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Need a wifi to usb product recomendation
I have an Xfinity gateway router along with a Netgear AC1750 Dual Band Mesh Extender. Prior to this ne setup, I was using an Apple Airport network that was physically plugged into my Xfinity router,...
Let me rephrase the question. I have a legacy HP LaserJet 3390 printer with both a USB and LAN interface. It’s a good work horse with plenty of mileage left in it, but I need to connect it wirelessly to my WiFi network. Will any WiFi to USB or WiFi to ethernet adapter work just fine? What my best choice?
caspersgrin wrote:
Will any WiFi to USB or WiFi to ethernet adapter work just fine? What my best choice?
I still don't know what a "USB or WiFi to Ethernet adapter" might be. You may have just invented a useful device.
To recap what I said before, most people with Netgear stuff use ReadySHARE to share a printer in the network.
You plug the printer into a USB port on the router or wifi extender. You can then access the printer with anything that uses the router/extender for wifi.
Then again, if this is an Ethernet printer, can't you just connect it to the network and access it from there?
Why not read the manual and/or data sheet for something like the EX6200V2 WiFi Range Extender?
As the data sheet says:
"Print documents & photos to any USB printer
connected to the WiFi Range Extender."
I didn't pick that one for any particular reason – I don't own one – but to show you what you can get hold of in the way of Netgear devices. I do use an R7800 router to share a USB printer.
A lot may depend on your "Xfinity gateway router", which sadly is an unknown box to anyone reading these messages. So who know what will work with it?
> [...] I have a legacy HP LaserJet 3390 printer with both a USB and LAN
> interface. [...]Where "LAN" means (to you) "Ethernet"? (Your wireless stuff is also
part of your Local-Area Network.)> [...] I need to connect it wirelessly to my WiFi network. [...]
An Ethernet cable would be simpler, of course. Which interface on
the printer were you using before, Ethernet or USB?> [...] Will any WiFi to USB or WiFi to ethernet adapter work just fine?
> [...]Dreamer. To use the USB interface, what you'd want is called a
"print server". (A "wireless print server", if you want a wireless
network connection.) Whether that would support the scanner features is
not immediately obvious.
Most USB-wireless gizmos out there are intended for use with a
computer, not a printer. Very different software environments. Your
printer won't know how to deal with one.More likely to be suitable would be a wireless bridge, which would
provide a wireless-to-Ethernet connection. Some Netgear routers offer a
wireless-bridge-mode option, but I'd guess that a purpose-built wireless
bridge would be cheaper.
> I still don't know what a "USB or WiFi to Ethernet adapter" might be.Read it again.
> [...] You may have just invented a useful device.
Someone might have.
> A lot may depend on your "Xfinity gateway router", [...]
Not really. It's a printer-to-network question; the details of the
network are generally inconsequential (other than wired v. wireless).