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R7000 Access Questions
I'm new to this and can't find an answer for my question. Can my laptops using wifi access a cabled printer? Or... Can my desktops using cabled access, access a printer setup on the wifi net...
R7000 has wireless isolation, but only for the guest network.
If the printer is a network printer with WiFi / Ethernet support then yes to both your questions. The only router related parameter that I can think of which may cause issues is ‘Wireless Isolation’ (default is disabled), so check it’s disabled (assuming the R7000 has that feature, I can’t check right now).
R7000 has wireless isolation, but only for the guest network.
Thanks for the quick responses.
The printer is a wifi/ethernet network printer but will not allow both at the same time.
Right now all devices/computers are wifi. Desktop performance is compromised by doing this; cable internet is 100Mbps, I get half this with wifi.
Mark
Access between Ethernet and Wi-Fi is one thing. We've established that that is allowed.
Wi-Fi performance is completely unrelated and, unforunately, subject to a lot of variables. The capabilties of Wi-Fi adapters in your computer, the Wi-Fi protocol (like 802.11n or 802.11ac), the Wi-Fi band used (2.4 GHz or 5 GHz), the channel width, the channel congestion, radio noise from non-Wi-Fi devices operating in the same frequency, signal absorption and reflection by walls.
If you are getting 50 Mbps on Wi-Fi, then I'll wager that your computer is joined to the 2.4 GHz network and probably only has a single antenna. If I'm correct, then 50 Mbps is pretty typical. If possible, use the 5 GHz network. It's frequently less congested and fundamentally has higher bandwidth, albeit with less range. But unless you are at the fringes of the 5 GHz network where the connection is intermittent, it will almost always be faster than 2.4 GHz.