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ZeroConf actually works pretty well as long as everything is in the same range.
Is that on a Mac? Windows doesn't seem to support it.
Edit: until build 1703 in 2017. Huh!
Printing at home is so horrible. I have a printer connected to my Wifi router. It changes IP every time I reboot. When it changes IP, Windows can't find it. I can give the printer a static IP but how many people know to do this? Wifi has been around for more than 2 decades. Isn't that enough time to figure out a solution?
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ZeroConf actually works pretty well as long as everything is in the same range.
Is that on a Mac? Windows doesn't seem to support it.
It could be your router defaults to blocking broadcast packets related to wireless devices. (Either in or out)
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You missed the point. I wasn't asking for help on how to assign a static IP address. My point was that ordinary people shouldn't have to know what an IP address is, let alone what a static IP address is, in this day and age.
That's wishful thinking, imo. If you want to have a network, someone needs to know a bit of networking. Or you need someone you can call who does. Don't get mad at the printer for what your router is doing to its IP address. This day and age isn't as advanced as you'd like it to be, or you need a new router that does what you expect.
Microsoft is behind the times.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-configuration_networking
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You missed the point. I wasn't asking for help on how to assign a static IP address. My point was that ordinary people shouldn't have to know what an IP address is, let alone what a static IP address is, in this day and age.
That's wishful thinking, imo. If you want to have a network, someone needs to know a bit of networking. Or you need someone you can call who does. Don't get mad at the printer for what your router is doing to its IP address. This day and age isn't as advanced as you'd like it to be, or you need a new router that does what you expect.
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Did you turn off the HP "DIRECT" wifi AP that screams at the top of its lungs and hogs valuable wifi spectrum? I live in a fairly low density townhouse, and 3 of my neighbors' printers are visible..
It's not broadcasting that, so either I did turn it off (and then forgot), or it was off by default. That's funny though. Can you connect to them and print them a message asking them to turn it off?
What about Brother?
Printing at home is so horrible. I have a printer connected to my Wifi router. It changes IP every time I reboot. When it changes IP, Windows can't find it. I can give the printer a static IP but how many people know to do this? Wifi has been around for more than 2 decades. Isn't that enough time to figure out a solution?
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It could be your router giving it a new IP address, but the printer itself hopefully has a static MAC address. Check your router settings for static IP assignment, they may be under a section called DHCP. Over there you could give it a static IP address for its current MAC address EDIT: this comment no longer makes sense after the parent comment was edited. It used to be explicitly asking for help and didn't mention…
It's actually sometimes sold as a "security" feature - short DHCP leases with no memory. Which is kinda silly, if the router hasn't needed to give the IP to another client, just remember it forever.
>This framework improves reliability and performance by moving customization from the Win32 framework to the UWP software development framework.
I can't trust Microsoft to do anything right anymore.