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Summary: Excellent, easy, stable, cheap!
Review: Set up easily out of the box, just had to refer to the manual for small issue of adding the print port. Driver disks work flawlessly on both 98SE and XP Home. Just install the floppies and add the printer, selecting the network print port under the Ports tab under the printer properties.I have a 3 computer network (2 desktops with 98SE, 1 laptop with XP Home) and was tired of having to have the PC on just to print from my laser. For about 20W per hour, I can have the printer on and ready all the time. I may add one to my inkjet on the second desktop.
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Summary: Installed and Working - Excellent
Review: Sorry previous reviewers, but I have to disagree.
It took 10mins to install, including the 3mins spent crawling around under the desk trying to find a spare power outlet. I followed the procedure shown in the Quick Installation Guide, which was easy to follow and for once the screenshots in a manual looked exactly like the screens on my laptop, and had it installed and successfully printing to a Brother HL-1440 Series printer within minutes. Looking forward to many more successful network print jobs.
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Summary: Not user friendly
Review: the customer service number is not toll-free.
the software is not user-friendly enough, I've had to call customer service on several occassions, but they are only available from 8-5pm pacific, which are usually the hours that I'm not around my printer.
it's okay, but they can make this more user-friendly.
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Summary: A good product.....but...
Review: This print server does everything it says it does, but the manual and software given is poorly written. The manual is written at a 6th grade level and does not adequatly explain how to get the software to work with the server. In the end it is a good product if you know what you're doing...NOT FOR BEGINNERS
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Summary: Lousy documentation
Review: This print server installs flawlessly in Windows 98, It installs with a bit of effort in Windows XP, but in Linux I gave up. Documentation stated the obvious and left everything else unanswered and I am still waiting for their tech support to return my e-mail. A [inexpensive] Print solution if you don't need ease of installation or any tech support.
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Summary: Consider this a Windows-only product
Review: This product may be simple and straightforward to install for Win9x platforms. However, any claims of support for MacOS and Linux/Unix should be taken with a LARGE grain of salt. Essentially, I was unable to talk to this device for configuration purposes by any means, except for the little proprietary Windows-only configuration gadget that ships on two floppies (how quaint). Useless to me, because I have no Wintel systems at home. I did run a little test on Win98 at the office, and it seemed to work OK, though I don't understand why they went the closed-proprietary route in the first place. (If anyone's curious, the config utility apparently uses UDP broadcasts to port 20560, and the (unconfigured) print server responds with a completely bogus 1.2.3.4 IP address.) The documentation is among the worst I have seen in my many years in the business. It is incomplete (to the point of some sentences being cut off in the middle) and semi-grammatical at best. I suppose that Mac users with simple requirements (Laserwriter emulation via AppleTalk only) may find this product satisfactory as well. Me, I'm going to replace it with an HP JetDirect.
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Summary: Reliable? Yes. Easy to install? Not really...
Review: To be fair, it's not *all* their fault. Yes, the manual is terrible. But the "mainstream" operating systems get in the way, too --- a *very* large part of the blame must go to Microsoft. How can I say this? Well, printing from a Mac --- using either TCP/IP (under MacOS X) or AppleTalk (OS 7/8/9) works lickety-split fast; printing from Win98 works, yes, but get yourself an extra-large latte and savor every drop before you wander back to the printer. Bottom line: don't follow the manual's instructions for Win95/98
setup; instead, use the Print Wizard to add a *local* printer (on LPT0, say), then change its properties to map the printer to a new network port. Oh, and for those of you using MacOS X or UNIX: you can set the IP address by entering the following command as the superuser: arp -s <IP address> <MAC address> (On MacOS X, try for example "sudo arp -s 192.168.254.254 00:00:00:00:00:00") The MAC address is on a white label on the back of the print server. Once you've set the IP address, you can configure using the embedded web server. A final word of warning: don't set a password, which it tends to forget.
Rating:
Summary: Reliable? Yes. Easy to install? Not really...
Review: To be fair, it's not *all* their fault. Yes, the manual is terrible. But the "mainstream" operating systems get in the way, too --- a *very* large part of the blame must go to Microsoft. How can I say this? Well, printing from a Mac --- using either TCP/IP (under MacOS X) or AppleTalk (OS 7/8/9) works lickety-split fast; printing from Win98 works, yes, but get yourself an extra-large latte and savor every drop before you wander back to the printer. Bottom line: don't follow the manual's instructions for Win95/98
setup; instead, use the Print Wizard to add a *local* printer (on LPT0, say), then change its properties to map the printer to a new network port. Oh, and for those of you using MacOS X or UNIX: you can set the IP address by entering the following command as the superuser: arp -s (On MacOS X, try for example "sudo arp -s 192.168.254.254 00:00:00:00:00:00") The MAC address is on a white label on the back of the print server. Once you've set the IP address, you can configure using the embedded web server. A final word of warning: don't set a password, which it tends to forget.
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