Wireless Printers

[scopestech]

I am running our house internet through a complex set of connections. Phoneline to wireless router, splits off to one computer and to a netgear ethernet switch that connects to two more computers and 2 wireless laptops via the router. How easy would it be to run a wireless printer on the network? I have read all about ip adresses that keep having to be changed and i do not know how easy it would be or whether its easier just to network a usb printer or how cheap an ethernet printer is?

 

[strollin]

Setting up either a USB or wireless printer on your network is easy. With a USB printer you plug it in to one of the computers then share it. That computer must always be up and running for the other computers on the network to print. With a wireless printer, you set it up via wifi to the router then install the software on the various computers you want to print from. In this case, as long as the router and printer are powered up, any computer on the network can use the printer.

I don't know what you read about IP addresses that keep having to be changed. I don't change IP addresses on my network which has a router, 2 switches, multiple wired computers, multiple computers and other devices that connect via wifi along with wireless and USB attach printers.

 

[novicegeek]

I haven't had to keep changing the IP address on my printer (hooked up through a router) - it would change itself. That's why I changed the IP address on the printer from a dynamic IP to a static IP. Then the printer doesn't keep changing IP addresses. But once I did that, which was fairly simple to do through the printer control panel. The whole process was fairly simple.