Printers and Switches

[gvidalon]

I have 3 printers, can i plug them all to a switch and the plug that switch to a wireless router, will that work????

 

[Alabalcho]

It depends how your wireless router is set up. If WiFi gets same network as wired - yes, it should work (as long as your printers are network-enabled). From networking point of view, there's no difference between printer, computer, server or WiFi laptop - as long as they are in same IP network (that is, you did not set WiFi as "guest network")

 

[NerdIT]

Yes this will work.

We can assume the printers are network capable because they have Ethernet ports to hook up to the switch.

The Wi-Fi does not come into play as you are hard wiring into a switch-and they do not have to be the same subnet, in fact the hard wired printer can "be" on the Wi-Fi network as long as you make sure the printers get a valid IP host address in that Wi-Fi subnet.

Assign them static IP addresses in the same range as your wired or Wi-Fi network, or let DHCP give them an address if both are on the same subnet (a lot of routers are like this by default).

This is the only requirement from the router -other than it it simply working.

The switch does all the work.