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Install printer to use it thru RBR50 USB port
I follow Netgear Orbilogin.com guidelines but it did not work. Someone can help? I have an RBR50, 2 sattelites and and outdoor sattellite. I cannot find any support about this in the community or any document from netgear.
Guidelines:
ReadySHARE Printer lets you share a USB printer that is connected to a USB port on your Orbi Router or Orbi Satellite. You can share this USB printer among the Windows and MAC computers on your network.
1. Using a USB cable, connect one end to the Orbi Router's or Orbi Satellite's USB port and the other end to the printer's USB port.
2. Install the USB printer driver on each computer that will use the printer.
If you don’t have the driver installed, it’s usually available through the printer manufacturer.
3. On each computer that will use the printer, download the NETGEAR USB Control Center utility from http://www.netgear.com/readyshare
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Others with more expertise than I have will surely weigh in soon. My impression is "Not going to happen."
- When I read through the Orbi User Manual, there is NO reference to Readyshare in it. None.
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RBK50/Orbi_UM_EN.pdf
I take this as a clue. - When I "search" (in the upper left part of the forum web page) for "readyshare printer", I get a bunch of hits from people asking things like "why doesn't it work?" or "It was no problem on my Nighthawk router, why won't it work on the Orbi?"
When Orbi was announced back in 2016, my guess is the engineering team had grand ambitions of making their new Orbi equivalent to the existing Nighthawk line, including being able to connect USB hard drives and printers to the USB port. Somewhere along the way, whatever effort was going on fizzled out and is now a dim memory. So much so that the currently shipping Orbi RBR50 doesn't even have a USB port on it. And, the new WiFi6 Orbi RBR850 also has no USB port. The choices are ethernet or WiFi. Not USB.
- When I read through the Orbi User Manual, there is NO reference to Readyshare in it. None.
You would be best served by finding you a USB to LAN print server device to connect the printer too. Then anyone can print to the print server device for there printing needs. HP has a couple I believe.
Miklosman wrote:I follow Netgear Orbilogin.com guidelines but it did not work. Someone can help? I have an RBR50, 2 sattelites and and outdoor sattellite. I cannot find any support about this in the community or any document from netgear.
Guidelines:
ReadySHARE Printer lets you share a USB printer that is connected to a USB port on your Orbi Router or Orbi Satellite. You can share this USB printer among the Windows and MAC computers on your network.
1. Using a USB cable, connect one end to the Orbi Router's or Orbi Satellite's USB port and the other end to the printer's USB port.
2. Install the USB printer driver on each computer that will use the printer.
If you don’t have the driver installed, it’s usually available through the printer manufacturer.3. On each computer that will use the printer, download the NETGEAR USB Control Center utility from http://www.netgear.com/readyshare
FURRYe38 wrote:You would be best served by finding you a USB to LAN print server device to connect the printer too. Then anyone can print to the print server device for there printing needs. HP has a couple I believe.
Note that these devices have an ethernet port to connect to the network and one or more USB ports for devices like printers. The USB port on the Orbi is not involved in this solution. I guess I am fortunate that my old HP printer has USB, ethernet, and WiFi capability. Right now, I have it connected to a cheap 8-port gigabit switch that is wired to one of the Orbi LAN ports. I assigned an IP address to the printer so that everything in the house can print to it (iPhone, iPad, Android tablet, desktop PC's, laptops, etc.)
Ya I know. I have setup many printer server devices. This would be a solution for them to use there USB printer and get it connecte to PCs or devices that need to print. The print servers are more flexible. Sometimes you can add more then just one printer as well. :smileywink:
