Digital BW, The Print

You could run Ether net (wired network) at 100 megabits/sec. You can run 
a 802.11b wireless network at 11 megabits/sec or an 802.11 g wireless 
network at 54 megabits/sec. There is no printer alive that can out print 
an 11 megabit link. You need about 500 kilobits/sec to feed your printer.

The best way to go is if you have an ethernet card on you PC (most come 
with it these days). You can get a wireless access point (802.11b for 70 
bucks 802.11 g for 100 bucks). Actually those are the prices - or were - 
for a Linksys (Cisco Systems) high speed internet/4 port ethernet 
router/wireless access point.

You can get a 802.11 x print server for about 50 bucks. It hooks 
directly on the parallel port on the printer. If you have an ethernet 
card in you PC simply plug it into the access point - configure the 
network and you up and running. XP already has to print server driver 
built in and it will be on the disk for the other OS's.

Works like a charm.

Check out http://www.homepcnetwork.com/  and  http://www.linksys.com/  
for more.

Truman

rdbaron73102 wrote:

>
>
> This is interesting to me.  Over the past weekend I posted an inquiry
> about this in the EPSON_Printers yahoo forum (I'm going to have to put
> a 2200 a room away from the desktop computer) and the consensus seemed
> to be (a) too expensive, and (b) too slow.  (Also too complicated for
> someone who does not have _any_ experience in setting up wireless
> networks.)
>
> Truman, if you (or anyone else) would be willing to expand on this
> option I'd sure appreciate it.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
>
>

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