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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, smartpho...
Thanks for the reply. As you have indicated they were not on the same network. After modifying the setup, everthing works fine.
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.