On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 19:10 -0400, John Mellor wrote: > That depends upon the printer. I have an HP6962 that has its own > wifi node that broadcasts and is automatically found by Fedora. Its a > pain in the behind, as all the other equipment also finds and lists > the option to use this as the main uplink router even though that is > never going to work. That also means that it is taking channels and > cutting the available bandwidth on my main wifi router. I concur with Ed, that sounds like WiFi direct, because of you mentioning other things think it's a gateway. That's kind of the point of WiFi direct, it's a kind of peer-to-peer thing for things like visiting mobile phones that aren't in your network, or to allow them in places that don't have a WiFi network. Looking up that model, it has WiFi, ethernet, and USB. You can change how it connects, and you have a lot of control (on the printer) over its network configuration. You may, or may not, be able to have more than one kind of connection simultaneously (I never rely on the manuals for this, the product may behave differently from the manual). I have one Pixma printer that is USB-connected to the adjacent PC, while being networked to everything else, and I don't think that's supposedly supported. https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-officejet-6960-all-in-one-printer-series/9514854/model/9514772/manuals I wouldn't think you lose much in the way of bandwidth. It's only going to announce itself periodically. You'd have to be using it for it take up lots of bandwidth. Having said that, I avoid WiFi and use ethernet wherever possible, it's just more predictable and reliable. Here's another thing with WiFi: Even if things aren't using much in the way of bandwidth, some devices can only handle there being so many things connected to it. So, a house full of smart devices (e.g. lamps, etc), can reach its limit, even though they don't really have much data traffic. Most people using WiFi at home are just using some domestic WiFi router, it's a tiny unimpressive computer running in a plastic box, probably built to minimum specification for what they think the average person might do. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 5 16:57:59 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
