NETGEAR WGPS606 54 Mbps Wireless Print Server with 4-port Switch
by Netgear Inc
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Customer Review: Perfect for Bridging LANs Physically Separated
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me paint a picture for you - a cape cod, lots of brick, lathe and plaster. A cable modem and wireless router on the 2nd floor with a desktop hard-wired into it, a laptop wirelessly connected.
Enter the basement with a PS2, Dish receiver and XBox 360 and no feasible way to get a switch hard-wired via ethernet to the upstairs. The solution is the WGPS606, into which I plugged not a single printer but was able to attach three network appliances to my network through this outstanding wireless bridge.
I've been using Netgear products for ~10+ years now, so I bought on reputation. I won't lie, the user interface and documentation doesn't speak to the effect of bridging so much as it does the print serving. If you're comfortable with administering your own wireless router through its GUI already, then I say have at it - PERFECT for gamers or anyone else with multiple ethernet devices they don't feel like dropping ~$80 a piece on bridging equipment for separately.
Got an existing LAN you want to attach and 4 ports on this switch won't do it for you? No sweat - just add your switch to this one and make sure you've got crosstalk properly configured on your chaining port on the switch (or use a crossover cable). Just add your switch to this one and let DHCP dole out the IP's.
Gamers and broadband fans unite, this IS the bridging solution you've been looking for.
Customer Review: Great As Long As You Don't Use Their Wizard And Get Instructions From Website
Summary: 5 Stars
This router is great... it's the only affordable wireless 802.11G printserver that I could find that supports WPA-PSK secruity!!! BUT if you are not someone that know's what security is or how to set up the wireless access point without the wizard you don't want this. After I went and got the manual from the netgears web site, and found out default ip is 192.168.0.102 ( if I remeber correctly) to set up the secruity and SSID to match my D-Link ExtremeG router it worked great... after that point the wizard worked fine to set up the printer... Also the 4 port switch is going to come in very handy until I decide to get ride of my old computer and put it's wireless PCI card into the new computer I built...
It's kind of funny how everyone makes their routers with WPA-PSK security but the only advertising that their printservers support it is netgear...
By the way my HP Deskjet printer is not on the compatiblity list and it works... The key here is to have the print driver installed on your computer. Once the info leaves your computer it's formated all the print server does is forward it to the printer it doesn't need to know anything about what kind of printer you Review: As a wireless bridge, simple and easy
Summary: 5 Stars I have a basement office that I connect to the family room cable modem and router through a wireless usb device. That has worked intermittently. I also have 6 computers I use for LAN parties and I have wanted to be able to have a separate cluster of machines in the basement for team oriented head to head play. Every time, I have needed to test multiple machines on new software or do upgrades, I have had to haul machines upstairs.
Enter this print server. I followed the steps I read in these reviews:
1) Turn off the router's internal firewall.
2) Make sure you pre-assign a range of IP addresses that extend into the 100s (192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.150) should do it.
3) Set the print server on a PC and turn off its firewall
3) Run the install software. It will detect the router's SSD.
4) Go back to the router and turn the firewall back on
5) Turn the firewall on the PC back on
I was able to install a second switch to my new wireless bridge (print server) and hook multiple machines to it. My connection the family room is now stable and I can give private space to a LAN team.
Works GREAT!
Customer Review: Great product and delivers as promised
Summary: 5 Stars
Having read some bad reviews *after* already purchasing this product, I was somewhat concerned. My printer (Lexmark E238) is not on the supported printers list, but the E232 which looks exactly the same is.
The first step is to connect it to your modem/router, however they never tell you that. There is a picture in the "Overview" section, but it's not clear that's the first thing to do which I found odd. Either way, the rest of the process was fairly straight forward.
I have a Netgear WGT624 v3 router and other users should note that the print server *changed the password on the router* to the default password and set the channel to 11. That certainly is not very user friendly or good security practice by any means, however if you know this ahead of time, it's not that big a deal to fix.
Besides the password/channel change, I simply can't complain about the product. Works great and is simple enough. I hope others have similar experiences.
Customer Review: Works great with HP Color Laserjet 3700
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband volunteers as a computer administrator at an elementary school. Someone donated an HP Color Laserjet 3700 printer (high quality, high volume color laser, no longer made). The only issue with the HP 3700 was that the network card was starting to fail; sometimes it worked, sometimes not. A new NIC for the 3700 was $200+ with no warranty. Tried the WGPS606 print server even though the HP 3700 was not on the supported list. It worked great. The trickiest part is setting up the print server initially, but even that is done with an easy-to-use software wizard. Configuring the client PCs to use the print server was VERY easy; took less than 1 minute on each PC - just put in the Resource CD and follow the prompts to install on a PC.
The great thing is that this print server supports two printers, has a 4 port wired switch, and can be used as a wireless G access point. For the price, functionality, and ease of setup I gladly give this 5 stars.