Another IT improvement here at the western home - got wireless printing to work. Bought a Netgear print server and a separate 5 port (why 5?) 100BT switch. Total price, less than $200. I can remember when a 100BT switch was $5000 - incredible.
The Netgear boxes worked perfectly out of the box. No complaints. Getting the MS networking set up properly on my laptop was another matter. To my chagrin, it worked very simply on my wife's XP laptop, but my W2K laptop took forever to configure. Basic problem - you've got to configure the printer as a local printer (versus a networked), even though it's attached to an Ethernet switch and accessible over a WLAN. Windows considers the networked print server ports to be local ports. Right.
Net of it all is that we can now jam the printer from anywhere in our house. Should be fun.
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