Wireless laser printer setup question.

[NYBo]

Re: Wireless laser printer setup question.

You have one modem/router combo with 4 ports + a belkin wireless router? is the belkin a long distance away? and does the wifes laptop have a wireless adapter?

You could set up the routers where instead of two 4 port routers you put a cable between them and they essentially become one 7 port router and you can use one to broadcast your wireless signal and you will have both routers on one network...This is what I recommended in the other thread...

Precisely. The Belkin is used as a simple ethernet switch, with the DSL modem/router handling DHCP. You will have to go into the Belkin's setup page to turn off DHCP. The ethernet cable from the DSL modem will need to be plugged into one of the LAN ports on the Belkin, not the WAN port. But you end up with 6 available ethernet ports, not 7 (not that it matters in this case).

 

[hrdwrkingacguy]

Re: Wireless laser printer setup question.

. But you end up with 6 available ethernet ports, not 7 (not that it matters in this case).

I forgot about that, your right my wan port is configured to be a 5th port on my router so I have 5 on one router and 4 on the other and they are connected port 1 to port 1 and bridged...

 

[baloo6049]

Re: Wireless laser printer setup question.

Ok I have read this thread.... here is what I understand... your computer, has a wifi connection to the dsl router connected to the internet. The wife's computer has a wired connection to that same dsl router, as well as a second network connection that is wireless connecting to another router / hub that is not connected to the internet. If this is correct, then there is a couple of alternatives here.
1. Get rid of the non internet network that services your wife's wireless connection and the printer. Reconfigure the printer to connect to the wireless network you are on. Then you and your wife can access the printer.
2 If option 1 is not viable for some reason (security concerns etc...), keeping your networks set up as they are today, you can set up your wife's computer to be a printer server for the printer that would allow you to send print "jobs" to it and it would queue them up and send them to the printer. Drawbacks to this is if your wife's computer is offline you are SOL. Also this is not as efficient since you will be creating traffic on her wired network connection and that would create more work for her computer.

I would do option one, cleanest and simplest. There are more advanced ways to handle this but why create more headaches if you don't have to. Hope this helps.

 

[v1_0]

Re: Wireless laser printer setup question.

My setup has two wireless routers in current operation. One, the Belkin, is not connected to the modem. It is simply used by my wife's laptop to communicate with her wireless Brother printer. The other is the combination DSL modem/wireless router and 4 port wired router.

My wife's internet connection is via the wired wall jack that goes back to one of the wired ports on the DSL Modem/router. I would like to keep it like that. In the meantime, my laptop, which does not have access to any wired ports, accesses the internet via the the wireless part of the DSL Modem.

I want to turn off the Belkin wireless router and reconfigure the wireless printer to operate off the DSL modem/wireless router so that both my laptop and my wife's can access the printer. Right now, if I sign my laptop onto the Belkin Wireless to use the printer, I would have to log off the DSL wireless signal and would have no internet access.

My question is if my wife's laptop is logged on to the DSL Wireless signal (for access to the printer) AND connected to the DSL's wired ports, which internet connection will prevail. I am hoping it would be the wired connection.

I suppose I could just try it but I would not want to confuse things and blow a fuse!

In short: yes, so long as you configure everything correctly. Since everything is served by the same router, you have one network - the router 'connects' its WiFi to its hard lines. This is how they are normally setup - you *can* use some of the avanced features in the router to keep the two seperate, but that's not how they ship. It's not a commonly used sort of feature as most households want everything to be able to talk to each other... (Or to a common printer).

-V

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Wireless laser printer setup question.

Ok I have read this thread....
1. Get rid of the non internet network that services your wife's wireless connection and the printer. Reconfigure the printer to connect to the wireless network you are on. Then you and your wife can access the printer.

This is what I would like to do but the question remains. If I leave the wife's computer connected to the ethernet cable, which in turn connects to the wired ports of the DSL modem/wireless router, which pathway to the internet, for her computer, will prevail?

 

[NYBo]

Re: Wireless laser printer setup question.

She wouldn't need to be using wireless at all. Just connect the printer to the same router. KISS

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Wireless laser printer setup question.

She wouldn't need to be using wireless at all. Just connect the printer to the same router. KISS

Ah! Herein lies the rub. We have the wireless printer because there is no other place to put it that it is possible to run a wire to, or connect direct to any computer.

 

[NYBo]

Re: Wireless laser printer setup question.

Ah! Herein lies the rub. We have the wireless printer because there is no other place to put it that it is possible to run a wire to, or connect direct to any computer.

That's why you make it a part of the wireless network through the wireless DSL router used by the rest of the network instead of the Belkin your wife is using. She can then either use a wired or wireless connection to both the Internet AND the printer.

 

[waterinthefuel]

Re: Wireless laser printer setup question.

Umm plz explain why.....Hmm the printer needs the access code to the comp... the comp does not need a access code to the printer ok use goggle pops you gettin that old....

http://www.epinions.com/content_5221228676?sb=1

http://www.ehow.com/how_4828251_use-wireless-printer.html

On that first link, one of the "most popular in printers" is one I have! The HP 1102w I got factory refurbished for 49 free shipping. It works great!