Product Description
The Hawking HWPS1UG Wireless USB Print Server is a powerful and convenient tool to connect your USB printers to your existing wireless 802.11b or 802.11g wireless network. Through its enhanced functionality, the HWPS1UG can support a USB printer on either a wired or wireless 802, 11b or 802, 11g network. The Hawking HWPS1UG combined with the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) lets you easily connect to any printer and print documents by specifying the print server's IP address. With IPP technology, printing over a WAN or the Internet becomes much easier. You can send a print job to a printer in another country just as easily as sending a print job to your home or office printer. IPP eliminates the need for fax communications between offices. Simply print an original document through the HWPS1UGa?s IPP capabilities and send it from one office to another. The print quality from IPP printing is equal to that of a document printed from your local office. With the HWPS1UG, your printer become a fully functional networked print station.
Customer Reviews:
prints garbage or blank pages.......2007-04-30
I purchased this pint server for an onsite office that is totally wireless (wireless desktops - wasn't my decision for them to be wireless, but that's beside the point).
In any case, installation wasn't difficult. However, the office has called me on two separate occasions to tell me their printer is now printing garbled code or blank pages. It might print a couple of good pages followed by bad pages. It's not a driver issue as they are using the same driver they used when their printer was hooked up to one of their desktops.
I called tech support which has been outsourced to India by the way, and they were not of much help. Told me to reboot the computer and the print server.
I'm going to call again and ask for level 2 support. It's possible that this print server is not compatible with their printer..not sure.
I'm giving this 2 stars only because it was easy to set up. But that's it. Piece of garbage.
It works!.......2007-03-12
I bought another wireless print server and it was the darnedest thing. It wouldn't work for me. The Hawking was much easier set up and less expensive then the rest of them. I haven't used the it wireless, yet, but it works just fine hooked up to a router. I would recommend this for anyone!
Not all printers supported.......2007-02-13
While one of my printers does work with this device the printer that I purchased this device for does NOT work with it. I sent a note to support asking for help but to-date have had no reply.
my unit worked, but required patience and a bit of know-how.......2007-01-15
I found the setup for this print server to be very finicky. However, if your unit is functional and your printer is compatible, the product does indeed do what it's designed to do.
These add-on IP products are really ill-suited for the consumer retail space, as there are too many variables to ensure plug and play, trouble-free installation. If you don't know how to make changes to your router's LAN gateway and DHCP settings (among other things), stay away from this or any add-on print server. Save yourself a massive headache and hours of frustration and buy a router with a built-in print server (and just live with the inconvenience of situating the printer near the router).
If you're still reading and know what you're doing, here's a handful of tips (assuming you've made the necessary gateway and DHCP changes to your router first):
1) Make sure that your router's SSID is being broadcast during the print server installation. During the setup's site survey, the print server seems to think that a non-broadcast SSID is the same as a blank SSID; and when it looks for your router for the first time post-setup, it will be expecting to find a blank SSID (even though you might have entered in manually the SSID). Strangely, however, it seems that you can disable the broadcasting of the router's SSID after installation, because now the print server seems to be looking for a router with a hidden SSID.
2) If you've done #1, and you still can't see your router during the setup utility site survey, ignore the site survey result and just manually enter the SSID and channel number into the utility. Even though my router didn't show up in the site survey results, the print server worked after I input the info manually.
3) If you just can't seem to get the setup utility to work, try getting into the print server via your web browser and use IPP to install the printer as a networked IP printer.
4) If possible, keep the printer/server combo well within range of your wireless router. This thing HATES interference or a weak signal, and seems get thrown offline easily under poor wireless conditions.
5) If your wireless setup just won't work, the print server makes a perfectly fine, if expensive, wired print server.
6) Ditto to the other negative comments on the poor documentation, but here's an added frustration: Hawking's support page for this product does not include a download for the Installation Guide or the User's Manual, SO DON'T LOSE THESE ITEMS. Even though the documentation isn't great, it does include vital info on the defaults settings. When your print server requires the inevitable hard reset, and you neither kept the manuals nor wrote down your setup info, you will cry like a baby.
Unit Works But Install Software is Weak.......2007-01-12
The unit does work. On Windows XP the install software will set up the print driver on the network, but often won't recognize that a USB printer is plugged in and subsequently refuses to let you load a printer driver to the device, e.g. Canon printers. You can get around this by trying to open the print server printer port directly from the Windows network. Windows will recognize that no printer driver is loaded on the print server and ask you if you want to load a driver. You may also have to create a Standard TCP/IP Port to use with your printer
<> print server connection. Nothing about any of this in the documentation. Web site tech support for this unit does not exist. Email tech support turn around is usually within 24 hours. Don't buy this unit if you don't want to play around getting it installed. On the other hand, this unit can be found at some very low prices right now. Its a trade off.
