On Saturday, August 14, 2004, at 11:14 PM, Jack Russell wrote:
Phone Net connectors. Try the Low End Mac swap list, flea bay, and Craig's list. The brand we used to use was called FastNet, made in Taiwan. Farralon was another major supplier. The phone net system had the advantage of using cheap telephone wire and running up to 32 Apple Talk using de
If you (original poster) need to have more (macs are easiest, although solutions exist for other OSes) CPUs talk to that printer via Appletalk, you can also put that printer on your ethernet network (if it exists) with a "ethermac iPrint adapter", $10-20 on ebay. This solution would be a lot faster, too. There's older hardware that will do this, too.
I'm not sure what your goals are but it sounds like you want to expand this network... if you have a LAN going already you can just use your existing infrastructure (I guess you could check your current router to make sure it will let the ethertalk packets thru, in case the Etherprint doesn't do Appleshare/IP).
FWIW.
Brian
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