Wireless router to connect to peripherals?

Hi,

I connect my wireless-enabled laptop to the Net using a wireless router. The
router has four LAN ports and one WAN, plus WLAN.

Can I also wirelessly link the laptop to peripherals such as printer,
scanner, etc? (The peripherals have only USB ports, not ethernet.)

If the answer is yes, how do I do it and what other hardware do I need?

Thanks in advance for all helpful advice and comments.

Sorry, I should have made it clear that I want to connect to the peripherals
via the router. Thanks.

Terry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I connect my wireless-enabled laptop to the Net using a wireless router. The
> router has four LAN ports and one WAN, plus WLAN.
>
> Can I also wirelessly link the laptop to peripherals such as printer,
> scanner, etc? (The peripherals have only USB ports, not ethernet.)
>
> If the answer is yes, how do I do it and what other hardware do I need?
>
> Thanks in advance for all helpful advice and comments.
Depending on the printer, you most likely can buy a "print server" that
will provide an interface between the router and the printer. For
example only, Linksys has a couple: http://tinyurl.com/2bm3zs and
http://tinyurl.com/2292w5 The other consumer wireless companies (D-Link,
Netgear, etc., have similar products).

Until relatively recently, the generally-accepted wisdom was that
functions other than printing (e.g., scanning) don't work well (or at
all) through print servers. That said, however, starting this past
January, Linksys began offering a wireless print server that it claims
will give you "full access to printing, faxing, scanning, and copying
functions": http://tinyurl.com/39je8v I haven't seen any reviews of this
device, so I can't tell you how reliable/functional it is.
--
Lem MS MVP -- Networking

To the moon and back with 64 Kbits of RAM and 512 Kbits of ROM.
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Hi
There is stand alone USB Printer servers that can be connected to one of the
Router's LAN port, plugging a printer to this server should (in principle)
make it a Network printer.
However read this since it is not a straight forward affair,
http://www.ezlan.net/prtserver.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Terry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I connect my wireless-enabled laptop to the Net using a wireless router.
> The
> router has four LAN ports and one WAN, plus WLAN.
>
> Can I also wirelessly link the laptop to peripherals such as printer,
> scanner, etc? (The peripherals have only USB ports, not ethernet.)
>
> If the answer is yes, how do I do it and what other hardware do I need?
>
> Thanks in advance for all helpful advice and comments.