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| Thread ID: 49187 | 2004-09-12 07:39:00 | Wireless printing | Wilky (776) | Press F1 |
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| 271564 | 2004-09-12 07:39:00 | I'm getting a new printer soon, and it's going to be in an area of its own in a room, away from all the computers. I don't want any wires leading towards it, as it would look messy. Anyway, it's a USB printer, the HP Deskjet 6540, and I want to know if there's some kind of adaptor which I can plug in each end? I don't want anything wifi, or bluetooth, just some usb device which transmits it's signals wirelessly. So the computer and printer thinks it's a USB device. Instead of this.... Printer-USB---------------------------USB-Computer I want this...... Printer-USB ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) USB-Computer The layout I have is below. All the computers (and the xbox) are plugged into a network (gigabit lan, wired into the walls.) zygar.co.nz Does such a device exist? I'm pretty sure I have seen one in PC World a while back, but I can't find which one it is. |
Wilky (776) | ||
| 271565 | 2004-09-12 07:50:00 | Does the printer have a ethernet interface? If not you could buy a simple print server from DSE, and then add a small switch to the wall socket where the xbox plugs in. Then you could connect both the xbox and printer to the switch. Otherwise you could use the same print server and instead of connecting it to a switch you could connect it to a wireless AP. The wireless AP would also have the benefit of giving you wireless connectivity. | Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 271566 | 2004-09-12 08:00:00 | Remember that most wifi USB adapters assume that they plug into a PC, and the PC has the processor to make them function. Your printer does not have that capability, so its going to be somewhat difficult without using a wifi print server at the printer end, and a USB wifi adapter at the PC end. Starting to look expensive as well. Oops sorry---you dont want WiFi. "I don't want anything wifi, or bluetooth" Let me see, no wifi, no bluetooth. But you want wireless. You have excluded the available options so I simply do not see how you can do it. Apart from using wires as above. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 271567 | 2004-09-12 08:07:00 | No, I'm sure I saw a wireless printing adapter in a PC World a few months back, that acted just like a standard USB cable, that was wireless. No wifi, no bluetooth. I can't remember how long ago I saw it though. | Wilky (776) | ||
| 271568 | 2004-09-12 08:10:00 | I am sure you are right. As far as I know Bluetooth adapters are available, BUT you specifically said "no wifi, no bluetooth" Why? | godfather (25) | ||
| 271569 | 2004-09-12 08:13:00 | www.computerworld.com.au You would need a USB bluetooth adapter on the PC. Any possible solution will need a wireless (generically referred to as WiFi) product. Be it Bluetooth or other. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 271570 | 2004-09-12 08:13:00 | I just found it- but it's a tad expensive, at $492. It converts bluetooth to parallel, so the computer and printer think it's a normal connection. I'm looking at the other options now, and probably will just go through the standard wiring. I don't really want to get a wireless print server, because then I'll be briding connections and other stuff which I really don't want to do. I'll probably get the HP Jetdirect print server and plug it into a 2 port switch. Know of any decent cheap switches? | Wilky (776) | ||
| 271571 | 2004-09-12 08:16:00 | Anyway, I don't suppose there's any real reason why I don't want bluetooth, just something unfamiliar I guess. I'm not sure how printer sharing works with bluetooth either. It doesn't really matter though, I'll probably just get a switch with a few ports and plug in the printer, like pete suggested. | Wilky (776) | ||
| 271572 | 2004-09-12 08:19:00 | Oh yeah, and by the "no wifi" comment I made before: I was actually meaning in terms of the printer connecting to a wifi network . Sorry if I was a bit unclear . Damn PressF1's lack of an edit feature . . . . |
Wilky (776) | ||
| 271573 | 2004-09-12 09:33:00 | OK, I have found a solution that should work. Here's a diagram of my network with the solution applied. Please tell me if this network will work efficiently (also- the computers should connect to each other at 1000mbits, will they? It's a smart switch, so I'd assume so) | Wilky (776) | ||
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