Trick needed for MAC/OSX printserving; 2x price of Motorola WPS870G I have a wirelss network w/3 pc's, one Mac Powerbook, w/netgear router, and now the WGPS606 netgear printserver (my motorola WPS870G was half the $$$ and easier to set up on my Powerbook, but got killed by lightning storm yesterday); I have an old laserjet & HP officejet d145. Contrary to rumors, you can get the WPS870G to printserve wirelessly from Mac/OSX through the network (i.e., powerbook is wireless, printserver is also wireless)
1-I set a dedicated IP address in my router to a...
[Netgear WGPS606 Wireless Print Server 54 Mbps w/ 4 Port Switch review by P. Benda can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | P. Benda | | Review Date: | 07/16/2005 | | User Location: | Virginia | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
91% (41 of 45) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Simply not worth the effort Netgear generally makes okay products. I use several of them without complaint.
I had hoped to use the WGPS606 Wireless Print Server, but it just isn't worth the effort to bothet with it. It's going back for a refund.
Before you consider purchasing one, consult the Netgear web site to see if it is compatible with your printer. The list is surprisingly short. Multi-function devices, other than the print function, are not supported. Nor at this point is Windows Vista, but...
[Netgear WGPS606 Wireless Print Server 54 Mbps w/ 4 Port Switch review by Jerry Saperstein can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Jerry Saperstein | | Review Date: | 12/02/2006 | | User Location: | Evanston, IL USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
81% (26 of 32) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Works great as a Wireless Bridge I'm not reviewing this on the Print Server functionality, since I don't actually use it for that. As another reviewer stated in his review, this is the only reasonably priced, widely available wireless bridge I could find. I have a lot of wired network devices in one room upstairs with the router and modem in my landlord's office downstairs. Rather than buy wireless cards for all those devices or run a wire downstairs, this did the trick. I plug everything (including another switch) into thi...
[Netgear WGPS606 Wireless Print Server 54 Mbps w/ 4 Port Switch review by D. Whiting can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | D. Whiting | | Review Date: | 02/22/2006 | | User Location: | Carlsbad, CA USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (9 of 9) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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WPA Connection is not reliable I'm a fairly technical person, that does computer security for a living so I tend to never use wizards or read directions (unless absolutely necessary). My primary router / gateway at home is the Linksys WRT54G - one of the best featured routers and most reliable (one of few routers with Dynamic DNS which is very helpful for accessing hosted remote services at home like FTP, Web or Email). I purchased the Netgear WGPS606 to enable wireless print capability to my Brother HL-5140 Laser Printer.<...
[Netgear WGPS606 Wireless Print Server 54 Mbps w/ 4 Port Switch review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 6.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 11/24/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
87% (7 of 8) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Piece of cake I read scary reviews about print servers and was very reluctant to buy one, however, I eventually broke down and bought the Netgear WGPS606, 54Mbps. I was shocked that it was a piece of cake to install. The wizard spoon feeds you the installation steps. 1) You make sure that the printer you want to share has a driver installed on the computer (any computer can be used to configure your computer). 2) You disconnect your computer from your router (if applicable) and connect the print server via...
[Netgear WGPS606 Wireless Print Server 54 Mbps w/ 4 Port Switch review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 04/03/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (6 of 6) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Set and forget product This product really is set and forget. Since I set it up, I was able to get roommates and friends on-line to use it. You basically print to it like any other printer hooked directly onto your computer. Since I got it, which is about 6 months back, I have not reset it once. There are 3 things to note: 1) The only time it fails is when the main wireless access point fails. 2) You have run VPN to your corporate network, your corporate network may block you from using the printer in your home n...
[Netgear WGPS606 Wireless Print Server 54 Mbps w/ 4 Port Switch review by H2 can be read at buy.com] | | buy.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | H2 | | Review Date: | 05/29/2006 | | User Location: | Tucson, AZ | | Review From: | User Review |  | | |
100% (5 of 5) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Quick setup on two PCs and a Mac G4 I needed a way to hook an old Dell desktop, an old IBM ThinkPad, and an old Mac G4 to an old HP Laserjet. The newest piece of this hardware is three years old. My router is a new Belkin N1 (which I really like) and it's located upstairs. Initial configuration of the print server and setup on the first PC took about 20 minutes, setup on the second PC about 5 minutes and setup on the Mac about 20 minutes. Here's what I did:
1. Configured the Print Server
a. connected my ThinkP...
[Netgear WGPS606 Wireless Print Server 54 Mbps w/ 4 Port Switch review by Syl Arena can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Syl Arena | | Review Date: | 08/18/2006 | | User Location: | Paso Robles, California | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (5 of 5) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great As Long As You Don't Use Their Wizard And Get Instructions From Website 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 poin...
[Netgear WGPS606 Wireless Print Server 54 Mbps w/ 4 Port Switch review by Jerome Koble "Tecky" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Jerome Koble "Tecky" | | Review Date: | 01/23/2006 | | User Location: | Fargo ND | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (5 of 5) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Minimum but adequate We use it for a wired switch and as a USB print server. It works fine provided you don't touch anything after. Ever. It is not plug-and-play with the USB ports and won't wake up a printer to print, if powered off, unlike a direct USB connect. I was unable to configure the device at one point because I swapped USB ports. The unit had to have a hard reset (remove power) in order to be reconfigured. Same when I powered down the printer and turned printer back on again. It could not recognize...
[Netgear WGPS606 Wireless Print Server 54 Mbps w/ 4 Port Switch review by K. Boivin "leapyeardad" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 6.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | K. Boivin "leapyeardad" | | Review Date: | 12/10/2005 | | User Location: | Nashua, NH United States | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (5 of 5) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Very easy setup - reliable so far... It took me less than 10 minutes to set up the WGPS606 on my home network (5 OS X Macs, 1 PC) using web-based configuration (http://198.162.0.102).
The server quickly detected and connected to my existing wireless network. Signal strength of 65% (length of house & separate floors) gives us very good WAN/LAN connection speed. WEP encryption setup was simple.
I was able to connect an Epson R200 to one of the 2 USB ports, and had that running well in only a few minutes.
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[Netgear WGPS606 Wireless Print Server 54 Mbps w/ 4 Port Switch review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/17/2005 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (5 of 5) Users Found This Review Helpful |