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I have an ASUS AC5300 router running my house network, mostly wired but a few wireless things - iPhones/Pads, Sky boxes etc and it all works fine..... except for simple Wi-Fi connections from Printers, electronic scales and a couple of other things.
I have worked round this for years by setting up a range extender as a second wireless network and then those printers etc connect perfectly.
I remain very curious why my fancy expensive router will not let these items connect either at all or reliably. The most recent issue was with a new Canon Pixma printer my daughter bought, it is fairly fancy but just would not connect to the Wi-Fi and had no hardwire port. We nearly returned it until I remembered about the weirdness and connected to my range extender, worked perfectly.
The router setup is simple straight from the box, two separate channels for 2.4g and 5g gets updated regularly and all phones etc work perfectly connection to it. It has WPA2 Personal AES authentication
Help please?
I have worked round this for years by setting up a range extender as a second wireless network and then those printers etc connect perfectly.
I remain very curious why my fancy expensive router will not let these items connect either at all or reliably. The most recent issue was with a new Canon Pixma printer my daughter bought, it is fairly fancy but just would not connect to the Wi-Fi and had no hardwire port. We nearly returned it until I remembered about the weirdness and connected to my range extender, worked perfectly.
The router setup is simple straight from the box, two separate channels for 2.4g and 5g gets updated regularly and all phones etc work perfectly connection to it. It has WPA2 Personal AES authentication
Help please?