Network Printing Slow

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From: David L (David-Lu_at_pobox.com)
Date: 08/21/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:39:34 -0700

I have a Linksys Wireless G router and 2 PCs with XP Home.

I'm trying to print from my wireless laptop to the printer that's connected
to the wired desktop (HP 7150 via USB).

When I print a large picture, I see data transmitting from the laptop (and
received by the desktop) at about 40KB/sec.

So if it's a 6MB image file that needs to print, it takes a pretty long
time.

I get the same results with various image programs.

As a test, I did a file transfer between machines and do get speeds over
300KB/sec.

Is this normal or is there someway to speed up the transfer of the print
file?

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