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Alan_123
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Aug 19, 2020
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Trying to use a USB scanner by wireless... No USB cable... Win 10 environment...

Hi... Hope I have a very easy question... I have a new Dell i7 Win 10 laptop and I need to connect a USB scanner to it. Normally, the scanner would use a USB 2.0 cable to make the connection, but I d...
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    Alan_123
    Aug 24, 2020

    Respectfully, "impossible" is inaccurate... USB is just a transfer protocol (pretty simple too...) As I mentioned, I do have a wifi network... I just checked, and my first floor machine easily talks with one of my second floor machines, including a scanner. All I need to do is hook up my new scanner into one of my network machines (I think I'll buy a dedicated machine), and wifi and Windows will take care of the rest... Easy breezy...

     

    Alan

    A.S. Microprocessor Technology

    B.S. Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering

     

    P.S. Have you ever written a driver or dll? I have...

     

     

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michaelkenward
Guru - Experienced User
Aug 23, 2020

Are you asking for a router that you can plug the scanmer into?

 

Alan_123 wrote:

 

The scanner is not equipped to handle wireless...

Won't work. Printers yes, but scanners no.

 

Did you post in the powerline section for any reason? Or was it a random choice?

 

If your scanner does Ethernet, powerline might work.