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My community has a Cisco network and Meraki wi-fi. The administration network is separate from the resident network. We have persistent and unresolved problems with printers that use the network. In some cases, the printer can be configured with a unique name. But it rare that a resident has the skill to change the name. Consequenty, people choose the wrong printer from a list that can be thirty or more.

The easiest fix is to use a wire connection. Another fix is to isolate from the community network with a router that creates a network in one's apartment.

Verizon forced the community to take the internet as part of the FIOS cable TV basic package. So the simplest fix here is to switch to one's Verizon internet connection. If I take my laptop to a meeting, I have to manually switch it back to Verizon when I return to my apt.

Richmond Shreve

NaCCRA Board Member

Forum Moderator

We have a very ubiquitous WiFi campus network. Many residents depend on this network for all of their internet access as few are interested in paying for and maintaining their own internet interface. While the network is ubiquitous, it was implemented in the early 1970s and still has most segments with old cabling technology (CAT 3/4). Most residents connect their personal printers to the campus WiFi. They have begun to understand the network privacy is not an engineered-in service when they have another resident unintentionally print on their printer (or vice versa).

Do any of you have similar problems, or have you solved them?

Carl

Operations Committee Chairman

Vinson Hall Retirement Association

McLean, VA 22101