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Summary: Shoddy stuff
Review: I seldom get to the point with a product where I will write reviews, but people need to be warned. I am a cto of software company, 48 years old and cut my teeth on: VAX, 360, C64, Z80's, 6502, AMD 9511/12, AppleII, Lisa, Fortran, Basic, C, C++, RS232, HP Logic Analyzers, etc. I don't think I have done it all, but I have done a ton of it. My wife (who's account I am using), has a unmodified 6 mos old HP laptop with XP/SP2, my daughter an e-machine (4 mos old) also running XP. These boxes need to share a brand new lexmark printer. I could not make it work out of the box no matter what I did with the config utility, or either XP box. I came to Amazon and saw Chris from California (posted oct 17) had it figured out. Applied his suggestion and had it working in 30 seconds after 2 hours of messing with the IO gear manual. Piece of junk not worth the time. The manufacturers need to make this stuff work right the first time, otherwise at $50 its not a good deal at all because of the time it cost me. IOGear, never again.
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Summary: Not impressed
Review: I tried to install this using 3 different machines (XP & 2000) on my network with no success. It would not grab an IP address from the DHCP server, so I couldn't get to it onto the network. I called tech. support and they had no clue. Easier to return it to Amazon and try another manufacturer than try and troubleshoot something that should just work.The User Manual is a joke. They actually have a page that ends in mid-sentence. The install program ends with an option to view the readme file... but it doesn't exist. Very sloppy product management team at IOGear... no wonder I've never heard of them before.
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Summary: Great Product!!!
Review: i was reading all these reviews and did not agree with any of them. opened the box installed it and it worked fine. i had no problems at all. the product works great with my hp deskjet. only incompetent people would have problems with setting up this unit. it's pretty straight forward. i feel sorry for all these people who think they are really smart techies or give themselves prestigious technical job titles can't install a simple device as this. i mean if you don't know anything about computers then don't pretend to.
Rating: 
Summary: Pretty good print server
Review: I went with this print server over the Netgear one due to it being less then the Netgear while offering the same features. The setup of the print server is pretty easy and straight forward but there is one thing to look out for. If you are running any type of software firewall on your pc then the print server most likely won't be found. If you are running the built in internet firewall on Windows XP,the server won't be found. If you disable the firewall then the admin software will find the server. I sent a email to their tech support asking for the port number that I could open up on the firewall. Their tech support replied in a resonable time with the port number but the server still can't be found with the firewall active. One other note. The box states that the print sever works with Apples OS X. This is only true if your printer is a post script printer. I was able to easily have OS X find the print server but the print jobs came out garbled. Other print servers of this type by other manufactures have these same issues so it's not a issue with Iogear. Overall, the product has performed as expected.
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Summary: What a nightmare!!!
Review: I've now been through 2 of these things. First one would could not be found by the setup software. I spent 45 minutes on the phone with someone in the IOGear tech support department. He was very patient and very helpful. He walked me through many different solutions. Unfortunatly none of them worked. He suggested that the unit I had was deffective and I should try another, which I did. I exchanged the unit for another and still have all of the same problems. Tried it on 2 different computers. I give up.
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Summary: Save your money, buy my 'used' unit - big discount
Review: Reviewer: bc53 from Merrimack, NH USA
I read the reviews, saw the pessimism, and still bought one. Now I'm sorry. Apparently it works great if you have an HP printer; mine is a Canon. I've tried everything, even sent it back (they said it "tests OK" and sent it back to me). I'm running Windows XP - followed all directions, set up the network print port. It sees the printer - printed a test page, but nothing else since then. Spent time with tech support... If you want one of these, contact me and I'll sell it cheap - hate to see it go to waste.
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Summary: good product, so-so manual, poor tech support.
Review: the print server works reasonably well. the manual that comes with the unit (you can download it from the web) is poorly written and pretty much useless. the customer support is non-existent. i emailed them with a question (the name for their IPP queue) 2 weeks back and i am still waiting for their reply. i found the answer by doing a google search. for those who want to use IPP or LPR with this unit (primarily for people on Unix/Linux) the queue name is lp1. this info is nowhere in the manual. also this product is identical to the hawking technology product H-PS1U. for those on linux/unix who don't want to initially configure the unit via windows GUI (that ships with the product cd) can download the hpsutil for H-PS1U from the web (this utility is not distributed by Hawking Technology but was instead written by someone at unixwiz.net.. do a google search). you can configure this unit using the hpsutil perl script from Linux/Unix (even windows if you have perl installed) command line over the UDP port 20560. overall the unit has worked well. i have a HP officejet 7130 connected to it and it works quite well. the officejet 7130 is a multifunction printer but from what i understand it won't work with many other multifunction models. i also have two cheaper lexmark printers and they worked fine during initial trials.
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Summary: I am sure it's great...IF IT WORKED!
Review: Tried installing this thing using a Lexmark z23 printer (listed as a compatible printer). After installing it once without luck, I downloaded the latest drivers...still no dice. I was using two XP machines without success. It gets an IP address from my router and I can "ping" it from the browser interface, but I just can't print. One machine did nothing while the other one just fed the paper through. Neither printed a single character. I really cannot recommend this device.
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