can i use my broadband router for wireless printer

phildenny

Hi,
I'm new here so I hope someone can help me with this problem.
I need a wireless printer to use with my laptop, looking at canon pixma mp620. I have wireless broadband using netgear wireless g router (from UTV my ISP). I thought that this would be ok to set a wireless printer buy a guy in computer shop told me I needed a different router (around €100) and someone to set it up, another €100 he said. I'm not sure I believe him as someone in another shop told me the router I have for broadband would do,
Can anyone tell me which is correct?
thanks

Orion

Guy A is full of crap. Your netgear router is fine. Any wireless router is fine. A wireless device is a wireless device - no special router required.

[edit]Welcome to boards by the way

[edit2]Someone to set it up? He's a barefaced liar trying to make a commission. It's easy to set up - just like connecting a laptop. If you have any problems doing it post here and I or someone else will help out.

Please name and shame this shop - that is complete muppetry on his part.

mrmac

I'm looking at doing something similiar.
Can I just connect my printer to my wireless router via usb?

GAAman

Yes to both posters askin there

To the op i got http://www.computerbits.ie/product_details.asp?product=5063 this printer and you dont need a wireless router to operate it, as long as the comp you are printing from is wireless it will connect perfectly (as long as you install the cd that comes with it of course)

Orion

mrmac wrote: »

I'm looking at doing something similiar.
Can I just connect my printer to my wireless router via usb?

Probably not. I'm not aware of any standard (ISP provided) routers that have a print server built-in for USB printers. You can buy them but if the printer has a builtin wireless card then you can connect it to the router wirelessly and use it on any PC.

GAAman wrote: »

To the op i got http://www.computerbits.ie/product_details.asp?product=5063 this printer and you dont need a wireless router to operate it, as long as the comp you are printing from is wireless it will connect perfectly (as long as you install the cd that comes with it of course)

This is true. Any wireless printer can be connected via USB to a PC and shared from that PC. The downside is that if you want to share it to other computers the host PC must be on all the time. So if you have a wireless router you're better off using that.

phildenny

thanks to all for the advice. It's reassuring to know that my router will work. I don't want to have my PC on all time, so the router seems best option. re shop, am I allowed name and shame.
phil

Orion

Absolutely. You don't have to give names of people - just the name of the shop you were in looking at printers would be nice to know. I'm guessing it's one of the Dixons crowd anyway

phildenny

Shop was not a chain, it's in kilkenny near market cross for anyone who knows it. Not much use to most people I guess, but for anyone from kk, prices are high too, printer I was looking at was €220, compared to €169 in Carlow and €145 incl. delivery from Komplett.

KatCookie

i know said shop in Kilkenny (my father bought the MP210 there over a year ago), were you talking to a woman or an oldish guy?
Yes things are over priced but get up a bit of banter and the'll knock off €10-15 for you, and they are decent about having things exchanged and so on
They could have just being trying to get you to buy the router but then again, they mightnt have known... and as for needing somebody to set it up? Nah!
but i can point you in the direction of someone who *should* be able to fix it up for you if you get stuck,
oh, and a last thought, if you buy printer and it wont work with the router (hopefully not the case) Then you can buy the router they suggested, but theres obviously no point in a buying a router *incase* you need it!