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Old 08-20-2009, 02:24 PM   #1
Lola Kews
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Wireless/Wired network hardware recommendation.


Running SUSE 11.1., Verizon high speed DSL. Would like to put a printer on the network and my new Samsung TV.


I would like to set up a network for my computer but have no experience in this area.
Need recommendation on equipment/brand to get that is compatible with Linux. All help would be appreciated very much.

I would like to use the "N" protocol since I hear it is the latest and fastest.

Lola
 
Old 08-21-2009, 07:52 AM   #2
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A few thought...

Hi Lola Kews,

Here are some thoughts...

Linux supports a wide variety of printers. Look at this website for a complete overview: http://www.openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi

There are printers with their own (wireless) network interface and there are those with a USB printer which can be attached to a seperate (wireless) print server. Check the popular brands and compare prices.

Some brand suggestions for network printers: HP, Espon, Canon
Some brand suggestions for separate print servers: Linsys, Netgear or Dlink.

Don't forget to check their compatibility with linux.

A final thought on the printers: You could consider a wired networked printer. Printers usually don't get carried around. A wired solution could save some costs, are more reliable and could save configuration issues.


With regards to your new Samsung TV (not linux related ;-)).
The question would be how much bandwidth is needed for the tasks it has to perform. For media streaming I wouldn't suggest a wireless connection, especially not for HD streaming. The 802.11n-draft standard supports a higher bandwidth than the older 802.11a, b and g. But it's my experience that streaming large mkv files over 802.11n-draft still isn't fast enough. Use a wired gigabit network instead.

I'm not sure however if your TV is capable of directly streaming/decoding media. Usually tv's have some form of on board browsing mechanism that doesn't require a high performance network connection.
 
Old 08-21-2009, 08:24 AM   #3
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Hi Lola,

Just a note on networking, My Netgear N access points were not good enough to reliably travel 50m since I moved, so I bought some Netcomm Ethernet over Power adapters and they work great - 85Mb. May be worth considering...

cheers,

kbp

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