Saturday, January 05, 2008

I just got a Netgear WGPS606 wireless print server / 4-port switch. Seems nice, but the box was supposed to come with a CD in it. It did not. Unfortunately Netgear expects you to use the wizard on the CD in order to configure the device and doesn't include any documentation on manually connecting to a printer on the device. They also don't provide a download for the missing wizard application in case you lose the disk, get a defective package like I did, or want to print from a Mac, Linux or other OS.

A lot of Googling led me to this fine resource ...

http://www.sapphyre.org/documents/netgear-wgps606.html

He does a great job explaining how to get the item up and running without the stupid wizard CD. Shame on you Netgear. Your total lack of concern for your users is shameful.

By the way, Greg Nesbitt was kind enough to not restrictively copyright the document, so I made a text file backup here, just in case his page goes away someday.

 

posted on Saturday, January 05, 2008 6:11:45 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]
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