Bargain Even though I really did need a standalone print server (4 computers running a smorgasbord of O/S's with removeable drives for different operationg systems)what prompted me to
buy this ($65/free shipping/no sales tax)was the mixture of reviews. I thought, this can't be that hard to setup. I believe
most people who have a problem with this is that they don't understand basic networking 101. I found using ME/2000/XP a breeze. I did not install any of configuration tools that come with ...
[Netgear PS101 Mini Print Server review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 |  |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 09/16/2004 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (10 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Mac fans - this works After a herky jerky start, my rating of this product jumped from 2 stars to 4. Don't fret Mac owners. If you are trying to integrate your Mac OS X system to print to the Netgear PS101, there is a solution: configure your Mac for IP printing, set the printer type to LPD/LPR, enter the print server IP address, input the queue name, example HPLASER4L_P1 (netgear device name_printer port), and make sure you select the right printer model. If you select Generic or any other model than your printe...
[Netgear PS101 Mini Print Server review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 8.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 11/09/2003 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
95% (83 of 87) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Works fine but is not bi-directional I am disapointed in the Netgear PS101 in that it is not bi-directional. It will not report low ink cartridges, paper out, or other printer status functions. My printer is a Canon i550. Otherwise it works great and was very easy to set up.
My Canon i550 has a USB port as well. I set up the computer beside the printer to use that port and it is bi-directional, providing feedback on printer status. Printer seems to work well using both the parallel and USB.
[Netgear PS101 Mini Print Server review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 6.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 11/11/2003 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
91% (11 of 12) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Works as expected I would have given it 5 stars, but the unit is too big to fit correctly in the back of a Laserjet 5MP. So I will have to buy a Centronics 36 M/F extension cable, but in the mean time, I have the printer cable cover off. It would have been nice if Netgear included a 6" cable extension.
It's very easy to get working without touching the CD and having to install any software. I can print from a W2K server and a XP workstation. The steps, I used were:
1. Get the MAC add...
[Netgear PS101 Mini Print Server review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 8.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 09/15/2005 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
90% (19 of 21) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Good Product, Wrong Solution I had my HP1100A networked to my LAN over a SOHOWARE Plug&Play mini port print server for the past 3 years. Product worked great out of the box except I had to build a special interface because the SOHOWARE print server has a standard Centronics-36 interface and the Laserjet has a Mini-Centronics-C connector. When I started upgrading my PCs to WinXP I found that this print server, while it worked under Win98/2000 perfectly, wasn't compatible with XP and had been discontinued by the maker anywa...
[Netgear PS101 Mini Print Server review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 6.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 09/30/2004 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
88% (24 of 27) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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A year of anger and frustration I have bought this print server for about a year, and it brought me nothing but anger and frustration every time I wanted to print something.First of all, you could not just send your print out to the server. You had to ping it first to "wake it up." Otherwise, it wouldn't respond to the client. Then, sometimes even pinging wouldn't work. The server responded to ping but I still couldn't print. The client on my PC kept telling me that there wasn't a server. Rebooting the serv...
[Netgear PS101 Mini Print Server review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 2.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 07/12/2004 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
60% (6 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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This is another awesome product from Netgear Update on 09/12/2005.
My home network is growing now. I didn't mention in the original message was that I aslo used the SMC7004VBR Router. That baby only has 4 ports. It is not enough for me anymore. Recently I added a SMC EZ Switch 108FDT that has 8 ports. I aslo added another color printer HP Officejet 7100 to the network. Now my network carries (1)Win98 SE, (1)Win2000 Pro SP4, (5)WinXP pro SP2, (1)HP Laser Jet6L and (1) HP Officejet 7100. There is no any problems at all. I just d...
[Netgear PS101 Mini Print Server review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 06/06/2005 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (7 of 7) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Worked for one week, support worthless. Two links into Netgear's support page for this thing, you'll find this: "The Print Server Buffer, is only 64K, so large print jobs are nearly always not executed correctly or at all."For me, this piece of junk worked for one week. I guess it worked because I only tried to print some one and two page documents that week. Then I printed a 30 page pdf document. It stopped printing after 25 pages and has never worked again. I can't count how many hours I've spent on the phone with ...
[Netgear PS101 Mini Print Server review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 2.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/09/2004 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
77% (7 of 9) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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I've had no problems Original May 2, 2004
I run the IT at a medical office in a semi rural area. We wanted to add a second network printer. (Our existing printer is an HP2200DN). We could buy a stocked HP 2300 at a fairly good price but would have to order the HP network version which is an HP2300N and at List Price to get the built in print server. So instead, we got a Netgear PS101 to go with the HP2300. All I wanted was something that could work fairly well compared to the HP print server and we could save ...
[Netgear PS101 Mini Print Server review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/02/2004 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (7 of 7) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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works great with win98 pcs
[Netgear PS101 Mini Print Server review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 8.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 08/19/2003 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (7 of 7) Users Found This Review Helpful |