Wireless Printer Questions

2011-09-22 17:54:17

#1

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6595|Atlanta, Georgia

Okay so I have my computer hooked up to my own router upstairs in the house. Downstairs my parents have their own router where the printer and their computers are hooked into. Now my router is hooked into theirs making mine into a switch basically. How can I get my desktop to recognize the wireless printer on their router while I'm connected to mine? Karma to winnars.

My Router: http://www.amazon.com/Medialink-Wireles … B0044YU60M
Printer: (I think this one) http://www.amazon.com/HP-Deskjet-Printe … amp;sr=1-2

2011-09-22 18:02:32

#2

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6776|...

can you see any machine on their side of the router?

2011-09-22 18:16:21

#3

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6595|Atlanta, Georgia

No, neither of the routers see either of the machines or printers on either of the routers.

2011-09-22 18:28:19

#4

Brasso: member; +1,549|6884

youre using only the LAN ports on your router right?

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2011-09-22 18:45:39

#5

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6595|Atlanta, Georgia

Lan connections as follows Modem > Router 1 > Router 2
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PC My PC

Printer is wireless running off Router 1.

2011-09-22 18:45:55

#6

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6595|Atlanta, Georgia

2011-09-22 19:09:34

#7

Brasso: member; +1,549|6884

there are normally 4 LAN ports on a router and 1 WAN port (usually called "Internet"). normally you connect the modem to the router via the WAN port and connect up to 4 devices via LAN, but if you want to use a router as a switch, you only use the LAN ports. so what i'm saying is, is the Cat5 from your top router connected to a LAN port of the bottom router? (top and bottom referring to your diagram)

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2011-09-22 19:50:32

#8

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6595|Atlanta, Georgia

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Configuri … aming.aspx

I think this guy is explaining what I want. I'm not quite sure. I tried what you said brasso but it didn't work.

2011-09-22 19:56:37

#9

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6595|Atlanta, Georgia

Brasso wrote:
there are normally 4 LAN ports on a router and 1 WAN port (usually called "Internet"). normally you connect the modem to the router via the WAN port and connect up to 4 devices via LAN, but if you want to use a router as a switch, you only use the LAN ports. so what i'm saying is, is the Cat5 from your top router connected to a LAN port of the bottom router? (top and bottom referring to your diagram)

It noticed the PC's Connected through LAN but not the Printer. It also failed to find a DNS to connect through the internet.

2011-09-22 21:04:48

#10

Brasso: member; +1,549|6884

oh yeah, that guy says exactly what i meant for you to do. thing is, i forgot to say that the IP for your top router should be the standard 192.168.1.1 and that the IP for the bottom router should actually be 192.168.1.2.

anyway, you can now see the PCs connected to the main router but not the printer...strange. i've never had a wireless printer so i can't help you there, sorry.

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2011-09-23 08:22:54

#11

Shahter: Zee Ruskie; +295|7029|Moscow, Russia

first:

https://static.bf2s.com/files/user/4275/2d0z6u8.jpg

you don't need it in this configuration at all. just hook your PC up to the first one.

second:

if you still want that router for some reason, make sure you've done what brasso said, which basically means all ports i marked red are LAN ports.

lastly, make sure that all the devices have unique IP addresses - that includes routers. if you have ip addresses issued by the router, make sure that only one router - the first one - have DHCP server functionality turned on. the second one is only there to act as a switch.

Last edited by Shahter (2011-09-23 08:23:52)

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