hook up a wireless printer server to my laptop?
I have a laptop with a wireless card. I bought a Belkin wireless printer server. I guess I didn’t read the fine print. I thought all I had to do was plug the printer into the servers usb port, run the wizard and poof wireless printing. Now someone tells me i need a router. I don’t know how, but i need to hook up a home network with two laptops and two printers (unfortunately i’m on dial up as that’s all that’s offered here in the mountains)Can someone take me step by step through what i need to buy and how to hook it up?
thanks, I’m lost
Phil
You can try this but it may not work – it is a guess.
Wire the laptop to the printer by USB. Install printer to the laptop with the CD that came with the printer. Make sure the printer can print wired. Print a test page. When it can print wired, disconnect the USB cable.
Power on the wireless print server. Plug the wireless print server into the laptop as your manual shows you in order to set it up for the first time. Configure it with the disk that came with it. When configured, remove the CD and reboot the laptop.
Plug the printer into the wireless print server while the laptop is rebooting. Click on the wireless network connection icon on the task bar in the far right corner of the screen. Navigate you way to where you can pick or connect to a wireless network around you. If you can see the printer server, great. If not, you need a wireless router. I’m partial to netgear because the configure easy (at least for me).
I did something similar above trying to get my new Vista laptop to hook to my old print server. However, I am on a wireless router – netgear of course.
Office depot and Best buy have them on sale here.
Merry Christmas.
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