Brother printer hl 2270dw troubleshooting guide

It wouldnвЂ™t be fair to say that there is something wrong with the printer. That also explains why the printer immediately started to work again when we returned our Airport Extreme router to the network. All of the other routers set an IP range of 192.168.1.xxx which the printer could never connect to.

Moving from an Airport n router to an Airport ac router was an easy switch because they both use the same IP range, so the printer was able to get its previously assigned address. You may recall that we initially used an Airport Extreme Base Station (read our review here) as our router, which by default, set an IP range of 10.0.1.xxx. As a result, when we changed the router, the printerвЂ™s NIC was not able to accept the new IP address assigned to it. Even the initial set-up requires the use of a web based administration panel and that вЂњhard codesвЂќ the assigned IP address to the printerвЂ™s network interface card (вЂњNICвЂќ).

These printers do not have any kind of built-in control panel or display so there is no way for the user to interact with the settings. Brother HL-2270DW Wireless IssueДЄfter doing some additional troubleshooting and research, we determined that this issue applies, not only to the Brother HL-2270DW but to all of the similar style Brother Laser Printers in this series. Initially we thought the problem was with the router but after having it happen multiple times we conceded that the problem must lie with the printer. If you have been following our reviews on Wi-Fi routers (read them here), you know that one constant has been our inability to get our Brother HL-2270DW Laser Printer to join the network after we changed to the new router.

Brother printer hl 2270dw troubleshooting guide