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Nighthawk R7000: WI-FI Pring sharing
Hi,
On my R7000 I have enabled smart connect to let the system intelligently select the best WiFi band 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz. But my HP WI-FI printer is on 2.4 GHz band. The devices (laptops, smartphones) that are on 5 Gwz band are not able to see the printer. Is there a way to share the printer between the bands?
Thanks,
Melci
Thanks for the reply. As you have indicated they were not on the same network. After modifying the setup, everthing works fine.
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The SSID bands have nothing to do with sharing, that is just how they connect to the network. It sounds like they are NOT on the same network? Do you have GUEST enabled, maybe either the printer or devices are connecting to that, those are isolated (LAN and GUEST network) unless you set the GUEST network to see the LAN.
Thanks for the reply. As you have indicated they were not on the same network. After modifying the setup, everthing works fine.
Give assigned ip address to the printer. All devices to access printer should have printer driver installed. Wireless band has nothing to do with network printer. Another good thing to do is if you are on Windows create home group to share things. Also don't use smart connect. Just selecet a channel.
- An assigned address is not really required for a printer. Most devices can find the printer just fine by other means (e.g. Windows name).
TheEther wrote:
An assigned address is not really required for a printer. Most devices can find the printer just fine by other means (e.g. Windows name).'not really required' is the operative word. Under Windows 7 my HP 310A although found would not stay connected. Contacted HP and they said make it 192.168.1.10 *specifically*. Did that and had no problems after that. Funny part is under W8 and W10 it can use any DHCP IP Address it gets.
I'll assume some printers could use fixed IP Addresses then?
Your situation could be unique to your HP310A. I doubt HP would be so dumb as to require all of their network-enabled printers to use a static IP address, especially 192.168.1.10. My Brother printer has no problems working with a DHCP address.
