( 2 reviews )
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Posted: Jun 2 2009
Seller delivered the item in a reasonable amount of time and in the exact condition described. Installation was quick and easy for me, but then, I work in the IT field. It's been working great since it arrived. I've got three computers printing through it to my HP OfficeJet 80xi. Color and black & white both work fine. Using both Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems.
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( 2 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: Feb 3 2004
I bought this print server several years ago to use at work with an HP G85 all-in-one. We wanted to be able to print/scan/fax over network from several computers.At first, we were able to print and scan over network, but any attempts at network faxing failed with a device communication error. Test faxes spooled ok, but there seemed to be some kind of communication problem with the fax hardware, and the documents got queued. The HP Director software waited on timeouts when I tried to apply changes to fax settings also.I looked all over the HP tech support forums, Deja-News, and several mailing-lists, and found that other people had the same problems, but nobody had any solutions. HP tech support sent many people on wild goose chases trying to resolve the problem.Finally, I tracked the problem down to an SNMP timeout that took place whenever there was an attempt to fax over network. This was a bug that showed up if you changed the default community string from "Public" to some other value.Since we are on a University network and exposed to hackers, we didn't want to leave this "password" set to the default value. I finally had to change this setting back to the well known default value to make things work.It took several weeks to solve this problem. After I got everything working, I posted the solution to the HP tech support forums so that others wouldn't have to waste their time and money like I did.When I logged back on to the forums to check if the solution worked for other people, I was shocked and disappointed to find that the HP moderators had censored my posts by deleting them. I found out later that HP has a reputation for doing things like this when the situation reflects badly on them.HP hardware may be good, but it's of no use if their software doesn't work. I'll NEVER NEVER NEVER buy HP again unless I have abolutely no other option.Norman.
