topic Re: Adding wifi printer to home network in Full Fibre

Adding wifi printer to home network

Tennyman — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:57:36 GMT

We have just had full fibre and an Amazon eero router fitted plus a voice adapter - phone, computers and internet working fine but can not seem to connect printer to the computers by wifi. can someone explain the method in simple terms, please?

Re: Adding wifi printer to home network

Gondola — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:54:06 GMT

You may need to temporarily disable the 5GHZ network.

On the eero app select the Settings tab
Select Troubleshooting
Select My device won't connect
Select My device is 2.4GHz only
Select the blue button Temporarily pause 5GHz

There's also advice from the eero Support Hub in the guide below about using legacy mode.

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Re: Adding wifi printer to home network

KeithFrench — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 09:40:11 GMT

You have not said which make/model of printer you have & which connection method you are trying to use. I do not think that the Eero router supports WPS (is that correct @Gondola), so you may have to manually select your WiFi network on the printer and enter its password from there as well. Please see your printer's documentation.

Re: Adding wifi printer to home network

Gondola — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 10:24:13 GMT

As Keith says, you select the eero network at the printer interface so the printer knows which network it needs to connect to and then if there's an issue connecting to the eero 2.4GHz network it can help by temporarily disabling the eero 5GHz network which is what my advice is.

Here's more advice from eero Support on connecting a printer.

In practice I've found the eero to be easy to use and when I last changed my printer setup from a secondary router on my network to the eero all I did was select the eero network at the printer and the connection was made. Very easy.

Re: Adding wifi printer to home network

Tennyman — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 21:37:39 GMT

Hi, Many thanks for your answer. I eventually realised that when my printer was saying WLAN rather than the expected Wifi it was meaning the same - but it really isn't. Anyway I have successfully connected it to one laptop - now later to see if it is connected to my wife's also!

Thank again Keith

Re: Adding wifi printer to home network

KeithFrench — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 12:03:34 GMT

You're very welcome.

Re: Adding wifi printer to home network

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 05:35:42 GMT

Morning,

Thanks for confirming and please let us know if you need any assistance 🙂

Thanks