Wireless printing

[dragon]

Only reason I was after a printer with the network card built in, If it's designed for that printer then one knows its going to work with that printer.

These USB print server things are a bit iffy espcailly if the printer wants bi-directional communications.

[daz300]

hi , would some thing like this help you

Belkin Network USB Hub £59.99

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...t%3EBELKIN.htm

i have one with a hd and some othere bits as well .

daz300

[dragon]

Originally Posted by daz300

hi , would some thing like this help you

Belkin Network USB Hub £59.99

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...t%3EBELKIN.htm

i have one with a hd and some othere bits as well .

daz300

Depends on the Driver support i'd imagine.

It's slightly cheaper online but by the time you pay P&P not much though.
Might be worth paying the extra couple £ and getting it from a bricks and morter store.

Dunno about computer hardware but argos are usally quite good at taking things back if they don't perform as expected.

Off topic:

Got the email from Misco looks like they've accepted the order, My Mail providers spamfilter had forgotten my settings and had it in holding

[ruddock08]

you can get the belkin wireless network usb hub, dabs.com has some at good price £60. it is very good and i cannot fault it one bit.

[dragon]

Originally Posted by ruddock08

you can get the belkin wireless network usb hub, dabs.com has some at good price £60. it is very good and i cannot fault it one bit.

Isnt that the same one Daz300 posted for £60 in argos (which providing theres an argos local that has them in stock would be quicker than waiting for dabs to deliver)

[ruddock08]

yer sorry :P cant read properly :P

you should get one, they are fantastic. just install drivers and your away, works with everything imaginable. only problem is hard drives are a bit slow (700 mb in 4 mins?) compared to usb2 but it's wireless and it's great!

[dragon]

Originally Posted by ruddock08

yer sorry :P cant read properly :P

you should get one, they are fantastic. just install drivers and your away, works with everything imaginable. only problem is hard drives are a bit slow (700 mb in 4 mins?) compared to usb2 but it's wireless and it's great!

What about the Driver support though, does it support Vista x64.

Interesting but I've got an old Desktop I use as a NAS (I have about 6 HDDs in it which would look messy all in USB caddys)

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/140153

saying that you can get a dual core Xeon server for under £120 thesedays so at somepoint I may replace the Desktop pretending to be a server with a proper Server since the desktop soetimes plays up only reason i kept it was becuase it had a big enough case to fit all my spare drives in (its a 3800x2 )

I've already got a proliant rackmount server and so far i've not had any problems with it (Not at home, its co-lo'd elsewhere)

[ruddock08]

i think the dirvers for the netwrok hub are x64, not 100% sure though, but even if they were you still need x 64 drivers fpr your devices you will be using with it

[dragon]

Originally Posted by ruddock08

i think the dirvers for the netwrok hub are x64, not 100% sure though, but even if they were you still need x 64 drivers fpr your devices you will be using with it

depends on the devices stuff like drives doesnt usually need a driver

I think we are getting rather off topic here.