Wireless Printer in a dorm room question

[onthedownlow]

wolfcry911 wrote:
I was wondering if one could use an Apple Airport Express to set up a mini network to use to print to the printer wirelessly (for use by multiple people in the vicinity).

I suppose how the AE is setup (local network, not on the University's), but if just plugged in to the data jack, similar to a router, doubt they would allow that, as well. Some schools only activate the data jacks in the rooms after you submit your computer(s) MAC addresses for access.

If they still allow access traditionally (just simple DHCP and anything you plug into a data jack gets network access), then they still likely scan for rogue routers and switches on its network, and if found will likely disable them until they can check out the situation on that data jack.

[rgG]

graylocks wrote:
[quote=testcase]
I have inadvertently printed wirelessly to someone else's printer. I can only imagine the possibility for abuse in a dorm setting. Can the model you're considering be locked down by printing to only approved MAC addresses?

on advice of the forumistas, i'm pulling the trigger on the Brother Wireless model.
Good deal for that unit. My daughter had trouble with people accidentally printing to her wireless printer at school and switched to USB only.

[Carm]

What PeterB said.

When I was in college, laser printers were crazy expensive and printing from the computer lab my first year involved a dot matrix printer.

Make it convinient for him/her to not have to go out of their way to print. $60 for a printer that takes $15 - $20 generics is great.

[cbelt3]

Good job, graylocks!!!
My daughter loved the Brother I got her after her Canon inkjet died. And yes, that 4AM Paper can't be printed in the lab because its closed...

[Speedy]

As far as wireless printing, turn the printer on to print and off when you are done.

My son's college (U of Minnesota) wouldn't allow routers, switches or hubs. I tried a router and it was blocked but the switch worked all year. At my wife's university: she has a wired connection and her IT services gave her a switch to interface with their network, thus she also has to turn her printer on to print.

When we first got cable in our home some 15 years ago someone 10 houses away printed to our LaserWriter 16/600. And someone almost two miles away had their Mac show up in the Chooser and I was able to place a file on his desktop. Those were the days.