Ricohs and wireless

[mikadonovan]

Hi All. I think I read somewhere on the forum that some have used a wireless router of some sort instead of the wireless adapter offered by Ricoh for LAN connection. If you know something about this, could you give me the particulars? Thank you.

[mikadonovan]

Re: Ricohs and wireless

Never mind, I found it. Have a great Christmas, everyone.

[KenB]

Re: Ricohs and wireless

Good call on ditching the Ricoh wireless card.

It's expensive, and not very reliable.

If the signal strength dares to dip to 60% or lower, count on it going offline.

If you have @Remote enabled and generating service calls, count on getting a call each time it takes a dive.

If you can be certain you will have 80% or better 100% of the time, they work OK.

I had a customer about 5 or so years ago that was a genuine jackass, and we were forced to bite the bullet and provide him with a wireless repeater because the MFP kept going offline. The 3 PCs all within a few feet of it worked with no issues.

Maybe the the newer ones are better, but I really doubt it.

[Tonerbomb]

Re: Ricohs and wireless

Mika, I've been using the netgear wireless adapters for 2 or 3 years and all is well................

[Counsel]

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I had a church once that didnt have internet at all and they would walk across the room and connect a usb and stand there just to print with their laptop to make it easy on them I gave them my old netgear router and set it up by the machine and plugged the machine directly into it so they could be wireless for printing.

Otherwise i have used netgear LAN adapters or Ext's they work pretty well i even use them at home for my tivo boxes because moca didnt work on the coax i have.

[copier tech]

Re: Ricohs and wireless

I've installed a few Ricoh wifi cards on the Metis series & not had any issues, I extend the 2x wifi antenna as high as possible in a V shape this seems to give the best reception

[zed255]

Re: Ricohs and wireless

Never been fond of the Ricoh wireless adapter. It can be flaky and as KenB mentioned the signal has to be rally good for decent performance.

There are lots of options at the local computer hardware store / big box stores / online that have a better shot at working well and will cost less.

[sturmtrooper]

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The Ricoh wireless is expensive and the interface for it is stupid and intuitive. A wireless extender or access point with at least one lan port for the copier is a better deal and easier to do, plus it will work with any copier that has network capability.