Linksys focuses on providing practical products for the SOHO and small-business market. It comes with minimal documentation and lacks Web-based management software. The EtherFast performed well on our tests, however, and was easy to install. In sum, if your needs are fairly basic, the EtherFast should serve you well. But with only two LEDs, one for link and the other for errors, the unit doesn't provide much status information.
Installation is easy.
Before you begin, you must decide what type of print server you want the EtherFast to emulate. This redirector lets you print directly to the print server without going through a server's queue. If installing client software seems like a lot of work, you can install the software on a Windows 95 or Windows NT server and share the printer across the network. For NetWare printing, you can use the NetWare utilities NWAdmin and Pconsole to setup the print server. We used the software to send test pages to all of our printers to make sure that they were working properly.