Dear John,
What sort of cable do I need between the two ethernet ports? Can
you suggest a model or brand of router?
Mark
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 15:02:59 -0500
Subject: Re: [SM] Asante Ethernet to Local talk
From: John Teffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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on 12/25/03 1:58 PM, Mark Jay Mirsky at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just took over my son's old 400 G-4 Yikes model, and have it on
> the other side of my desk with my S-900. I am wondering how to print from
> the the G-4 to my two local talk, or serial port printers, a Lexmark Optra
> R+ and a HP 6MP Laser Jet. Neither have ethernet connections and I thought
> of getting that local talk to Ethernet Asante router but it has a stiff
> price, about eighty dollars or up.
>You can use your S-900 as a Localtalk to Ethernet bridge. That's what I do
to allow printing to a Localtalk Laserwriter from both my S900 and
girlfriend's imac.
>The two computers are connected via Ethernet and a router to a cable modem,
>and just the S-900 is conneced via a serial cable to the Laserwriter. As
>long as the S900 is on, the iMac can print to it too.
> Are there any advantages to printing
> through the Ethernet Local talk connector on the S-900. It's almost cheaper
> to go the route of buying a Samsung USB laser printer at J&R but if the
> local talk to Ethernet will speed up the S-900 printing I might go that
> way.
>Doing it the way I state above just takes the free Localtalk Ethernet Bridge
>software, available from Apple.
>If you buy a hardware bridge, I don't think you will gain much if any speed,
>because the computers still communicate with the printer over a slow
>AppleTalk serial cable connection between the printer and bridge.
>The only benefit that the hardware bridge gives is that you wouldn't need to
>turn on the S900 every time you wanted to print something from the G4. I've
>also noticed that my S900 takes a small performance hit while something is
>being printed through it from the iMac, mouse gets slightly jerky, lag in
>opening windows, etc.
>You might as well try the free solution first:
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