Is wireless printing slower?

[angler2229]

I am thinking of going wireless between my Toshiba Satellite A25-S207 and my older HP 6MP. I found a wireless parallel router from Dell that will make the connection. I print mostly from Pagemaker and Office apps. The PageMaker files are digital yearbooks and are heavy into graphics.

Right now the printer is stored in a cabinet out of sight. Would the wireless router need to sit out in the open? I work in the family room and the printer is in the rec room about forty feet away. There are two walls separating the two rooms and all the copper water pipes in the house run through one of them.

Is this too optimistic an endeavor? Will the speed of printing be way slower than a direct connection via my current parallel port?

The sticker that came on my computer shows it has Integrated Wi-Fi (802.11b) wireless LAN. The features and specification manual says that my Toshiba has optional Wi-Fi that may have been installed at the factory. How can I tell if it really has Wi-Fi? One reason that I think it may have it is an occasional message that pops up from the tray saying that "A wireless connection is unavailable." I do suppose that I will have to buy a Toshiba Wireless LAN Mini PCI card. It also shows up in the tray under ConfigFree devices.

I don't want to rush out and buy peripherals that I don't really need. But I also don't want to make three or four trips to the computer store either.

Thanks for your advice.

Daniel

 

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Yes the Toshiba Satellite A25-S207 has a built in wireless lan card built in when you buy it. So you can connect to a wireless connectin. Also your wireless router should go through the walls, just like your radio and tv signal do. The thing you'll want to worry about it security if you dont configure it right your network will be wide open, broadcasting to anyone around. I do not know if the printing will be slower. I assume not since you will be connected at 100Mbs, but I have never used a wireless printer.