Re: Wireless router / print server

Nigel wrote:
Hello,

Big step: going wireless!
Anyone help please?

Our set up:
?Talk-talk? broadband from phone line via modem to wireless capable
DeskTop running ?XP?, connected to HP1220C printer (non Post Script),
and Canon scanner. Three family wireless capable Laptops running ?XP?
and the orrible ?Vista?.
Would like to connect modem, printer, scanner, external hard drive and
possibly DeskTop, by cable to router, and have access to them from
Laptops.

Have seen ?ASUS WL-600g? router which combines a printer server, but
it seems that HP 1220C is not included in compatible printers list,
nor does it seem possible to run a scanner from it. Is this the case
please? Is there an alternative router that would?

At the moment, the power for all items is through a ?One Click?
switched adaptor so that when the DeskTop is turned off, the power to
all items (excluding the Laptops of course) is turned off. Would it be
possible to arrange for this to happen when the router was turned off,
or would one have to re-setup the network whenever the router was
turned back on?

Thanks

N

you may want to consider a plan B that can do what you want and more (and
probably be way cheaper).... I got an older puter at goodwill for $50 (with
wireless) and made it an always on node on my wifi, hung printers, usb
drives etc off it (and all can use that, 1 TB usb drives were on sale over
xmas for $129, now I have a poor mans 4TB NAS <- Network Attached Storage),
and for non network stuff like the scanner, use a remote access package over
the network (lets me log on and act as if my screen/mouse/keyboard/etc) are
attached to that unit, so I just log on and use that one machine as if I was
sitting at it.....

as for power, i'd just leave the wap/router and spare pc/devices on all the
time....


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