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Printing Over WiFi - Issues After Eir Modem Change

  • 18-09-2017 06:03PM
    #1
    Sean9015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭


    Not sure if this is the right place, but here goes.

    I have a printer attached to the PC via USB. The PC is connected by Ethernet to the router. The laptop is connected to the router over WiFi.

    I had a Zyxel modem, and had the printer set up to be accessible to the laptop via the network - it worked fine. Eir decided to send a new modem, an F2000, and now I cannot make the laptop see the PC over the network at all. Is there a setting in the new modem (one of the vaunted "security" features) that needs adjusting to allow this set-up to continue? The printer is getting on, so I don't think attaching it to the USB port on the modem is going to work, even if it is the more elegant option.

    Oh, and the modem is currently refusing to allow access via the default web address. I hate computers!

    MTIA for any thoughts - Mods, please move if more suitable elsewhere.


Comments

  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,095 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Old thread - may be solved - but either or both of the computers see the new router as a "New Network" and thus have set it to public/unknown. Tell them both its a "Home" network, allow printing and away you go.


  • #3
    Sean9015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭Sean9015


    Thanks for that - that was part of the solution, along with a complete shut-down and reboot of everything. I hate computers at times :)


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