its a brand new hub 3. just don't understand how they can get away with supplying such carp.
About To Reverse Over My Printer
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i have a similar issue with TT
I use their supplied thingie to connect to BB as then that is their problem, all my stuff connects via a Draytek, no issues so far,
I also have a ragged netgear, and an old buffalo used as switches, no issues with them either apart from the buffalo dropping wifi constantly, which drives me mad, need something better for theshed workshop
I use their supplied thingie to connect to BB as then that is their problem, all my stuff connects via a Draytek, no issues so far,
I also have a ragged netgear, and an old buffalo used as switches, no issues with them either apart from the buffalo dropping wifi constantly, which drives me mad, need something better for the
You are right. It is not on. It can surely be nothing to do with the fact BT charge you for phone help for network problems. Noooooo!
Just wondering why your hub has anything to do with the printer , bearing in mind I know begger all, I have HP Photosmart printer , hardwired to PC ...works a treat .
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Printer before my last one got launched out the back door.
It was a calculated decision, i had wasted enough time and decided a new one was easier.
Launching it out the back door in a dramatic style made me feel a little bit better.
It was a calculated decision, i had wasted enough time and decided a new one was easier.
Launching it out the back door in a dramatic style made me feel a little bit better.
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My present printer is a network printer. And for the laptop to print to it, it has to connect via wi fi through the router.
Even before that the previous printer was hard wired to the desktop pc and that also connected to the laptop over wi fi as a shared printer.
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A few months ago, I had a problem with my Toshiba laptop. I was on holiday and it froze again, It happened once too often and I knew its days were numbered. We had some people round, I calmly removed the HDD. put it on the floor and proceeded to jump up and down on it and launch it out the door. People looked awkward and shocked like I had lost it but I knew what I was doing.
Printer still playing up. The next day it decided to print 6 copies of the sheet I was trying to print the day before. Still hate it, and the laptop and windows 10 and everything else....
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sorry Noz, no one took any pics, in fact people started leaving cos they thought I was really angry... it was awkward
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Back with being really annoyed and ready to smash laptop and printer so please help.....
now changed to Sky for internet etc. Not able to print. HP mfp 175 colour laser printer all in one scanner etc. Generally been a good machine. Found it impossible to print. Its wireless, the printer was listed as one o the networks in the wifi settings. If you connected to it you lost your internet.
OK, perhaps the best thing to do is delete the printer and just re install it and start from scratch... yes?
Windows 10. Plug in printer to USB and it starts doing the smart install thing. Then I get a message popup saying windows "Windows has blocked this application for your safety" or something like that.
tried turning off windows defender and its still not having it.
tried to fix it using an online fix that was telling me to go on my start menu.... cant even find that!
now changed to Sky for internet etc. Not able to print. HP mfp 175 colour laser printer all in one scanner etc. Generally been a good machine. Found it impossible to print. Its wireless, the printer was listed as one o the networks in the wifi settings. If you connected to it you lost your internet.
OK, perhaps the best thing to do is delete the printer and just re install it and start from scratch... yes?
Windows 10. Plug in printer to USB and it starts doing the smart install thing. Then I get a message popup saying windows "Windows has blocked this application for your safety" or something like that.
tried turning off windows defender and its still not having it.
tried to fix it using an online fix that was telling me to go on my start menu.... cant even find that!
My hp printer is wireless and I had to connect it to my WiFi... Print jobs get sent from my laptop through my router and then to my printer..
I have never connected to my printer directly
I have never connected to my printer directly
As per Noz Rev, would suggest connecting your printer to the router, then install the drivers for that configuration.
HP wireless printers, renowned for being completely useless. I have never seen one reliably working for any length of time.
Windows 10, far too early to be usable, not seen it working reliably yet.
Sky routers, absolutely hopeless. I would not use one, in fact I would never use an ISP supplied router as they all useless, but the recent Sky ones are the worst.
So yeah, no chance of seeing any of it working!
Windows 10, far too early to be usable, not seen it working reliably yet.
Sky routers, absolutely hopeless. I would not use one, in fact I would never use an ISP supplied router as they all useless, but the recent Sky ones are the worst.
So yeah, no chance of seeing any of it working!
Well... I have both a sky router and hp printer and they both work fine 
The router is 5 years old and the printer is nearly 4 years old
The router is 5 years old and the printer is nearly 4 years old
Just noticed the printer is listed as a network on the wifi list but has an exclamation mark next to it. clicking on it does nothing but connect to it and disconnect the sky wifi
Rev,
Try to connect the printer to the Sky router first, that will give it a valid ip address in "your" ip pool covered by your subnet mask.
Then you should be able to get the ip address from the printer console, and then try opening a command prompt in Win 10, same as before Win key & R type cmd, press enter type ping then the ip address of your printer.
That will let you know if your pc can "see" the printer.
Rev,
It's in the wrong "mode", your printer is trying to be a "master" you need it to be a "slave" to your Sky router, and get it's ip from the sky router,
I've just stuck Win10 on my Mac for a laugh!
No it's not why I have pc problems, I use a Win7Pro m/c as my production machine.
Try to connect the printer to the Sky router first, that will give it a valid ip address in "your" ip pool covered by your subnet mask.
Then you should be able to get the ip address from the printer console, and then try opening a command prompt in Win 10, same as before Win key & R type cmd, press enter type ping then the ip address of your printer.
That will let you know if your pc can "see" the printer.
Rev,
It's in the wrong "mode", your printer is trying to be a "master" you need it to be a "slave" to your Sky router, and get it's ip from the sky router,
I've just stuck Win10 on my Mac for a laugh!
No it's not why I have pc problems, I use a Win7Pro m/c as my production machine.
Agree on the static IP, all "important" devices on our network are static IP.
Mind, that's all of them pretty much as I have a strict bind mac to ip on the dhcp server, so they pretty much have to be static, gonna be an issue if I ever get above 300 devices though!
Mind, that's all of them pretty much as I have a strict bind mac to ip on the dhcp server, so they pretty much have to be static, gonna be an issue if I ever get above 300 devices though!
