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D-Link DP-311U Wireless Print Server, 1-USB Port, 802.11b, 11Mbps Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Hard to install
Comment: Although I'm not a computer novice, this unit was hard to install. While the green LAN (Ethernet) light came on when plugged into the router or DSL modem, it didn't work when plugged directly into my PC or laptop. Someone here wrote that in such case you need a "crossover" ethernet cable (or adapter). THANK YOU! I learned that routers have the smarts to figure our what type of unit is plugged in, and automatically assign transmit and receive signals to the proper pins. My PC and laptops didn't do that, and the DP-311U wasn't smart enough either. Hence I needed the cross-over cable (just for the one-time setup). Sad thing, before I figured this out, I spoke with 2 people at D-Link's technical support; we spent easily two hours. But neither one suggested the cross-over cable. They must have had tons of calls like this before. Of course, the manual says mothing about this either. Amazing how they waste time and money.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Works Great, after you're done setting up it up...
Comment: The server works great on my HP 2200. It's fast, reliable and can be easily velcro-ed to the side. Downside, it's got to be the single most difficult piece of hardware I've ever had to setup. NO WIZARD! Anyway, I followed the instructions to the letter and after setting my network IP address back to normal, the box would cease to work. I tried a bunch of things to get it to work, but in the end it was something simple. I'm using a Netgear WGR614v6 which is set to be a DHCP server. The list of available IP addresses missed the default 192.168.0.10 so the computer could not recognize it. I changed the DP-311U's default IP address in the PSadmin program and BAM! Works first try! The morale of the story, if you're running a DHCP server, check the list of IP addresses.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Didn't work
Comment: Wouldn't work with my HP K80. I guess I should have done more research

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Difficult setup, works after it gets going
Comment: I could not get the wireless portion to connect for a while. While searching for a solution, this site was at the top of the list so I decided to post my fix here.

It seems that when the 311U is configured using the ancient-looking PS Admin utility, it has a small bug/feature. PS Admin converts the wireless SSID to ALL CAPS where as my wireless network name has mixed case. Talking directly to the 311U, via a web browser, I was able to set the SSID correctly and get m'self up and running.

Hope this helps.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Configuration is big task
Comment: I bought the product 2 weeks before and I have a thought this will work with all printers but not. D Link technical support is very bad I called at least 10 times to find my printer is compatible or not.

User manual is not complete so configuration is very difficult. Changing the IP Address manually and re assigning the new IP Address is very difficult. And it cause problem for other wireless divices (Mouse,Keyboard,Wireless web camera and External wireless hard disk). Because of this product I spend almost 8 hrs to solve other wireless network issues.

If you have enough time then it will entertain you.

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