Digital BW, The Print

If you've got all of your computers already hooked up to a wired network, why not just put your printer on one of your other computers, and set it up as 'shared'.  It would probably be faster than a wireless, and you're already almost done.  You'd just have to have the other computer (the one with the printer) on when you wanted to print.  I do that, and it work just fine.
 
Tom Baker

rdbaron73102 <rbaron@...> wrote:
---On 3-16-04  Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@m...> wrote:

> The best way to go is if you have an ethernet card on your 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.
> 

Thanks, Truman, this is getting me pointed in the right direction.

I do have an ethernet card on my PC but it is taken up by the
connection to my Linksys 5 Port Switch; my internet connection comes
into the house and then to a cable modem and then to the switch, then
branching off to two PCs.

I can't even install a PCI card access point because all my slots are
full.

Can I plug a wireless access point into the Switch?

Will WinXP Pro automatically configure it?

Will I then make stunning prints with my new 2200 straight out of the
box?

<g>

Many thanks,

--Bob



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