printer installation only on modem

[tonerhead]

Re: printer installation only on modem

U R absolutely right Mojorolla. If we don't get cancer, we'll be hit by a beer truck, or (in the US) be shot down by a random shooting somewhere like a grocery store

[Rewind!]

Re: printer installation only on modem

Afternoon!

Stand alone modems normally do not have the resources to run a DHCP server and update reference tables. Some security appliances can act as both a modem/firewall but these can cost a bit. It all depends on the size of company, # of employees, and scalability. I personally love using UniFi, devices and Netgate security appliances. Easy to setup, and love the functionality of them. These are more on the IT side, but should be easy to learn and deploy. But for 10-15 users any of the netgear wireless routers should work, but in a business environment its more secure to run your wireless network and routing functions on seperate devices, hopes this helps a bit.

JC

[mojorolla]

Re: printer installation only on modem

U R absolutely right Mojorolla. If we don't get cancer, we'll be hit by a beer truck, or (in the US) be shot down by a random shooting somewhere like a grocery store

Makes me think of this scene. Its Friday, enjoy.
And don't wait too long to fill out those organ donor cards....

https://youtu.be/n08mNz9f0FQ

[slimslob]

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This is off target here, but I also believe the radiation produced by devices like phones and IOT wireless devices do cause cancer. I do not like to use my cell, I use it out of necessity. Cell phones and wireless technologies are relatively new in the short term of life. I would be curious to live 50 years more where the children of today are retiring adults. I wonder what their rate of brain cancer, etc will be compared to someone in their 60's today.

It brings back a fear of 40 years ago. Microwave ovens were very expensive and just starting to show up. I was 22 and saw my first microwave oven. The first thing I tried to cook?? A hotdog!!! My friend told me to set it for 1 minute. I set it for 5 minutes being that was how long it took on the stove to boil from a frozen state. (It was quite the excitement, it obliterated that hot dog. I later told my mom of my new experience. She told me never to use a microwave again because I might die of radiation poisoning. A few years later I got my first one also. I was doomed according to my mom. But a few years later guess who also got one and this time was excited about it?

Back to cancer.... we have radiation all around us everywhere hard to say what will do what to us. During electronics training we did some microwave transmission training in a lab. It was mainly transponder/receiver alignment lab. The transponder had a gate around it. I remember the lab instructor saying "If anyone wants to have kids someday, do not enter the gate without the power being down"

In the 1980s and 1990s there was a childhood cancer cluster in the town of McFarland, CA, about 20 miles north of Bakersfield. There were couple of families who felt that the cause was the Delano VOA, Voice Of America, transmitter just west of Delano, CA and about 10 to 15 miles away from McFarland. There were no reports of a childhood cancer cluster in or near Delano.

The Delano facility had been built in late 1945 to early 1946. It was contracted by the OWI (office of War Information) who was successful in developing additional shortwave sites, to be built and operated by private industry. The Delano site was built by CBS and was the home of KCBF and KCBA. During the Vietnam War it was part of the Armed Forces Radio Network transmitting programming by shortwave to military operated radio stations in Vietnam aand possibly during the Korean Conflict. During its first 4 decades of operation there were no cancer clusters.

[tonerhead]

Re: printer installation only on modem

Afternoon!

Stand alone modems normally do not have the resources to run a DHCP server and update reference tables. Some security appliances can act as both a modem/firewall but these can cost a bit. It all depends on the size of company, # of employees, and scalability. I personally love using UniFi, devices and Netgate security appliances. Easy to setup, and love the functionality of them. These are more on the IT side, but should be easy to learn and deploy. But for 10-15 users any of the netgear wireless routers should work, but in a business environment its more secure to run your wireless network and routing functions on seperate devices, hopes this helps a bit.

JC

My guess is they have something similar "NETGEAR N300 (8x4) WiFi Cable Modem Router Combo C3000, DOCSIS 3.0 | Certified for Xfinity by Comcast, Spectrum, COX & more (C3000)

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This is dual lan (the two yellow ethernet ports) You plug the copier or a switch into one and the router handles dhcp.

[Mark Bbb]

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You are correct. Currently many of the "modems" are also wireless routers built in. They generally have one ethernet port for plugging in a switch if needed for wired devices. Depending upon how far the copier is from the "modem" you should be able to plug the copier into the ethernet port and away you go. If not, you could get a wireless bridge or wireless print server for the copier and hook it up wireless to the "modem" We do this all of the time, not too expensive. I don't know if Ricoh ever made their wireless adapters better, but they were a lot more expensive than a wireless bridge and didn't work worth a $h!T.

Main point is the "modem" is likely also a wireless router with an ethernet port for a switch or device (copier). You likely do not need a router since the computers are on a wireless network.


Something cheap like this is what you likely need

Amazon.com: BrosTrend AC1200 Ethernet-2-WiFi Universal Wireless Adapter for Printer, Smart TV, Blu-Ray Player, Game Console, PS4, Xbox: Computers & Accessories

We did plug the printer in one of the 5 ports of the modem. I could not ping the printer with the modem, nor did we get a dhcp ip address (but as someone told here before, that service might be not available).

[Mark Bbb]

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Well, No way to escape EM fields. As a matter of fact, every human being on earth lives within one. This field (Schumann resonance) encompasses everything from the ground to the ionosphere, and vibrates at an average of 7.83 hz, and matches the operating frequency of the human brain. Pretty sure it's a symbiotic relationship with our old mother earth.

Mika, that is true, i know about this resonance.
Human created magnetic fields might disturb this "natural mother of the resonances".
What are the consequences of this disturbance?
What's the price (because there is always a price that comes with a new invention)?
A new invention can't be fast enough introduced on the market; but afterwards, when healthy troubles comes up THAN it's going to be examined...

[tonerhead]

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We did plug the printer in one of the 5 ports of the modem. I could not ping the printer with the modem, nor did we get a dhcp ip address (but as someone told here before, that service might be not available).

Have you webbed into the modem? Maybe the wired ports are turned off. What sort of modem are we talking about? What is the model? Perhaps it is a stand alone. If it is stand alone, how are the laptops on the network and how do they get to the internet?

[Gift]

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When i was phoned a lot on my cell phone at the end of the day my guts hurts on the spot where i kept my cell phone in a little bag on my belt (right side).

So did I.... in the 90s with my Nokia 5130 and celebtrating myself as the "Snake" champion in the hood