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Speed - Network Vs Parallel
Hi All:
I have stumbled into a situation that has left me somewhat confused. I have been using two Lexmark Optra S lasers and a Tektronix Phaser color laser on my 10/100 ethernet network. It's a small home network. I set this up for several convenience reasons. But one of my objectives in setting it all up was to gain a little speed in throughput of jobs compared to parallel connections. Recently I migrated to WinXP. Then my Phaser started to give me mysterious network problems. So as a temporary band-aid, I connected one Lexmark and the Phaser to my main PC with parallel cables using separate LPT ports in the machine. I figured I could at least use the printers till I could get all the software / hardware issues resolved. What I stumbled onto is that there is a very definite speed difference in the parallel setup compared to the ethernet. The printers respond MUCH faster with the parallel. Now I'm second guessing whether I should reassemble the machines as network printers. I'm thinking that sharing them might be better. Was I wrong to expect my printers to run faster on the ethernet? I realize that the Phaser was slowed due to its 10mps card. But I am quite suprised that the Lexmark with its 100mps speed is nowhere near as fast as the parallel. Is this the way ethernet network printing is? Or do I have a network problem that I need to sort out? Any advice appreciated. |
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"Wayne Ware" wrote in message I have setup numerous networks with Lexmark printers and by far they are faster across the network than using the parallel port. I would have to say you have something setup incorrectly in the network. What protocol are you using for the Lexmark printer ? Do you have DCHP enabled? What kind of router do you have? Give me as much information as you can about your network setup and I will do my best to help. Hi: Thanks for your reply. I originally had all of the printers running under Win98 on a 3 computer Peer - To - Peer network (Netbeui) attached to a 3Com 8 port 10/100 hub. The Lexmarks were setup using Markvision. I don't think DCHP was installed or utilized. If I'm not mistaken, it used 'LexIPX' or something similarly named to actually communicate with the printers. It worked out of the box so I didn't mess with it. The Phaser was set up as a TCP/IP connection. Again, it worked once I learned a little bit about TCP/IP so i didn't try to tweak it much. I migrated to Windows XP and tried for a while to get the Lexmarks running on a new network. I was not successful as I had been with the Win 98. It is going to take me some time to figure out how to set the Lexmarks up in WinXP. I don't know what the best approach will be. So i let that go and concentrated on the Phaser. It was very random in whether it would connect to the WinXP TCP/IP port. I couldn't successfully print to it, but I could occasionally use its built in web server to modify settings, etc. I finally concluded that there is a hardware problem with the Phaser and that I needed to verify that it is operational with a Parallel cable. That's when i discovered how much faster the Parallel setup is compared to what I had been using. That's where I'm at now. Learning XP networking is going to be my first hurdle. I'm accustomed to the simplicity of Netbeui in Win98. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. |
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