Digital BW, The Print

Tom,

Normally a dedicated print server be it ethernet or wireless is much 
faster than going through another computer. Not only that the other 
computer has to be up and both boxes are involved in the print buffer. A 
dedicated print server is a much cleaner way to go. The 802.11 g runs at 
a little over 50% of the Cat 5 ethernet speed and the 802.11 b runs 
faster than the Cat 3 ethernet and both run about 4 times faster than a 
printer can accept.

My printesr are on the second floor of my house. My wife has the laptop 
in the basement working on a project and has full use of all the 
printers and network disk When I take the laptop out on the back porch 
on nice spring mornings to work I have full use of all the printers and 
network disk. The printer works just as well is if I were sitting next 
to it hooked up by a parallel, usb or firewire cable. The beauty of it - 
there are not cables cluttering up the house.

Truman

Tom Baker wrote:

>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.
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