Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/03

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Subject: [Leica] Epson 3800
From: mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope)
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:35:34 +0100
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Frank,

it should be a straight cable.

Cheers


Mark

Frank Filippone wrote:
> OK and easy question.....
> 
> If I am using a router ( Linksys WRT150N) .....
> 
> What type of cable goes between the router and the Printer?  The
> instructions are even bad wrt this simple issue.......)
> 
> Straight through or crossover?
> 
> And if I try to connect something I already have, and have used between the
> router and other computers in the house, and I am wrong, is any damage 
> going
> to happen?
> 
> (OTOH, I will probably take your answer and go to Frys to get the right
> one.....)
> 
> 
> Frank Filippone
> red735i at earthlink.net
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net at leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Brian Reid
> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 1:53 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Epson 3800
> 
> The problem is that the Epson 3800 onboard firmware occasionally flakes 
> out.
> The symptoms of it flaking out for me were that it suddenly lost its IP
> address. When this happens you have to reset things so that it will ask for
> an IP address again (or you can give it a static address). Sometimes it
> forgets its static address.
> 
> If the hardware is working properly, it works beautifully out of the box. 
> If
> the hardware is not working properly, you're pretty much lost, because 
> Epson
> tech support doesn't know how to help you with this and in general they
> don't understand what it means to have a network connection. One of the
> first things they will ask you is to unplug the printer from your router 
> and
> connect it directly to your computer with a crossover cable. They get
> belligerent when you tell them that is a bad idea or 
> that you can't.
> 
> 
> 
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