Originally Posted by
SJUAMMF
Many printers today has built-in ethernet ports. They can be connected to the router/switch directly. I only use ethernet printers at home, no more USB printers and no need for print servers. Setup is straight forward also, everything done in Windows.
And more than a few also have wireless built-in. I'd go for either of those over the access point as a print server if at all possible.
Unless the b router is dead, no need to replace it unless you're trying to stream media around the house or you have FiOS or something like that. Otherwise the upstream connection is still the slow point in the network.