I'm looking for a wireless parallel print server and I found one on Amazon and one on Ebay.
These were made in 2003 or 2004 when parallel printers were the norm, and I'm wondering if Linksys had a bad year, or if it only applied to their print servers.
The Amazon one was maybe a Linksys WPS32 at various sellers, several at $20, which seemed cheap enough but, as Paul would suggest, I looked at the Amazon ratings and it was a 3. with a really large number of 1's and 2's. Instructions complicated, incomplete, no good, customer service gives contradictory statements, From customers who generally loved Linksys and bragged about how many other things from them they had and
And Ebay's was a Linksys Wireless G Print Server WPS54GU2. So I figured that one woudl be good It has 3 bids already and 2 hours before it closes. So I looked and it was on Amazon with iirc a 2.5 rating!!! Same kinds of complaints. Like the others, from people with 35 years in computing, network adminstrators etc.
So, Linksys still has a good reputation doesn't it?
Were wireless print servers uncommon enough that if they were bad, most people didn't notice, and even fewer cared?
So the upshot is, I've run out of room in my office/bedroom and want to put a big laser printer in the next room. I've given up on wireless for now and I bought a wired one for 99 cents, plus $6 S&H. It just means a 4rd wire running through the hall, and only a couple feet for this one.