jiff1
Full Member
Posts: 157
|
Post by jiff1 on Oct 20, 2010 16:20:59 GMT
I have a desktop PC and a laptop PC linked via a wireless modem. However, I can't print from my laptop unless my desktop PC is also switched on. I have tried putting the printer connection into the modem but without success. Is there a way I can print (via the modem) without the desktop being switched on ?
|
|
|
Post by Roz on Oct 20, 2010 20:02:57 GMT
Yours sounds like mine Jiff, as in it's just an ordinary printer connected to your desktop machine. If that's so the machine it's physically connected to must be on otherwise it can't be seen by the network. This link explains how yours and mine connect, ours is using the first option "Printer connected to computer / server", and the other two ways are listed below it. www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000710.htmHope this helps.
|
|
|
Post by ken on Oct 21, 2010 4:09:02 GMT
You can connect via RJ45 ( Ethernet ) cable, from a router not from the modem. A modem just gives you a connection from computer to internet and a router manages a network. You have to have either an RJ45 connection, or wireless connection on the printer to do that. With a USB connection you need a print or NAS server to manage it. A print server is the cheapest way to do it, if you only have a USB connector on the printer. Print servers have a wireless connection as well.
Heres a link to about as cheap as they come, just to show what I mean:www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=en&q=print+servers+wireless&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=2857443152663864872&ei=3bm_TOTqKM-H4AaRjsWuAQ&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCQQ8wIwAA# There are a lot of others; but they are all more expensive, unless you get a second hand one. You have to be careful, as some of the older ones wont work with 64 bit machines or Vista and Windows 7. I have got a Belkin here, that will only work with 32 bit XP.
|
|