Boomyal
Supreme Mariner
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After days of angst about getting my Wife's new wireless Brother Printer up and operating and after a full Saturday of good help from so many of the iboat members, several glasses of strong, adult beverage finally revealed the solution.
In a conventional wireless sense, I did get the printer to work. But my preference was that the Mrs's laptop remain hard wired to the internet.
Sitting in my Papa Bear Lazyboy recliner tonight, watching an exciting British thriller on PBS it was revealed to me that there was likely no reason, whatsover, that the wireless router had to be hooked up to the internet just to communicate between the Laptop and the Printer.
So I laboriously got down on my hands and knees and disconnected the wireless router from the cat5 cables, then reconnected the cable modem directly to the wired router.
I plugged the Mrs's laptop back into it's internet cable, turned it on, checked for the wireless router signal and printed off a document. Budda Bing!
Now there is no extra device, in the cable loop to diagnose if we lose internet connection. If the Mrs has any print issues, she can check for the wireless connectivity while her internet connection remains intact.
Sometimes I feel like such a dufus with all this computer stuff but tonight I am standing tall.
In a conventional wireless sense, I did get the printer to work. But my preference was that the Mrs's laptop remain hard wired to the internet.
Sitting in my Papa Bear Lazyboy recliner tonight, watching an exciting British thriller on PBS it was revealed to me that there was likely no reason, whatsover, that the wireless router had to be hooked up to the internet just to communicate between the Laptop and the Printer.
So I laboriously got down on my hands and knees and disconnected the wireless router from the cat5 cables, then reconnected the cable modem directly to the wired router.
I plugged the Mrs's laptop back into it's internet cable, turned it on, checked for the wireless router signal and printed off a document. Budda Bing!
Now there is no extra device, in the cable loop to diagnose if we lose internet connection. If the Mrs has any print issues, she can check for the wireless connectivity while her internet connection remains intact.
Sometimes I feel like such a dufus with all this computer stuff but tonight I am standing tall.
