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Printer's IP seen, but cannot connect
On a Mac with Tahoe 26.x.x Logging in to the Orbi dashboard, my two printers are clearly seen with valid IP addresses. But when I try to connect and print, they say offline. One is wifi to the RB...
jefferisFURRYe38 for what it’s worth, I have two old HP printers, and I never was able to get them to work reliably on Wi-Fi. From my research at that time, it seemed that this was a common problem across home networks with different routers/manufacturers.
I ended up connecting both of them by ethernet to Orbi device satellites. I’ve had different model Orbis at different times now, but since I connected via ethernet, for several years they have both worked perfectly and they both get heavy use in our house.
You may find good success if you are able to hook them up via ethernet.
Agreed, from my direct testing and knowledge of HP printers, the wifi adapter inside these printers has never been the greatest. Also depending on age, older wifi adapters don't work well with WPA2 and AES. Seem to prefer WPA and TPIK for some older model printers. I would think the newer printers should have WPA2 and WPA3 support and should work better than older generation wifi adapters. Also there maybe the issue of older generation wifi adapters that won't work if WPA3 is seen on the signal. Been a long standing issue for some of these older generation devices. I have a HP laptop that is moderately old now, fails to connect to my 970 series main WLAN with WPA3 on the signal even though it's mixed in with WPA2. Only way it would connect was to enable IoT network and set WPA2 only.