Product Description
The Hawking HWPS1UG Wireless USB Print Server is a powerful and convenient tool to connect your USB printers to your existing wireless 802.11b or 802.11g wireless network. Through its enhanced functionality, the HWPS1UG can support a USB printer on either a wired or wireless 802, 11b or 802, 11g network. The Hawking HWPS1UG combined with the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) lets you easily connect to any printer and print documents by specifying the print server's IP address. With IPP technology, printing over a WAN or the Internet becomes much easier. You can send a print job to a printer in another country just as easily as sending a print job to your home or office printer. IPP eliminates the need for fax communications between offices. Simply print an original document through the HWPS1UGa?s IPP capabilities and send it from one office to another. The print quality from IPP printing is equal to that of a document printed from your local office. With the HWPS1UG, your printer become a fully functional networked print station.
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Harmony 720 Universal Remote Control -Mass Merchants only
Customer Reviews:
Great remote .......2007-12-27
After much research, I decided to buy the 720 instead of the 880. The 720 provides many functions and features that the 880 has. The remote was very easy to program. I was able to program the remote to control my xbox 360, HDDVD, tv, reciever, and satellite reciever. I got it to work the firt time I tried it. I read a couple of threads on AVS forum on how to properly program the remote, so I was pretty much prepared on what to expect.
The remote does a great job. I have customized it to my likes such as my favorite shows, slide show, and activities icons. This is a really good investment. The price might seem high at first, but the remote essentially pays for itself in the long run. Now my wife can do any activity with my system by the simple press of the button. This remote is better than any of the original remotes for my components. Overall I would highly recommend it to any in search of nice remote.
overpriced and overrated.......2007-12-04
i bought one of these from a warehouse club at a clearance price and i'm glad i didn't pay full price...the hype and marketing from logitech would lead you to believe that you connect your remote to your computer, connect to their database, enter your products and you're done..that wasn't my experience at all, the software i needed wasn't on the disc, i had to d/l 60 megs of software before i could even use the basic functions of the remote..after entering all my info i discovered that there is a bit of troubleshooting to do in order to achieve anything useable from such an expensive device and even then i wasn't impressed..to date it still has a problem trying to figure out which input to use when i want to watch a dvd and it pales in simple commands when compared to my remote from comcast, with my remote from comcast i can change the channel on the cable box and adjust the volume on the tv without having to change the function keys..on the Harmony remote i have to switch the remote from cable to TV in order to accomplish the same task, there just might be a way to make it behave similar to my comcast remote but at this point i don't have the patience as i'd rather learn something that i could benefit me in my career...
Harmony 720 Remote.......2007-11-11
I have this remote about 2 weeks. This remote is working great. I am very happy with it.
Great remote--some minor set up problem.......2007-10-14
Over a week ago I received the Harmony 720. It looks sharp, and I love the way it wakes up the LCD screen when you pick it up. I just upgraded my home theatre with a Toshiba LCD, Oppo DVD, Brighthouse HD DVR and a Onkyo SR705 receiver all of which have HDMI. I had a pre-existing old Sony CD carousel.
You first have to register your device on the Harmony web site. The set up is very intuitive for a basic set up. After 15 minutes I was ready to go. Every thing worked great except when I selected "Play DVD" on the activity menu, The TV, DVD player, and the Receiver turned on--but alas no video signal to the TV. I tried screwing around for an hour or so. It is easy to make changes in your setup and then download changes to the remote with the included USB cable. I then resorted to the support line--yes there was a wait, but I was treated nicely and patiently by the support folks. The first person was essentially scripted and when she couldn't get things working she passed me to an intermediate level support. It was 9PM and no I wasn't talking to Bangalore, but a gentleman in Toronto. The problem turned out to be a timing issue with the DVD's HDMI port. The nifty thing is that support can change the settings on their server and you then download the changes to the remote--then walk to the TV and see if they got it right. After some fine tuning it is working well. It is great to put away the five remotes it is replacing. Some of the buttons are small, but the HD DVR remote that replaced the remote for the non-HD DVR had some really crowded tiny buttons. All in all a great remote so far.
Seems like a great remote so far! .......2007-10-04
Purchased the Harmony 720 about a month ago and it's been going great. The only issue i'm run into is the set up. A slip of my pointer during the instillaiton process on my Mac and I said "Yes" that the remote was a Harmony 1000 instead. After repeatedly uninstalling and reinstalling the software to not avail, I finally called Logitech. I could not get the software to recognise my Harmony 720. I could not get the prompt to show up again. Level 1 tech support is very weak. They took me through all the same procedures that i already attempted. They required me to be on phone while on the internet with the controler attached to my computer. This was VERY basic support. After talking to tech support for over an hour, I was finally sent to level 2 support. Only then did they tell me about a file that needed deletion in a configuation file deep in my Mac. That allowed me to say no to the Hamony 1000 question again, and only then did the setup procedure work. Set up went smoothly from there. Selecting components is easy. The battery has a great lifespan. Good reception with the IR. No other issues at all. Once I got past the user error issue, the Harmony 720 works great!!
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