D-Link DP-101P+ Pocket Ethernet Print Server

 (9 customer reviews)

Through no fault of this excellent product I was only able to use it for a week - I inherited an old Lexmark Z11 inkjet that I wanted to share between two laptops in my corporate apartment, but wound up replacing the Lexmark with an USB-only printer.What makes this such an excellent product is the ease of installation and the fact that it flawlessly works. Installing it consisted of attaching the device directly to the printer's parallel interface, connecting an Ethernet cable to the RJ-45 port on the other side of the print server, running the CD ROM installation and being able to immediately print to a shared printer.One of the things I most like is the installation and configuration utility that ships with this device. You get an administration program (you can also access and administer the print server through a browser or through a telnet session), and an "add printer" wizard that makes configuring other computers on your network easy. In fact, the "add printer" wizard...Read more

The challenge was to get this to work in the first place. The installation seemed straightforward, but I couldn't get it work on my laser printer (it would "wake up" and the data light would flash, but then nothing would print). I was able to get it to work with my inkjet from my Win98 desktop, but not from my Win2K laptop. I was later able to get it to work from my laptop by switching to LPR protocol, but then this stopped working the next day. When I checked the D-Link support website, it said that the print server doesn't support GDI printers and listed just about every current HP Deskjet model (including mine) as unsupported (what a relevation, even though I know it's not correct).After several frustrating days, I was about to pack it up and return it, but decided to give it one last try. I deleted the printers from my PCs and started over. Lo and behold, it worked this time with the laser printer on both my desktop and laptop PCs. And it has worked flawlessly...Read more

The only thing worse than this print server was DLink's support. Bottom line it would print nothing but gibberish. The first level guy has no idea. The second level guy actually admits that he knows nothing about the device and that I have more documentation than he does because I have the manual that came with the device. Wow! They don't even let there employee's download the electronic documentation from the web. Might just be a defective device, might have been some port setting that the second level support department didn't know about. I don't know. What I know is that the second level support represntitive didn't have the answers so he asked for my name and phone number and let me know that a senior technician would call me back. ETA 48 to 72 Hours. Long story short returned the Dlink and picked up a Hawking Technologies, PN7127P Print Server for the same price....worked out of the box.