Devices: Wireless-G Broadband Router with Speedbooster HP Laserjet 2300 Problem: The printer has a static IP and was working fine and continues to work when connected directly to the ethernet port. However, I was recently forced to move the printer into make shift lab that doesn't have any wall ports. The room does however have a wireless router with four ethernet ports (like most routers). We have several routers through out the building and they were all given static IP addresses as well. So the problem comes when I try to print to this printer while is on the router. I know I'm missing something. The both have the same gateway, subnet mask, dns and wins server information. Computers connected to the routers just error out while computers that are set to print to the printer aren't able to connect to it. I need help in the worst way. Thanks in advance to any with an idea of what's going on.

Couple of things could be going on. First question is the printers ip in the same ip subnet as this new location routers lan? I suspect not. In other words you have a ipsubnet between routers or they couldn't route. You have a ip subnet on your lan off each router. Those need to be different so the routers know where to route to from wkst to wkst. You moved the ip printer. It should have a new ip address according to the lan it is in. If you did this I would next look at DNS and WINS. Since this is a static assignment you need to update those entries. If using a print queue, and not direct ip printing, you would also need to update the ip information/share information for the queue. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

The DNS and WINS were made the same. The printer is hooked up as IP connections. But if i got one part right, since the printer is on the router now, it would need one of those 192.168.x.x IPs now? So the Static IP won't work?

Start at the bottom and work up. That means ip address first THEN dns/wins entries. You can still assign static. Again the question is what is the ip subnet of the lan its located on now???? Is the router providing dhcp??? Assuming this lan is 192.168.x.x you would, for example, assign the printer a static ip address of 192.168.x.254. You would then EXCLUDE that address in the dhcp scope on the router [unless you like ip conflicts] Then you would update your dns/wins entries to the correct address. Knowing the correct answer and giving a correct answer, are two different things