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🗓️ 20 April 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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In this episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah Sargent tackles Kevin's question about connecting a wired printer to a mesh network. Kevin had previously used a powerline adapter to connect his non-WiFi printer to his conventional network but now needs a solution that works with his new eero mesh setup.
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Host: Mikah Sargent
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0:00.0 | Coming up on Hands on Tech, we've got a printer question, and I will be answering it. |
0:07.4 | Stay tuned. |
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1:18.0 | Hello and welcome to hands-on tech, the show where you write in with your questions and I answer them. |
1:24.8 | I mean, that's really all there is to it. |
1:26.9 | I am pleased to say that this week |
1:29.6 | features a question about printers, and I am pleased to say I can answer it very easily. So, |
1:38.2 | this question comes in from Kevin. Kevin writes in to say, I have a mesh network at home, |
1:43.9 | but before I used conventional |
1:46.0 | Wi-Fi and could not connect to a printer not connected to Wi-Fi. So I used a power line adapter |
1:52.0 | to make this connection. Now that I have a mesh network, I am looking for a solution to connect |
1:57.4 | via an Ethernet cable. I have another ERO add-on available, but I don't think it allows a wired connection to this add-on extender. |
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