WIFI on Printer
We bought a WIFI equipped printer - works fine most of the time,once in a while -- not -- Do printers use our hotspot WIFI to communicate, or is this technology embedded in the printer itself, and ...
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monkey44 wrote:
Do printers use our hotspot WIFI to communicate, or is this technology embedded in the printer itself, and then linked to the PC?
YES. (I know that is not the kind of answer you want)
The printer can generally be set up as an "Ad-Hock" device, this means your laptop connects to it as it would a hot spot or Wi-Fi Router.
Or it can be set up as a Client device,, (Connects to a Hot Spot or Router)
The computer can also be set up as an Ad-Hock device but please do not ask me how on modern machines (Done it on older boxes) .
What the printer generally can not do is Dynamic IP.. It must be set with Static IP. and if for some reason you are hooked to a different router with a different IP mask, then it will not work.
NOTE Hot-Spot and Router are interchangable in this post for a Hot-Spot IS a router.. (though the reverse is not always true).
