Mark Schneider,

Well stated!

For a few years I was using a Caon S200x plugged into an Airport Express and shared to my Mac and various Pcs using Bonjour. It worked a treat and was very reliable.

I recently replaced the printer with a HP and couldn’t for love or money get it working with the Airport so it ended up being plugged into the mac and then shared using Bonjour. The Bonjour part worked fine but it means that the Machas to stayed powered up..

You guys sure have lots of issues with your Macs. Or so it seems from the podcasts and your posts. I dumped Mac laptops because of quality issues. I also hated how hard it was for a end user to upgrade them. I think the regular MacBook is better but the Pro is absurd. It takes me less than 5 minutes to install a hard drive in my Thinkpad.
As for Bonjour I never used it I assumed it was designed for a Mac and part of their Adware suite they push on iTunes users.

Actually, I just remembered my prior printer was connected to the AEBS via Ethernet… Maybe it’s the USB connection that’s flakey. Before the last router update, using it as a NAS was unreliable – that’s better now. Honestly, If I had more time I’d ebay this thing and replace it with a $50 N-spec router.

I picked up a new printer last week to hang off my Airport Extreme… My results are mixed (and worse than the printer it replaces). My MacBook Pro sometimes prints wireless, but this morning the device (printer) was busy and only rebooting everything restored it. My deskptop PC (Vista) so far as printed 100% via Bonjour, but Melissa’s laptop (Vista) hasn’t connected and printed even once. I’m having a bad computer week. Maybe I should find a pen and a pad of paper just to be sage.