topic Re: Google Wifi Mesh in Nest Wifi

Google Wifi Mesh

jpuncher — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 09:33:04 GMT

I have 2 nest Wifi devices to cover my bungalow which work well, these run multiple Wifi devices including an HP 9025 printer. I also have a W10 workstation which is my workhorse that is hard wired to router and I have had multiple problems printing and more so scanning because printer will only work on Wifi or ethernet or USB but not any 2 at same time

If I bought an additional Nest device and set this up in close proximity to my workstation, could I then connect from new Nest unit to my computer from the ethernet port of Nest unit

I hope you can help

John

Re: Google Wifi Mesh

Juzdu — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 23:42:26 GMT

Hi John, how would this change your issue though? You currently have your PC hard wired to the router, and the HP printer wireless. If you buy a new wifi point (it would have to be a router acting as a point as Nest wifi points don't have an ethernet port) and wire your PC to that, you still have the same situation, wired PC, wifi printer. Actually you might be worse 'coz your PC will be getting wifi speed instead of cabled speed, and from a mesh point rather than the router.

I'd be working on why your printer won't work...are you only printing from your W10 workstation or do other devices print to it? It shouldn't have a problem with multiple input sources, i.e. jobs coming over wifi vs usb vs ethernet. What's it connected to via USB currently?

Re: Google Wifi Mesh

jpuncher — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:17:12 GMT

Hi Juzdu, Thank you for coming back to me I think I may have overcome problem which was printer going off line. My workstation was/is connected via USB and with this printer HP instructions were to download and use HP Smart to control printer and scanning function. I have now found a far better scanning app and fingers crossed all seems to be well. It looks like HP Smart is targeted at wireless devices like phones and tablets and not good old fashion workhorses

Thanks for your time, kind regards

John

Re: Google Wifi Mesh

Jeff — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 21:22:47 GMT

Hi, jpuncher.

Thanks for coming back with an update. Hopefully that proves to be the fix for you going forward. Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you on this or anything else.

Thanks.

Re: Google Wifi Mesh

jpuncher — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:11:17 GMT

Hi Jeff

All now seems well and my problem is solved

Thank you everyone for your time

John

Re: Google Wifi Mesh

Jeff — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:44:11 GMT

Sounds great, jpuncher. Thanks for the follow up.

I'll go ahead and mark this as resolved. If anyone needs anything else, please feel free to open up a new thread.

Thanks.