I changed my router last night for a new one, and I am trying to set up the computers and wireless printer. I have a Virgin cable modem and Netgear router and my computers link to them wirelessly. Is this an ad hoc network?
OK thanks. When Mrs Codger comes home she will greet me with those famous words -"why didn't you leave the old router ?" Fact was it kept losing signal so I had to change it.The reason why I am asking is because I am struggling to get my Samsung wireless printer to work. It has a WPS button on it, but that doesn't seem to want to help to connect to the router. So I have done it manually. I managed to get it to connect once this morning. But, on the old router I also used a network cable permanently fixed between the printer and the router, to stop it from going off line. So today, I just got it set up wirelessly, but when I added the network cable the printer immediately lost its wireless connection and I can't print to it. And I can't get it back again. It's driving me round the bend! This is worth my new subs to FF alone if anyone can guide me through what I am doing wrong ! I tried Samsung and the guy there said he could get somebody to call me back - on Monday!No, it isn't a ad-hoc network because presumably you are connecting via the router. You have an infrastructure network.
That's what I've just done.Basically totally re-installed the printer. I have now managed to get one computer printing OK, wirelessly, but not the other one. Working on the theory that the computer may be blocking it , but I am sure that can be sorted.Tried doing a factory reset on the Samsung printer - then let it connect to the new wireless network using whatever SSID and security that you have in place?
So if the printer stays permanently connected by a cable to the router, then any computer that accesses the network can still print to it without being physically comnnected to it?If you do that then disable the printers wireless, save confusion.