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Which gateway address to use for wireless printer?

Andy911
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Which gateway address to use for wireless printer?

I have a SBG6580 cable modem/router (wifi turned off) connected to a R6700v3 in Access Point mode.

A Canon Airprint printer is connected to the  R6700v3 AP using 2.4GHz band.

 I want to configure a static IP address in the printer's menu, no problem. 

QUESTION: Printer is asking for a gateway IP address? Should I use the R6700v3 IP address or the cable modem IP address for this?

Model: R6700|Nighthawk AC1750 Smart WiFi Router
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antinode
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Re: Which gateway address to use for wireless printer?

> Should I use the R6700v3 IP address or the cable modem IP address for
> this?

 

   Should be the same as the gateway which every other device on your
LAN is using, which, I'd expect, is the LAN address of your router.

 

   About the only obvious use for the LAN address of a wireless access

point is to manage the WAP.

 

> I want to configure a static IP address in the printer's menu, no
> problem.

 

   If you configured the printer to use DHCP, instead, then what would
it get/use as its gateway address?  Probably should be the same as that.

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antinode
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Re: Which gateway address to use for wireless printer?

> Should I use the R6700v3 IP address or the cable modem IP address for
> this?

 

   Should be the same as the gateway which every other device on your
LAN is using, which, I'd expect, is the LAN address of your router.

 

   About the only obvious use for the LAN address of a wireless access

point is to manage the WAP.

 

> I want to configure a static IP address in the printer's menu, no
> problem.

 

   If you configured the printer to use DHCP, instead, then what would
it get/use as its gateway address?  Probably should be the same as that.

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Andy911
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Re: Which gateway address to use for wireless printer?

antinode, thanks. Correct, every device on the LAN is using the router's LAN address as its gateway.  I'm sorry, but what is WAP?

 

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antinode
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Re: Which gateway address to use for wireless printer?

> [...] what is WAP?

 

   Wireless Access Point.

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