Originally posted by: tontod
Maybe something like a print server device would
work?
Will this work?
Originally posted by: tontod
Originally posted by: AnnihilatorX
erm the router won't hook up your DVD burner. You can have another PC connected to the router. However I still don't think you can burn remotely. Reading data however is possible
Couldnt he use a
USB to Ethernet adapter to hook up his external DVD burner to the router?
What are you even talking about? Is there really such thing as a "USB to Ethernet adapter"?
You want to hook an external USB burner up to a USB print server? You think you'll be able to burn over a network just because you can get the plugs to all fit together?
It's just not going to work. Some external hard drives work as network attached storage, but those have internal hardware to work as network file sharing servers. Print servers are just print servers. They're not file servers.
As was already brought up, you may or may not be able to get a burner shared on another PC working across the network. Some software might let you burn with it if you actually map the network drive to a local drive letter.
Even if you did get it working, Wf-Fi just doesn't have the bandwidth for burning DVDs. Under ideal conditions, 802.11g can get up to about 2000 KB/sec. 1X DVD is 1400 KB/sec. Maybe with a miracle you could burn at 2X with a channel-bonded G or pre-N network, but buffer-underrun technology would probably come into play several times during a burn.
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