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I know there are certain brands that have a wireless card option but for those that do not have this option how can you setup a copier in a wireless environment? Is this even possible?

I know you can hook up a cat5 cable to a wireless router then the others can use that wirelessly but sometimes this is not possible based on the physical location of the of the router.

Thoughts?
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Thanks for the feedback. To be on the safe side I ended up snaking a 100 foot Cat5 cable back to the fast ethernet switch. I just was not too sure on the stability or how to setup one of these units.

When you plug the cat5 into the copier are you using the wireless print server or the wireless bridge? Some wireless print server do not have the bridge from what I read.

Can someone explain how to configure one of these units so we all can learn.

JasonR what make/model are you using?
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Originally posted by mansart:
Do the wireless print servers mentioned also allow for scanning back the the network?


To clarify, what I'm using is actually a wireless bridge that connects the network card on the MFP via a cat5 cable to the bridge which connects to the wireless network.

http://www.cdw.com/shop/produc...al-Band/1700151.aspx

By doing that, you are connected to the network and can do anything you would be able to do with a direct network connection (scanning, etc.).

If you get a USB wireless print server, you would not be able to do anything but print (which excludes scanning, but does include print-to-fax).

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