It's a waiting day

[susandennis]

I waited all morning for the hot water heater guy. The building manager was not too crisp on the schedule. I knew the minute I started lunch, he'd show up and sure enough that did it. He's a nice guy, the plumber, and very chatty. Also fine. He's now drained my old heater and taken it away while he also gets the new one.

Meanwhile it's now 12:30. I'm guessing the internet guy who's window is 1-3, will be here at 3.

I had a hilarious time with the printer today. My printer is about a year old. It can be connected via ethernet to network, ethernet to local, wifi to everything or USB to computer. I have no network. I do have an 18 month old Windows 10 laptop who refused all connections of any kind. I'm sure that if I were more familiar with Windows 10, I could have figured it out but I'm not. And I sure couldn't.

The computer said the printer was too old for USB 3 connection (which I don't believe). And it has no USB 2 ports. Ethernet cable printer/computer - not recognized by computer. My router is a mesh router so no network without internet. Wifi signal from neighbor not strong enough for printer.

I have 2 pages I want to print but, clearly, that ain't happening until the internet is back.

Back to putzing around.

Comments

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

The printer may not support USB 3 even if it isn't too old, or the issue there may be that while the printer supports it, the cable you're using is too old.

The computer wouldn't normally have to have a separate USB 2 port. USB 3/2/1.1/1 all use the same connectors and USB 3 ports are normally backwards compatible with USB 2 devices. I can't swear that that is true for your computer, but I've never found any computer that it wasn't true for. (USB C is different though.)

[susandennis]

Yeah turns out there are no USB 2 ports on the computer but your theory about the cable is probably spot on. I'm sure it's very old. I should also check the printer specs to see if that USB 3 thing is real or just Windows' imagination.