D-Link DP-311U Wireless Print Server, 1-USB Port, 802.11b, 11Mbps
by D-Link Systems, Inc.
|
List Price: Our Price: $70.00 You Save: $19.99 (22%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $9.99 (click here) Category: CE See more product details |
|---|
Customers in the UK,
Buy this product at amazon.co.uk
for British Pounds
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of D-Link DP-311U Wireless Print Server, 1-USB Port, 802.11b, 11Mbps
Customer Review: Solid, but tricky to setup
Summary: 3 Stars
As several other reviewers have noted, this can be a beast to setup. The difficulty, I found, comes to trying to get the dp-311u to work wirelessly. After 50 minutes of fiddling with it, I started to suspect that it might not be wireless (a mistake several other reviewers shared).
The steps given by s.banks below are better than the lousy manual. But even after following them I had trouble. I eventually found that it was the MAC address security filter on my router that was preventing this thing from working wirelessly. What you have to do is: add the device to the MAC filter list, then disable MAC filtering on the router, unplug the dp-311u, re-enable the MAC filtering, then turn on the 311-u. It then started working wirelessly.
I'm subtracting a star for the majorly painful setup, and another for the very limited printer compatibility list.
Other than that, it seems like a solid product.
Customer Review: useful for Macintoshes
Summary: 1 Stars
Having interfaced a QWEST ActionTec wireless DSL modem, a DirecTV satellite internet portal with a wireless router and then configured a Hawking wireless webcam, I figured I had a clue for getting a wireless printer server running for our Macs.
I'm sorry to say, I failed. I couldn't even figure out how to talk with this box. You might think they'd give it a number like 192.168.0.10 and let you connect to it, but it doesn't even connect via a wire.
While trying to figure out what was wrong, I found out the awful truth. The box doesn't even support IPP, so you can't use a Macintosh with a non-Postscript printer. I punted and returned the piece of junk.
P.S. The hint for the ActionTec modem: Rename your Macintosh COMPUTER when you are wired up to it or it will forget your settings when it reboots. (No I'm not making this up. Maybe all PCs are named COMPUTER or something).
Customer Review: worked for me with XP Home, Linux and HP d135
Summary: 5 Stars
I REALLY like the small size of this unit. It fits great into my new home office setup where I don't have a lot of space near the printer, or an easy way to route a long USB cable.It is true that the quick start guide is only for Windows XP. I was able to follow the instructions and get everything working on the first try. The only problems I had were with friggin' Windows, not the DP-311U.
Once I had it set up in Windows, I added the Linux connection to the DP-311u's LPR deamon via CUPS and it worked the first time.
I did not bother with the d-link admin program. I never inserted the CD into my CD drive.
Corrections to other postings: 1. This is definately wireless, you only need a 10BaseT wire when you first set it up. 2. There is a "Reset" button that must be pressed with a pin.
Customer Review: D-Link never again
Summary: 1 Stars
Had wireless running for a year with no problems. Purchased the DP-311u for my laser-fax, made sure it was compatible with the print server. got it hooked up and all went to hell. Called tech, spent 2 days with and went from a working network to a dead dls/router (another d-link product). they recomend I send it to them for a inspection and see if I can get a replacement (ha, ha I'd be paying for shipping and that's it, over a year you get nothing). Bought a new router by Bilkin went up and setup was a breeze. But the d-link print server could not be found by 3 other computers in my home, 3 more days on the phone. Finaly gave up and am returning the item, tech suppot has no clue, they have a limited time they are allowed to spend on the phone a any given call. I hope this helps any future buyers.Customer Review: Not plug-and-play, but works
Summary: 3 Stars
It took me (a computer engineer) a couple hours to figure out how to get this working. After trying DHCP (since the default IP address for the router isn't compatible with my cable modem's private sub-net) I couldn't talk to it at all through ethernet and had to by trial and error, figure out how to hard-reset it (power cycle while holding the reset button depressed). Then I could talk to it again, and just set its default IP address to one on my network (192.168.1.1). It's now been working great for weeks although I occasionally (3-5 days) need to power cycle it for some reason.I was also irritated that they didn't include a bit of ethernet patch cable for the initial setup in the package ...
Never-the-less, a very useful product, just needs some work on automatic configuration.