router.

The wireless machines can access the Access Point and access the wire
machine or another wireless machine on the LAN. They can access the
WAN/Internet, because the wire router provides the means.

The wireless router you talk about has WAP built in. It's still a wire
router with a WAP.

The WAP is a bridging mechanism that bridges to two networks of wire and
wireless together to make one network.

>
>>The printer can be placed near the router and you can plug a wire print server into a
>>LAN port in the router using a regular cable.
>
>
> My friend's probably doing that already.
>
> What type of cable would be the *regular* cable that you refer to?

That would be the cable used to connect a computer using a wire Ethernet
Network Interface card to a networking device such as a standalone
switch or hub. It is also used to connect the computer to the router on
the routers LAN ports. It uses RJ45 plugs on both ends of the cable. You
can look-up RJ45 as opposed to USB cable (use Google).

One end of the RJ45 plugs is plugged into a LAN port on the router. The
other plug is plugged into the print server. The wire print server has
it's own plug that plugs into the printer. You have to find out what
type of network port the printer uses and find the print server that's
compatible. I would call HP on that one.

>
>
>>Both wire and wireless machines can print to the printer using the wire print server connected to the router.
>
>
> But the printer must be kept near the router in this situation, right?

You can drag the cable as far as it can go. I wouldn't be getting 100
feet of cable. ;-) 5 maybe 10 feet will do the job.
>
>
>>The printer is part of the network at that point. There is no need for a
>>complicated wireless print server if you're thinking that it has to be
>>wireless,
>
>
> I knew that the print server can be wire print server and be a part of
> the network. Just that when I mentioned about wireless printing, she
> said she's interested in doing that.

You should find out for sure, because wireless can be flaky in any
situation.
>
>
>>because you're using what I'll assume is a common wire/wireless AP router and all the
>>machines are wireless.
>
>
> I don't understand AP. My friend uses Linksys. My sister's is Motorola.

I think I have explained that.

>
>>The wireless computers using the wireless side of the router can print
>>to the wire print server connected to the router.
>
>
> Right.
>
>>You may want to find one that has features that work with the printer
>>you're using (Google), but print servers usually work with
>>all printers.
>
>
> I see. I'll suggest her to just get wire print server.

If you disable the DHCP Server on a wire/wireless AP router, then the
router becomes a wire/wireless AP switch, since the router has built in
switch technology.

All routers become switches when you disable the DHCP server. They are
no longer NAT routers.

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/about-NAT.asp

They are a standalone switch.

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/expla...d-switches.asp

Duane :)