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What makes a win7 computer blind to a router ?
I have a www connected win7 it uses a TC LINK ROUTER. It cant find my linksys router on IP address 192.168.1.102 .
I would like to unplug from the TC link and plug into the linksys and print at times. But the www win7 computer is blind to the linksys router and the network printer that is connected to it.
I suppose I could change the Ip addresses on the linksys router and printer to be on the 169.254.2xx.xx
and try to assign them a new number with very last IP number to be different.
Or Maybe someone can shed light on my mind as to what I could do to my windows 7 that uses the TC-Link router (169.254) so It will also see the printer and linksys router.
To explain these pictures- The picture on the right is what happens when I unplug the www win7 machine from its router and plug it into the lynksys router.... something makes it so it wont see the router or the printer. The picture on the left is a machine that will connect to the lynksys router probably because I have never connected it to the TC link router and surfed the web with it.
What happens to a win 7 s configuration that makes it so it wont see a different router. ?
I have read about IP addresses and networking a lot but its all just gobbly gook to me.
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Last edited by DonM123; 19 Jun 2018 at 09:26. Reason: change title!