XPHome SP2; Netgear WPGS606; two printers, two notebooks

Windows XP Home, SP2, installed on two different notebook computers in two
different rooms.

Both computers have Wireless capability.

Gateway notebook has internal wifi.
HP Pavilion notebook uses USB Linksys wireless b adapter (802.11b).

We use Verizon as Internet Provider and their wireless router: Webtel 327W.

Both computers work fine having acceptable Internet access from the wireless
router..

Have Canon MP130 (MFP) all in one printer and a newly purchased HP LaserJet
1020, which is a host based printer.

Both printer seem compatible with the wgps 606, from my research.

Want to print wirelessly (I understand the other multi functions of the
Canon will not work, unless it is hard wired to a computer) from either
computer to either or both printers, which are to be connected to print
server.

So.............

I purchased a Netgear WGPS 606.

Can not get a solid connection from the print server to either of the
computers via Ethernet cable or wireless.

Netgear tech support are baffled even sent me a new print server. That
doesn't work either.

No connection, either hard wired via Ethernet cable or wireless can be made
from print server to HP or Gateway notebooks.

The HP Pavilion is the main notebook which I have been trying to access the
print server from/ to..

Not been able to get that far yet, to determine if either printer will print
when and if the WGPS gets connected to the router.


Or,
here is why I made this posting,

is there a preferred configuration I can set up to make printing happen as
if from a 'network'?

If that is please explain how I must do it, as if from a network, then I
will have to have both printers connected to the HP Pavilion and turn the HP
Pavilion on when we wish to print from the Gateway,

this is what I am trying to avoid if at all possible,

and that is why I purchased the WGPS 606, but the WGPS 606 seems not to work
at all.


Again, both computers use XP Home, SP2,

and if system is networked via Windows then am I correct that printing can
only be done anyway when one printer is turned on and connected to the
computer?

Please advise.

If I must network the computers to the printers wirelessly via the Webtel
wireless router and the HP Pavilion, and NOT use the Netgear WGPS 606,

please give most detailed instructions possible.


Thank you in advance,
Robert

BY THE WAY, I use Comodo firewall and Avast Antivirus.

Robert






"Robert J. Lafayette" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Windows XP Home, SP2, installed on two different notebook computers in two
> different rooms.
>
> Both computers have Wireless capability.
>
> Gateway notebook has internal wifi.
> HP Pavilion notebook uses USB Linksys wireless b adapter (802.11b).
>
> We use Verizon as Internet Provider and their wireless router: Webtel
> 327W.
>
> Both computers work fine having acceptable Internet access from the
> wireless router..
>
> Have Canon MP130 (MFP) all in one printer and a newly purchased HP
> LaserJet 1020, which is a host based printer.
>
> Both printer seem compatible with the wgps 606, from my research.
>
> Want to print wirelessly (I understand the other multi functions of the
> Canon will not work, unless it is hard wired to a computer) from either
> computer to either or both printers, which are to be connected to print
> server.
>
> So.............
>
> I purchased a Netgear WGPS 606.
>
> Can not get a solid connection from the print server to either of the
> computers via Ethernet cable or wireless.
>
> Netgear tech support are baffled even sent me a new print server. That
> doesn't work either.
>
> No connection, either hard wired via Ethernet cable or wireless can be
> made from print server to HP or Gateway notebooks.
>
> The HP Pavilion is the main notebook which I have been trying to access
> the print server from/ to..
>
> Not been able to get that far yet, to determine if either printer will
> print when and if the WGPS gets connected to the router.
>
>
> Or,
> here is why I made this posting,
>
> is there a preferred configuration I can set up to make printing happen as
> if from a 'network'?
>
> If that is please explain how I must do it, as if from a network, then I
> will have to have both printers connected to the HP Pavilion and turn the
> HP Pavilion on when we wish to print from the Gateway,
>
> this is what I am trying to avoid if at all possible,
>
> and that is why I purchased the WGPS 606, but the WGPS 606 seems not to
> work at all.
>
>
> Again, both computers use XP Home, SP2,
>
> and if system is networked via Windows then am I correct that printing can
> only be done anyway when one printer is turned on and connected to the
> computer?
>
> Please advise.
>
> If I must network the computers to the printers wirelessly via the Webtel
> wireless router and the HP Pavilion, and NOT use the Netgear WGPS 606,
>
> please give most detailed instructions possible.
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Robert
>

Got printing network set up by adjusting firewall settings.

thank you.
Robert


"Robert J. Lafayette" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> BY THE WAY, I use Comodo firewall and Avast Antivirus.
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Robert J. Lafayette" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Windows XP Home, SP2, installed on two different notebook computers in
>> two different rooms.
>>
>> Both computers have Wireless capability.
>>
>> Gateway notebook has internal wifi.
>> HP Pavilion notebook uses USB Linksys wireless b adapter (802.11b).
>>
>> We use Verizon as Internet Provider and their wireless router: Webtel
>> 327W.
>>
>> Both computers work fine having acceptable Internet access from the
>> wireless router..
>>
>> Have Canon MP130 (MFP) all in one printer and a newly purchased HP
>> LaserJet 1020, which is a host based printer.
>>
>> Both printer seem compatible with the wgps 606, from my research.
>>
>> Want to print wirelessly (I understand the other multi functions of the
>> Canon will not work, unless it is hard wired to a computer) from either
>> computer to either or both printers, which are to be connected to print
>> server.
>>
>> So.............
>>
>> I purchased a Netgear WGPS 606.
>>
>> Can not get a solid connection from the print server to either of the
>> computers via Ethernet cable or wireless.
>>
>> Netgear tech support are baffled even sent me a new print server. That
>> doesn't work either.
>>
>> No connection, either hard wired via Ethernet cable or wireless can be
>> made from print server to HP or Gateway notebooks.
>>
>> The HP Pavilion is the main notebook which I have been trying to access
>> the print server from/ to..
>>
>> Not been able to get that far yet, to determine if either printer will
>> print when and if the WGPS gets connected to the router.
>>
>>
>> Or,
>> here is why I made this posting,
>>
>> is there a preferred configuration I can set up to make printing happen
>> as if from a 'network'?
>>
>> If that is please explain how I must do it, as if from a network, then I
>> will have to have both printers connected to the HP Pavilion and turn the
>> HP Pavilion on when we wish to print from the Gateway,
>>
>> this is what I am trying to avoid if at all possible,
>>
>> and that is why I purchased the WGPS 606, but the WGPS 606 seems not to
>> work at all.
>>
>>
>> Again, both computers use XP Home, SP2,
>>
>> and if system is networked via Windows then am I correct that printing
>> can only be done anyway when one printer is turned on and connected to
>> the computer?
>>
>> Please advise.
>>
>> If I must network the computers to the printers wirelessly via the
>> Webtel wireless router and the HP Pavilion, and NOT use the Netgear WGPS
>> 606,
>>
>> please give most detailed instructions possible.
>>
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Robert
>>
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