Good, affordable wireless printer server

The unit was purchased by me for Windows 7 / Windows XP-mixed environment with appropriately "mixed" feelings. Especially with regard printer, but 7 and XP quite agree when it comes to ease of maintenance. Even when a HP device comes into play. HP tends namely my experience as IT-ler according to complicate things by their supplied software sometimes, instead of simplifying it.
When installing the print server that was now not the problem; we went with and without "pack software" easily and quickly. The connected HP printer was immediately recognized and in accordance with looped - even without major intervention on my part. Tests using a non-HP printers have then shown that here also we can certainly hope that print jobs at least its way to the printer, see - but if non-HP printers and newer HP devices are compatible with the printer server, which one finds unfortunately out only when you test it.
Compliant is mainly the price and the resulting value. The printer server is now though sometimes hard to come by (if necessary for successors look out), but for the 30 that I paid for, for example, the built-up unit, you get technology that well sometimes the three or four times of competing manufacturers can cost.
However, one should not expect miracles from the device even - neither of the transmission power, nor of the installed features ago, but it provides the rock-solid on what you want to have as the end user: Yes, you can print! About WLAN - even with printers that have only one hutzeligen USB port. Exactly one gets. ;-)
The 100m from the product description may be a little .... ahem ... enthusiastic, because in buildings and walls or ceilings has now and then, the act signal reducing, but what the heck? For private use, the well 20 meters, to which I would appreciate ultimately the effective transmission radius in the built-up of my unit, fully adequate. All bene anyway.
You do not have to despair by the way, if the printer server can not be configured with the HP software. Is my Windows 7 also only succeeded at the second attempt, because ... well, because "no idea". It was then stop. Effective is, of course, just "short" call my pre-configured factory wireless device and make the few adjustments for integration into your home network "by hand" and without the HP software. Does.
The link mentioned by another reviewer [...] deserves repetition. Here you can roughly estimate if your printer is compatible - but let it be said that such lists are smoke and mirrors when it comes to devices that come from third parties. HP can not assess whether these devices are compatible, because sometimes performance parameters are changed in the middle of the production lines and enable or disable features such as firmware updates. Ergo testing is called for, but at the relatively low price and the almost certain resale (see Ebay) is to get over quite.
Visually, the device is actually stylish "gloss white", I just want to make time in the room - for the evaluation makes no difference to me.

Conclusion:
Kaufbar. 4 star, possibly 4 1/2 of the final mark. 1/2 to 1 star deduction that it occasionally is minor niggles during installation if HP meets Windows and vise versa. If it comes to mistakes, then you're usually in a fix due to bad "unidirectional" software from HP and sets a one Uninstall-Reinstall-cycle, one would not need when the software would be error-resistant programmed. But that's more of a general problem and gives me every now and then broken the fun of HP devices. The print server itself can be described at least as "good".