Before you read this I ask you to read it all 😣
I have a BT smarthub 2 and an EE Hybrid Connect unit to overcome the very bad Broadband reception in our area.
(My phone bills come from BT.)
I have three computers on an ethernet private network.
The router is wired to computer 1 which is about10m from the other two, plugs into a broadband (openreach) socket.
A stand-alone printer close to computer 1 is accessed by Wifi.
( there was another WiFi printer adjacent to computers 2 &3 but this died).
The wifi works.
When I look at the Network on the Win 11 computers, the printers are present.
My Smartphone recognises the wifi network, as does the TV which runs of a Freesat box.
iPlayer works perfectly off the same network (I think).
This is all a bit boring , BUT: we had asked the engineer who installed the Smarthub2 and Hybrid Connect to disable the WiFi as the ethernet network seemed to work ok.
Networking the computers didn't actually achieve any thing after I enabled the wireless printer, so I never bothered checking whether they still showed up in the Network section of Settings.
They don't!!
The third computer is a 32bit XP3, which is also plugged into the ethernet.
I thought: I'll try connecting them wirelessly , but I realised I'd have to set up a wireless network.
I ran a check to see if all the computers could do this, and there was no wireless facility on any of them.
I'll need the dongles for all of them I thought...............but how does the printer work??
Next step activate the router's wireless mode. Scanned the QR code on the router using my smartphone, and discovered I'd need an EE ID!
Anyone know where I'll find this? and thanks for getting this far😁
