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Nighthawk R7000 not showing/connecting Brother printer
We are trying to connect our wireless Brother printer to our network using our Nighthawk R7000 router. We have the printer plugged into the router via USB cable and USB port on the back of the route...
Thanks, everyone!! I connected the printer via Ethernet instead of USB, rebooted the router and voila! Wired device via Netgear Genie! And don't have to use the silly Netger USB Control Panel to print! And the Brother app worked on our Android devices! What an easy fix! We are getting a few hiccups when printing from our phones/tablet, but it works, and that's what matters!
What model of brother printer is it? I admit I'm not familiar with USB printing on the router. You could try a shorter USB cable although thats probably unlikely.
I use a wireless all in brother printer MFC-JDW43? (older ..cheap refills) and cannot recommend it enough. I simply
reserved its static IP in the Nighthawks dhcp table. For the android devices there is a brother app for printing and scanning.
Why bother with wired connection? Configure the printer to run as wireless network printer. Configuration is to be done at the printer.
Then all the users device need to have printer driver at their end then every one can see the printer and print. If printer can do NFC, or
Airprint, that works as well too. I am not a fan of connecting anything to USB port of the router. My Brother MFC-9130CW works great
set up as wireless network printer as well as Cannon Photo printer. Never have any issues. If anyone wants to print, select which printer (s)he wants to use. Then printer wakes up from sleep mode, goes to print right away. Always work like it is connected via cable. If the
printer has fixed ip address, it is even better.
