How can I connect my laptop WIRELESSLY to my brother MFC 620CF printer? -

I have a wi-fi ready laptop, plugged into a broad-band connection in my living room, but my printer is next door in my office. My Brother MFC 620 multi-function printer is supposed to be network ready and feel that there is an obvious way of printing wirelessly with it from my laptop in the next room, but don t know how; can anyone help?

have a wirless capable router then do this Set up Home network =============== If you cannot find these locations search for them in windows help files Click start gt;help and support. Wire in all computers and printer to the router using cat 5 cable from their Ethernet ports. Cat 5 is faster than wifi. If you buy your router from your ISP there is a good chance they will set it up for you. Check your ISP website for contact number. Your ISP has to connect the router to the internet. Then on each computer: 1. My Computer gt;Folder Optionsgt;View Tabgt;tick “use simple file sharing” 2. In My computer Right click the Hard Drive that you want to share gt;sharing and search gt; tick share the folder in network 3. On desktop screen select the my computer icon and right click the icon gt;properties gt;computer name tab gt; Changegt; bullet workgroup and type in WORKGROUP 4. In control panel category view gt;network and internet connections a. select network connections gt; Find the LAN connection Icon gt;right click gt;enable b. Find the Windows Firewall pop up gt;bullet Off ( disable any other firewall programs) c. Find the LAN connection icon gt;right click gt;repair d. In LAN connection properties pop up gt; Tick the four items in the main window gt; in properties screen for Internet Protocol gt;general tab gt;bullet two auto instructions 5. Using Explorer, expand My Network Places in the directory tree gt;select Workgroup gt; click on workgroup and what you can see in the results. This is your home network., you should see each computer that is in the Workgroup domain. 6. You can plug a network printer in the router and load the network printer drivers into each computer and each computer can access the same printer. 7. If you have a sensitive part of a computer that you do not want to share on the network, right click and un tick the sharing.. This can be the Hard drive, partition, folder or file. 8. You do not have to have sharing enabled on your computer to see others, you need sharing on Your computer enabled so others can see you. 9. After all computers are turned on and running, enable the firewall program you use on each computer. 10. Each computer will require their own antivirus and internet security programs. 11. Using the internet browser access the router (see router instructions) by typing in the IP address in the browser go bar. 12. Enable the routers wifi 13. on computers that You want to access the router’s wifi, boot up and run their wifi wizard to find the router 14. If you want to network the wifi computer you have to do the same from step 1 above to it.

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I think you need a wireless bridge if the MFC 620CF only has a wired LAN. See the link for a suitable device.

well u can wirelessly do anything but the question is???? Is your brother s printer wirelessly ready/compatible nevertheless u can add a bluetooth connection to it but thats another story....

Hello, (ANS) NOTE: You can only print wirelessly to a wireless enabled printer, which is NOT quite the same thing as a printer that can be connected to a conventional cabled (wired) network. **If you look it might be possible to add a conventional network card to your multi-function printer. But this is for networked printing or TCP/IP printing. **YES! you can now buy wireless printers and they are NOT expensive either. **I don t know if its now possible to add a wireless network card or adapter to a conventional printer like yours. But if you could then that would be your ideal solution to the problem. You might have more success by contacting the printers makers and actually just ask them, can I make my printer a wireless printer and if yes! whats required? a quick phone call or email to the technical support people would get you the answer I m sure. Kind Regards Ivan computer veteran, MCSE trained.