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Feature Request: USB Printers
Please concider adding the ability to add a USB printer without the use of the ReadyShare software in your next firmware update.
Other brand routers allow you to simply add a printer to a computer by using the Add Printer command in the Control Panel>Devices and Printers and then pointing the utility to the 192.168.1.1 address of the router. In addition, they also offer their custom utility similar to ReadyShare, but in my own personal experience I’ve always had a better experience adding a shared USB printer thru Windows and sometimes even Linux itself. It has always been more stable and reliable versus having to rely on the printer sharing software from the router manufacturer.
I’m not saying to get rid of the printer Ready Share feature entirely, just please consider adding in the ability to allow us to add a printer without having to install ReadyShare on all computers. Please.
Thank you.
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As a suggestion, one can get a print server device and connect up the USB printer to this print server which can be either wireless or ethernet conencted to the network for easy of access to a USB printer.
- Since I'm using all 4 Ethernet ports already that would mean that I'd have to purchase a switch and a print server, even though with a small tweak to the router's software I could use the USB ports on the router as intended.
Hopefully they will. May take longer than expected for that to happen. Suggestions would be much quicker...
Good Luck.
