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Title: Two Wireless Connections at the Same Time
Post by: Pondering on August 13, 2011, 08:08:31 AM

My kid is heading off to college with a Toshiba Satellite E-205 laptop and a Kodak ESP Office 2150 printer. She would like to use the wireless printer option on the Kodak, which requires a wireless router. I have a D-Link DIR-655 wireless router that I can send with her.

I know her university has a very robust wireless system for Internet access, so she is going to want to use their wireless access.

So, the DIR-655 sole use will be to allow access to the printer. It will not be accessing the Internet or be cabled into the university's network.

Is it possible to operate TWO wireless connections at the same time so she can hit her university wireless and the DIR-655 so she can print wirelessly?

If so, how do I configure the laptop and the DIR-655 to allow this kind of access?

Thanks!

--Steve

Title: Re: Two Wireless Connections at the Same Time
Post by: davevt31 on August 13, 2011, 08:54:08 AM

You may have to check with the university, many of them don't allow student routers to be used.

Title: Re: Two Wireless Connections at the Same Time
Post by: Sammydad1 on August 13, 2011, 09:46:15 AM

just run  a usb cable from her laptop to the printer....

OR
you might also get one of those little nubby USB Wireless adapters and set up a secondary (ADHOC) LAN between her laptop and the printer....In theory that "should" work....  Tho you likely will need to work out the bugs at home before she goes away to school...

I refer to something like this item...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166052 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166052)