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Summary: Great Product! No Problems!
Review: I purchased this product about 1 month ago and abused the heck out of it. Print from detailed photo's to charts and displays to photosmart 1218 and a hp color lazer print. I don't have any back logs or transfer problems. Great product and highly recommended!
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Summary: Great Product! No Problems!
Review: I purchased this product about 1 month ago and abused the heck out of it. Print from detailed photo's to charts and displays to photosmart 1218 and a hp color lazer print. I don't have any back logs or transfer problems. Great product and highly recommended!
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Summary: It does what it is, a two-port print server
Review: It does what it is, a two-port print server. So far there is no print server has two-way communication. It uses the concept, "redirect", each computer needs to install the printer driver then redirect to the port. If the two-way communication is important to you, you need use a dedicated computer as print server. Only a dedicated computer is capable to know who sent the printing job and who should receive the message from printer (such as "out of paper", "ink low", etc). I bought this to avoid a dedicated computer being always on.About the setup, for sure it is not plug and play; however it is not that hard. First, you have to have NetBUEI protocol at the "Administrative" computer (it is not installed by default; but can be added on easily), then run its setup (FirstGear) with Administrative ability to configure the PS110, then you can assign the IP address for it. I'd like to use a fixed IP and not using the DHCP. For the other computer, ( a Mac or PC), you can just use TCP/IP protocol. For PC, run its setup as client computer (only need "Add Printer Wizard"), it will find and add two ports for the system, then just install your printer driver on the port. Once the PS110 is set, it remembers its setting. You may turn it off if you want. The netgear also provides firmware update at its web site. I am very happy with this print sever. If this print server provided web-based setup ( by just using browser with a specific IP), I would give it a five-star evaluation. If it also came with a build-in Ethernet switches/hub ( it is not), I would give it a six star.
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Summary: It does what it is, a two-port print server
Review: It does what it is, a two-port print server. So far there is no print server has two-way communication. It uses the concept, "redirect", each computer needs to install the printer driver then redirect to the port. If the two-way communication is important to you, you need use a dedicated computer as print server. Only a dedicated computer is capable to know who sent the printing job and who should receive the message from printer (such as "out of paper", "ink low", etc). I bought this to avoid a dedicated computer being always on. About the setup, for sure it is not plug and play; however it is not that hard. First, you have to have NetBUEI protocol at the "Administrative" computer (it is not installed by default; but can be added on easily), then run its setup (FirstGear) with Administrative ability to configure the PS110, then you can assign the IP address for it. I'd like to use a fixed IP and not using the DHCP. For the other computer, ( a Mac or PC), you can just use TCP/IP protocol. For PC, run its setup as client computer (only need "Add Printer Wizard"), it will find and add two ports for the system, then just install your printer driver on the port. Once the PS110 is set, it remembers its setting. You may turn it off if you want. The netgear also provides firmware update at its web site. I am very happy with this print sever. If this print server provided web-based setup ( by just using browser with a specific IP), I would give it a five-star evaluation. If it also came with a build-in Ethernet switches/hub ( it is not), I would give it a six star.
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Summary: Highly frustrating little blue box.
Review: Let me get this off my chest first: I like Netgear products a lot. I also see that other reviewers seem to like this printserver, so take their experiences into consideration as well. I have experienced many irritating problems with this printserver since buying it. Printing complex PDF files to my laser printer is a lost cause- three or four pages will print and then I'll get an error. After this happens the print server locks up and needs a reboot (often my computer also needs a reboot to print again- I think there might be a problem with their printer driver as well). I've called tech support and tried replacement units to no avail. I am inspired to write this review because of a problem I'm currently having- I just tried printing a simple document from WordPad and the printer driver insists there is another job waiting on the printer (there isn't).
My overall recommendation is to buy Netgear products but avoid this printserver.
