Cisco-Linksys PSUS4 PrintServer for USB with 4 Port Switch

I have completely no problem on installing and setting it up. I have a HP240 multimedia inkjet printer and 6 pcs, 5 connected to the hub and one laptop is wirelessly connected. I set up and installed this server by just following the instructions came in the box. After I installed the software driver, it immediately recognized my printer. The only thing I feel bothering is that every PC has to setup in order to recognize the printer. The setup is not difficult because once you installed the software in one PC, the print server driver is already available for every PC, all you have to do is to use the 'Add Printer' function of Windows to add the printer, using the driver that is already installed (it will show up in the drop down list). There is a trick when doing this. When you start the Add Printer function, it will keep asking you to provide a place to find the printer driver (which we need to use the driver that we have already installed, not the OEM driver), but you have no way to get that because it is not in the other PC. All you have to do is to use any dirver that Windows provides. After the printer is added,go back and modify it, locate the driver that we have already installed from the drop down list. That is it. So far I have no problem in using my printer from different PCs. Good price and good product.

The print server was installed on our network and worked sufficiently for two years. I would assume that that is all one can expect from this unit. It was replaced after two years with another model.

I installed the Linksys PSUS4 PrintServer yesterday for my home network consisting of Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux boxes.The installation for Linux was actually easier than for the Vista boxes which needed the installation for an additional driver coming with the installation CD.The quick start manual is a bit confusing on how to add to printer under Windows. The last step of the installation did not work for me or I must have misread or misunderstood something. I then tried to add the printer manually through Windows Add Printer function. There I was kind of confused again. I first thought that I have to choose the "Add Network Printer" option which turned out to be the wrong choice (since this is a network printer, it seems the natural choice to me). What you need to select is the "Add Local Printer" option since the installation creates a local port to the print server. Besides that confusing part of how to connect the printer I had no problems with the installation.Printing from both Vista and Ubuntu works fine so far. I previously had problems printing from my Linux boxes while the printer was connected to a Windows box. I am very happy with the new set-up.

I received this unit and could not get it to work with a Canon Multipass F60. Customer service at Linksys tried for about an hour to talk me through setting it up before admitting that it probably wouldn't work because the printer was a multifunction or "all-in-one" model. I was referred to one service rep after another and finally got someone to tell me that this unit WILL DEFINITELY NOT WORK with my particular printer. I appreciated their coming clean about it but I wish they had mentioned that in the production description posted on Amazon.com. I got my money back from TigerDirect.com but I had to pay for shipping which I thought was unfair. You may want to do what Linksys advised me to do after-the-fact, call your printer manufacturer and ask which USB printservers will work with your particular model.

I might be doing something wrong but I've given up on this as a print server. I read a lot of the reviews before I bought it but I guess that I should have read closer and paid more attention to them. I consider myself reasonably tech savy but this just wasn't very easy to install. I'm running MS Vista and I did get it to work, finally. I started out pretty much following the instructions (such as they are) and everythng seemed to work okay. But when I went to print the system just acted as if the printer wasn't there. I eventually did get it to work correctly and happily printed away from a couple of different computers on my home network. Then, at the end of the day, I shut the computers and the printers off, as I do every night. I did leave the print server, the router, and the modem powered on. Got up the next morning, powered up the computers and the printer, and tried to print. The system acted again as if there was no printer attached to the print server. Reinstalled the printer and everything worked fine until the next time that I shut down the printer. Had to reinstall it again the next day. Figured if I was going to have to reinstall the printer every day it wasn't worth the hassle. Took the printer and installed it on the main computer as a shared printer and took the print server and threw it in a drawer. It'll probably go in to the recycle bin the next time I head that way. Very disappointed in this product. Expected more from Cisco/Linksys!