March 9th, 2009 by Bob
walkon asked:
How do i setup my printer on a wireless network. printer does not have bluetooth or anything like that. I know it can be done but cant figure it out. any tips or how to advise would help.
Well Walkon, I could use some more information such as what OS you are using on your network & is your printer network ready?
In general here’s what you want to do:
Best choice - use a network ready printer. This way all you do is plug your printer into your router (have your router assign a permanent IP address), install printer drivers on your computers and point them to the printers IP address.
If your printer is not network ready you could buy a printer server devise. You would plug your printer into the print server and then you could address the printer by way of an IP address. I have not used a print server in a few years but going back two or three years, I did not find them very reliable but I would think they have fixed most of those issues by now.
The cheapest way to go is connect the printer right to one of your computers and share it with the network. There are a few drawbacks to this however.
1. You need to keep the computer that the printer is connected to, on 24/7 (this is not a bad thing, I never turn off my desktop computers, only my laptops) the reason being, if you are downstairs and send the print job to your computer upstairs, you’ll need to run upstairs to boot up the computer before you can use it’s printer.
2. You could bog down the computer the printer is connected to depending on the size of your print job and how much ram your printer has; if no one is on that computer it’s not a issue.
Hope this helped! If you would like you could PM me and I’ll try and walk you through it.
Tags: Network Printer, Printer Network, Wireless Network, Wireless Printer
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February 23rd, 2009 by Bob
I happy to report that all went well with the new home computer.
I reinstalled some of the programs like Microsoft Office, Skype, my wife’s favorite game and some other programs.
I bought two external hard drive cases and installed the two hard drives from my old computer into the USB HD cases. Now it’s a simple case of coping the data I need from the old hard drives to the new one. Even moving over the Microsoft mail contacts went well. All I did was click on import from inside Microsoft Mail and point it to the old contacts folder.
Just as a side note: Anytime you need information about computers or just about anything else you can think of, type it into Google search in the form of a question such as, where is, how to , what is, etc… You tend to get more relevant information this way.
I’m working on a new project The reason I mention it here is that this site will some how be involved, just not shore how yet, I’m still doing my research.
The project will cover:
* Home Repairs
* Computers
* Home Security
* Making Money Online
The general idea hear is, with the economy the way it is right now we all need to be making more money and saving more money. I have an interest in all these areas and I hope to bring them all under one roof either directly or by links. I’ll keep you informed and I go along. My goal is to have it up and running with in thirty days.
If you have ideas or comments you can post them below or you could DM me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/Rob202 .
Tags: Home Computer
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February 16th, 2009 by Bob
I had to make an emergency run to Best Buys yesterday to pick up a new computer. This was my first bought computer since my Radio Shack TRS-80. I’ve always built my own computers but I needed to be back up and running the same day.
I bought an HP with 6gigs of ram, 650g HD, ATI video card, 15 - 1 memory card slot on the front and some other goodies.
The first thing I did was remove Norton and install Pc-cillin Internet Security Pro. If you want a virus free, worry free system, INSTALL Pc-cillin!
So, how did I get myself into a situation where I needed to buy a computer? One day a few weeks ago my computer started to make noise. I could tell from the noise that one of my fans was going bad. So a few days later I rounded up some 80mm and 40mm fans and sat down and took the cover of my computer. Power supply fan, my intake fan and both out take fans were fine, even the CPU fans was working ok. However, a chip on the mother board had a heat sink/w fan on it and that was the one causing all the noise.
If I could do it over again I would have rigged up something but I didn’t. I figured I could live with the noise until I found the proper replacement heat sink and fan for the chip.
The long and short of it is the fan took a powder before I found a replacement and fried the chip. So instead of dropping $15 or $20 dollars I dropped $700 (doing my thing to help the economy).
So now I have an up to date computer system and I plan on getting a new mother board for the old computer. I’ll install Win 2000 or maybe Small Business Server (only because I have it) on it and make it a file server. This way I can back up all the other computers in the house onto the new server.
The moral of this story… Don’t ignore the noise, FIX the fans ASAP.
Tags: Fans, Heat Sinks, Hp
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