I'm setting up a home office network for my brother-in-law's boss, and he has a large HP office printer that he wants to connect to the network... The ideal solution (in terms of not purchasing more ...

Most (all?) current Macs, desktops included, have auto-uplink, which is a hardware autodetect. AFAIK, it makes no difference in speed, since it just uses the correct pins in the socket for the type of ...