HP2650 wireless printer

[piasabird]

I just purchased an HP2650 wireless printer/scanner. The cost was $39.88. I dont print much stuff, but when you need a printer/scanner you really need it. I finally got it to connect to the network. I was using 5g and it only worked on 2g 24??

I guess it is ok for what I want to do. My router supports both 5g and 2g. It would be nice if it could bridge the two so I could connect My computer to 5G and my printer to 2G. I will have to try that and see how it works. What do you think?

 

[Muadib]

Maybe it's me, but I don't find an HP 2650 printer.

 

[corkyg]

The closest one at that price I could find was the HP2652 AIO wireless printer. They are part of the HP2600 series.

 

[piasabird]

2652 is the right Number. Purchased at Wal-mart.

Yeah that is the right model number. It is White. It is strange because it has no real manual but the technical info is hidden in the printer memory and you press the "!" button and it prints out papers of documentation depending on what lights are lit up. You also have to use an APP from HP called the HP Smart APP that makes it work. You can set up the wireless by connecting to USB.

The printer will not work on a 5G Network. My modem has both a 2G mode and a 5G mode. My ISP here in the mid-west (Illinois) is Spectrum which use to be called Charter Communications. I live in southern Illinois across the Mississippi river from St Louis, MO.

 

[corkyg]

You can also download HP2652 documentation from HP:

https://support.hp.com/us-en/produc...rinter-series/12319824/model/15787933/manuals

 

[jhansman]

Not surprised you couldn't get it to join your 5gHz network; my now dead Canon MG5220 (which cost me nearly $200 when I purchased it) could only see my 2.4gHz. It's amusing to me that these companies practically give the home printers away now, knowing they can stick us with hefty ink prices down the road. Hope you enjoy your HP.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Count yourself lucky, if your printer even does WPA2-PSK over 2.4Ghz. My Brother printer/scanner/AIO inkjet, forget what model number, but it's a few years old, has both ethernet, and wireless. Wireless is a pain, though, because you have to use the touchscreen to select the SSID, then enter the password. For any decent-length password, it's ... cumbersome. Ethernet is much preferable. I learned the hard way, that if I set WPA2-PSK in my router, and not WPA/WPA2-PSK, it won't connect.

So I use ethernet, as I don't want to degrade the security of my wifi network. Have a mesh network currently setup, and the printer wired to a mesh node.