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Summary: Does not work with multi-function printers
Review: Setting up the PS110 was a snap. It's practically plug-n-play and has worked well even with fairly old printers, including a seven year old Epson. I've used the print server in conjunction with both a PC and a laptop by plugging the print server in to my Netgear wireless router. The biggest problem with the PS110 is that it gets confused with some frequency and either loses a print job altogether or prints part of it and then sends the printer into an infinite spin. (The solution when this happens is to shut off both the printer and print server, then restart them.)
I recently replaced my PS110 with an Epson C84WN, which includes an Epson print server. I've found that having a printer and print server from the same company eliminates the problems I ran into with the PS110. However, if you have a couple of parallel port printers, and want to be able to connect to them from several devices on your wireless network, this is a reasonable solution.
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Summary: Very easy to use, nearly flawless
Review: Setting up the PS110 was a snap. It's practically plug-n-play. The only problem I ran into was that one of my printers (an Epson Stylus 660) installed a spool manager on my computer and I've had no luck uninstalling it. The PS110 doesn't work with spool managers. It requires you to turn them off, otherwise nothing will print. Both Netgear and Epson support were unable to help me (Netgear said it's Epson's problem, Epson's people were inept) and so I can't use my Stylus 660 with my print server. Other printers have been fine though.
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Summary: Instructions don't mention XP. Neither does their web site.
Review: The instructions don't mention Windows XP. The web site mentions it, barely, but wihhout instructions. I wasted an hour trying to do it myself, then an hour with tech support. Finally got it working, but only because I know about IP addresses, network configuration, etc. I imagine it would be easy to setup if they bothered to provide instructions for WIndows XP, and it may be easy with older versions of Windows. But XP users should stay away. And wonder why NetGear can't provide any attempt at instructions a year after XP's release. Once I got it working, it works fine. The only hassle was setting it up.
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Summary: Works, but not well with modern printers
Review: The product does work as a basic printer/ network interface on Windows 98/ 2000. Install is a bit undocumented, as noted in another review - along with how to do it. However, if your printer communicates back to the PC with more than the 30-year-old wire signals for paper out, jam, etc. you're out of luck. For example, my Epson 860 works OK, but I can't see when ink is running low. This is a feature on most new printers and its absence is annoying. I did get one response from Netgear to the effect that they don't support two-way communication and they don't plan to. There is also no support for Linux, and I don't know the status for MAC OS-X. Since I use Linux this is an issue for me. I am now using simple network print servers that plug into the printer's parallel connector and let the printer act as a standard network citizen. That way all the boxes on my network can use the 'standard' network printer. Cost was about $80 each for the little print 'servers'. I found them at a computer show. D-Link has one now for about $90. I suggest this is a standards-compliant way to avoid problems. Or just buy your printer 'Network Ready' if the option is available. It's about the same cost.
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Summary: Netgear Equals Superb Service
Review: This holiday season I was a good santa and purchased numerous wireless networking products for my various family members. Sure it was partially a selfish act as I wanted to be able to easily connect when I went to visit, but for the most part it was just an act of giving. I purchased mainly G products and they varied from routers to USB adapters to PC Card adapters. I did also purchase a couple of B products for those in the family that already had some wireless networking products (yes, I know they are backwards compatible but I didn't want to take any chances).
Only two members of the family had installation problems (considering my family is very non-technical I was quite impressed) and those two people both had yet to upgrade to Windows XP SP2. The rest of the family members were up and running within minutes.
As for the couple of family members that did have problems, well they called me first (of course) and I told them to just run back through the installation procedure again. This solved the problem for Uncle Dennis but Grandma Joyce still couldn't get it to work properly. I reluctantly told her to call Netgear's technical support (hey the reviews on Amazon haven't been too pretty for their tech support). I however was quite pleased when an hour later I got an email from Grandma Joyce thanking me for the great gift. I called her back and she told me that after fiddling with the settings with the Netgear people she was up and running within 30 minutes.
Overall, I consider this the ultimate test of product quality and support and I would give Netgear two thumbs up.
I hope this review was helpful to you in putting your mind at ease regarding ease of setup and trust of technical support if needed.
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