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Summary: Setup and working within 5 minutes!
Review: Great product! The instructions were clear and simple, and I had this item working within 5 minutes of opening the box. I don't know what the deal is with everyone complaining about the setup.Finally!!! I don't need to leave my desktop computer on to print stuff from other computers on my home network! For everybody's information, I'm running Windows 2000 Professional with a 4 port wireless router.
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Summary: Setup and working within 5 minutes!
Review: Great product! The instructions were clear and simple, and I had this item working within 5 minutes of opening the box. I don't know what the deal is with everyone complaining about the setup. Finally!!! I don't need to leave my desktop computer on to print stuff from other computers on my home network! For everybody's information, I'm running Windows 2000 Professional with a 4 port wireless router.
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Summary: Parallel interface is Centronics -- not D25
Review: Grrrrr... The product specs for the DP-101P+ indicate the product supports a "Parallel Port Connection" -- however that connection is on the printer side, not "computer" side. I had ordered this to use with an HP1100 printer. HP has chosen for several printer models to move to a more compact connector type. As a result, this device will not work without some kind of adapter -- which may exist but I'll not take the time to find. I guess this is not totally D-Link's fault, but I think they could have made it more obvious that this wouldn't work with a large number of popular printers. Save yourself the return shipping -- if you have an HP printer, check the parallel port on the back of the printer before buying to make sure it's not the compact style. pt
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Summary: Parallel interface is Centronics -- not D25
Review: Grrrrr... The product specs for the DP-101P+ indicate the product supports a "Parallel Port Connection" -- however that connection is on the printer side, not "computer" side. I had ordered this to use with an HP1100 printer. HP has chosen for several printer models to move to a more compact connector type. As a result, this device will not work without some kind of adapter -- which may exist but I'll not take the time to find. I guess this is not totally D-Link's fault, but I think they could have made it more obvious that this wouldn't work with a large number of popular printers. Save yourself the return shipping -- if you have an HP printer, check the parallel port on the back of the printer before buying to make sure it's not the compact style. pt
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Summary: Parallel interface is Centronics -- not D25
Review: Grrrrr... The product specs for the DP-101P+ indicate the product supports a "Parallel Port Connection" -- however that connection is on the printer side, not "computer" side. I had ordered this to use with an HP1100 printer. HP has chosen for several printer models to move to a more compact connector type. As a result, this device will not work without some kind of adapter -- which may exist but I'll not take the time to find. I guess this is not totally D-Link's fault, but I think they could have made it more obvious that this wouldn't work with a large number of popular printers. Save yourself the return shipping -- if you have an HP printer, check the parallel port on the back of the printer before buying to make sure it's not the compact style. pt
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Summary: Not worth the hassle
Review: Having recently purchased a DLink wireless router and PC card I thought adding the DLink print server was a no-brainer. I couldn't have been more wrong. One would think that products from the same manufacturer would be easily configurable but not DLink. I spent several hours trying to get the darn thing to work and finally called tech support and waited for 20 minutes to speak to someone. They weren't much help and told me to return it. I put it in the mail the next day. Unless you're a network engineer, I would not recommend this product
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Summary: Not worth the hassle
Review: Having recently purchased a DLink wireless router and PC card I thought adding the DLink print server was a no-brainer. I couldn't have been more wrong. One would think that products from the same manufacturer would be easily configurable but not DLink. I spent several hours trying to get the darn thing to work and finally called tech support and waited for 20 minutes to speak to someone. They weren't much help and told me to return it. I put it in the mail the next day. Unless you're a network engineer, I would not recommend this product
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Summary: Works Like it Should with Little Fuss.
Review: I don't know what everyones problem is, but if you follow the instructions you can configure this and set up your PCs in about 15 minutes if you just follow the instructions. I followed the instructions and everything went smoothly. This does use the Centronics port and fits my BJC-1000 perfectly converting the printer port to an ethernet port. Now I don't have to have my PC on for my wife to be able to print. YAY!
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Summary: Works great once you get it to work
Review: In summary, this is a good, economical print server for wired home network. With this print server, you can print it from any computer on your home network... One thing to note, your print server needs to be connected to a switch or hub... This one is not a wireless print server :) I wanted to off-load print server duty from one computer of my home network of 3 computers. I did not like the fact that my Windows 98 machine has to be up all the time if I want to print from other computers... Not a good idea, since Windows 98 does not perform well when it is up for long time... It needs some periodical reboot to perform well. This print server works good. You just plug into the parallel port on one end, and your home network via built-in RJ-45 port.... Setting up... was fairly straight forward. One thing to note is that your print server works only if it is within the same IP address range.. i.e. if you have Linksys switch, which has local IP address between 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255... you must statically set your print server any IP within the LInksys range... (NOTE: D-Link uses 192.168.0.1 as its standard IP address, and this does not work with Linksys...). So.. Just make sure that you are within the same IP address range. Using Print server: You need to install driver for Windows 98/ME.. however, for Windows 2000 and XP only needs to know the IP address of the print server and the port name... It is fairly straight forward to set your computer with the print server. Overall, I am quite satisfied with this product... It was one of the most economical print server... For those who doesn't need wireless print server.. I would recommend this one.
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Summary: good, economical print server
Review: In summary, this is a good, economical print server for wired home network. With this print server, you can print it from any computer on your home network... One thing to note, your print server needs to be connected to a switch or hub... This one is not a wireless print server :) I wanted to off-load print server duty from one computer of my home network of 3 computers. I did not like the fact that my Windows 98 machine has to be up all the time if I want to print from other computers... Not a good idea, since Windows 98 does not perform well when it is up for long time... It needs some periodical reboot to perform well. This print server works good. You just plug into the parallel port on one end, and your home network via built-in RJ-45 port.... Setting up... was fairly straight forward. One thing to note is that your print server works only if it is within the same IP address range.. i.e. if you have Linksys switch, which has local IP address between 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255... you must statically set your print server any IP within the LInksys range... (NOTE: D-Link uses 192.168.0.1 as its standard IP address, and this does not work with Linksys...). So.. Just make sure that you are within the same IP address range. Using Print server: You need to install driver for Windows 98/ME.. however, for Windows 2000 and XP only needs to know the IP address of the print server and the port name... It is fairly straight forward to set your computer with the print server. Overall, I am quite satisfied with this product... It was one of the most economical print server... For those who doesn't need wireless print server.. I would recommend this one.
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