Blackbird Rush
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| posted on 12/6/12 at 08:56 PM |
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USB over Cat 5
Hoping for the tech gifted among us can help out.....
I have a network ready (wired) printer that for the life of me wont talk to my wireless router (wired via cat 5 into the rear of the router) hence i
cant wirelessly access the printer from different laptops about the house. (it worked OK with my old router).
However if i plug the printer into the USB port on the router i can access it wirelessly, only problem now is the router is downstairs and the printer
is upstairs.
I do have 2 cat 5 cables running from downstairs to upstairs and could use one of the USB to cat5 converters that you can pick up cheaply, question is
are they Sh*t? and do they need a dedicated cat 5 cable just for them (i.e. not pluged into a network hub with other networking stuff).
I could just move the router back upstairs at the other end of the cat 5 and plug the printer directly into the USB as the BT openreach box plugs into
the phoneline then has a cat 5 cable to the router, however its fixed to the wall and i dont really want to mess about with it now.....
Failing this i'll upgrade the printer to a fully wifi one in the future........
Current set up is:
BT Openreach modem (FTTC connection) linked to Fritzbox wireless router via cat5, then PC's etc either cat5 wired or connected via wifi to the
fritzbox.
The fritzbox is a great router (much more reliable then the previous one) but most of the support is in German.
Cheers for any help / pointers
Ash
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mookaloid
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| posted on 12/6/12 at 09:13 PM |
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you haven't plugged the printer into a WAN port by any chance have you?
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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Blackbird Rush
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| posted on 12/6/12 at 09:28 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by mookaloid
you haven't plugged the printer into a WAN port by any chance have you?
No it was a LAN, the router has 4 lan ports and my VOIP phone, NAS all appeared in the devices list on the router browser page. the WAN port on the
router (LAN Port 1) is plugged into the BT Modem
It seams like the printer wont accept an IP address from the router , either if its set to automatic or i give it a fixed address and input this into
the printer settings, maybe the printer has a faulty CAT5 socket?
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britishtrident
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| posted on 13/6/12 at 05:31 AM |
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Most NAS boxes and Network printers a built in very basic DCHP service I always make sure it is turned off.
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Davey D
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| posted on 13/6/12 at 06:33 AM |
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Are you definately sure you are setting the printer to an address in the correct IP range that your network is using?
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mad4x4
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| posted on 13/6/12 at 08:52 AM |
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Connect using CAT5
Look on the Display on the printer and find out what IP it is getting assigned.
This should be in the same range as the PC on the network
Typically 192.168.yyy.xxx where xxx is 1 to 255 yyy will usually be - or 1 for a home network
Then in windows goto command prompt
CMD <enter>
C:>Ping 192.168.yyy.xxx #Where yyy.xxx is from the front of printer
You should see a repsone time in Milliseconds.
If not then the PC & the Printer are not on the same network.
At prompt type
c:\>IPCONFIG # this will list the PC interfaces.
this should be 192.168.yyy.zzz where zzz is different from the printer at xxx
if the printer is on 192.168.yyy.xxx and PC is on 192.168.www.zzz then they are not on the same network, check printer is not set up as
"automatic" rather set it to DHPT. also ensure that the Router has a DHPT server running to issue IP addresses
Scot's do it better in Kilts.
MK INDY's Don't Self Centre Regardless of MK Setting !
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mookaloid
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| posted on 14/6/12 at 01:00 PM |
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if the printer has a new IP address it might just be as easy to reinstall the printer using the install disc which should then go out and find the
printer and its new IP address.
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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