Sharing Printers

jekennedy · Sep 13, 2006

I have an sbc wireless router; wireless laptop; desktop connected to router via ethernet cable; & TWO printers connected to the desktop.
Problem: sending stuff to either printer from the laptop is tiiiiimmmmeeee consuming (takes a long time to buffer). Laptop is older model with only 702 mb of space left on the hard drive.
Is there a "printer router" with RAM for buffering that I can connect to the sbc router and have the two printers connected to the printer router instead. OBJECT: to speed things up.

IS POSSIBLE???????

GOT MY ANSWER ---- THANKS!

Tmagic650 · Sep 13, 2006

What Operating System is on both computers? XP?

N3051M · Sep 13, 2006

Keep this in mind: If the laptop is sending the signal slow then its gonna be slow overall....

The device you're looking at is something like a NAS (with USB connections for those external HDDs, but you can almost put anything on it)

Or a print server: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...scription=Print+server&Submit=ENE&N=0&Ntk=all

jekennedy · Sep 13, 2006

Thanks Techspot Addict. Placed an order today.

jobeard · Sep 13, 2006

jekennedy said:

Laptop is older model with only 702 mb of space left on the hard drive.
Click to expand...

lack of free space is always an issue for performance.

use the CP->admin tools->Disk Mgmt to see the HD
right click on its name and use DISK CLEANUP botton to toss the old updates
and temp files.

Tmagic650 · Sep 13, 2006

Hey jobeard, I used to live in Simi Valley just over the hill on 118 from you!

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