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StarTech PM1115U2, one-port USB 2.0 print server with auto-sensing Ethernet review
A one-printer server that names the two Ethernet designations behind its 10/100 and the two printing protocols it speaks, and publishes no list of printers.
The bottom line The most precisely written of the four on the network side, and the vaguest on the software side. One printer, two protocols, two designations, and no list of the machines it will actually drive.
On the listing
A one-port USB 2.0 print server with 10/100 Mbit/s auto-sensing; sharing a USB printer with other users across a network, with the server given 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX auto-sensing for a reliable connection so that printing works from any networked computer; installation described through step-by-step videos or the manual, with online questions and a community of technical users; a unit named for home and small offices as well as public bodies and schools needing shared printing; USB 2.0 compliance with Mac and Windows, and support for LPR network printing and Bonjour Print Services; and printing from any computer joined to the network, with the server needing no direct connection to a computer but requiring the supplied network lead to a network device such as a router.
The designation behind the 10/100
10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX, auto-sensing. No other page in this group names either. The difference is not pedantry: a designation can be matched against the port at the other end of the run, and a figure cannot. Auto-sensing then means the unit picks whichever of the two the switch offers, without a jumper or a setting.
Two protocols, both named
LPR and Bonjour. One is how a job is sent, the other is how the printer is found. Between them they cover the two ways a Mac and a Windows machine each expect to reach a printer they do not own, which matters more on this family than raw speed ever will.
One printer, counted
A single USB port, stated in the title and confirmed in the first bullet. There is no ambiguity to resolve and nothing to interpret. Whether that printer is one this unit can actually drive is the question this page never approaches.
Before ordering
Ask for the supported printer list by name. The page offers videos, a manual and a community, and none of the three is the list.
Availability
Priced from 55 € to 70 € across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores the day this page was checked.
It is stocked on the American and British Amazon stores as well, in that country’s own currency. The range above leaves those out: it counts euro stores and no others.
Every figure in this section is what Keepa held on the day this page was last updated. Stock and prices move without warning.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 10 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
Where it holds up, and where it stops
Strengths
Names 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX rather than printing 10/100 alone, which is the form that matches a switch port
Names both protocols it speaks, LPR and Bonjour, which is how machines on the network will find it at all
The network lead is in the box, and the fifth bullet says exactly what it is for and where it goes
Compromises
No compatibility list, on the family where the list is the specification
Mac and Windows are named without versions, which on a device that lives for a decade is the part that ages first
Scanning is not mentioned in either direction, so a buyer with a multifunction machine gets no answer at all
Specifications
Printer connection type
USB 2.0 — stated in the title as a one-port USB 2.0 print server and in the fourth bullet as USB 2.0 compliant
Network port type
Copper Ethernet — stated in the first bullet as 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX auto-sensing, which is a designation rather than a figure and is the only one in this group
Network port speed
10/100 Mbit/s, sensed automatically — stated in the title and in the first bullet, where the two designations behind the figures are given as 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX
Wireless support
Not published on the listing — no wireless is named anywhere, and the fifth bullet requires the supplied network lead to be run from the unit to a network device such as a router
Protocols published
LPR network printing and Bonjour Print Services — stated in the fourth bullet as what the adapter supports in addition to being USB 2.0 compliant
Number of printers served
One — stated in the title as a one-port print server and in the first bullet as sharing one USB printer across a network
Scanner support
Not published on the listing — scanning is named nowhere in the title or in any of the five bullets, and no multifunction machine is mentioned either way
Stated operating system support
Mac and Windows — stated in the fourth bullet without a single version number for either
Published printer compatibility list
Not published on the listing — no model, no range and no maker is named. What the page offers instead is support material: step-by-step videos, a user manual, online questions and a community of technical users
Amazon reference
B016A4MSA4 (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
0065030855174
The questions that come up before an order
What does Bonjour Print Services add over LPR?
It is how a printer announces itself on a local network so that machines find it without being told an address. LPR is the older way of sending the job once the address is known. A unit that speaks both can be discovered by machines that expect discovery and driven by machines that expect a queue, which is what a mixed household usually contains.
Why single out 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX?
Because they are the standards behind the figures, and this is the only page in this group that prints them. Auto-sensing means the unit works out which of the two the switch is offering and settles there. The designation is what lets that be checked against the switch rather than assumed.
USB 2.0 to the printer · RJ45 to the network · Fast Ethernet, unrated · web management · protocol list printed with HDCP in it · no model list
A wired print server with a web page for setup, whose protocol list includes a video acronym and whose compatibility is described in words rather than published as a list.
Best for: A small office with an ordinary USB printer and Windows machines, where the printer should stand where it is convenient rather than beside one desk.
USB to the printer · Ethernet to the network, unrated · one printer · software in five languages · limited to LabelWriter 450-series machines · no protocols published
A print server sold for one range of label printers, which makes it the only unit here whose compatibility is bounded in writing rather than described.
Best for: An office already running a LabelWriter of the 450 series on one desk, where everyone else needs to print to it without moving the printer.
USB to the printer · a network cable interface, undescribed · wireless named without a standard · 95 per cent of brands claimed · a 256 GB figure with nothing attached · half the bullets empty
A wireless print server whose compatibility is given as a percentage, whose largest figure is measured in gigabytes, and half of whose bullet slots contain nothing at all.
Best for: A buyer who needs a printer somewhere no cable reaches and is prepared to establish everything about compatibility with the seller before ordering.
