What is considered best practice to connect a Brother DCP1610W to the network so I can print when connected to either my main router (GL-MT6000) or dumb access point AX3000T.
The Brother only works with 2,4G and seemingly a lower level of encryption than I would want to use - I had this issue with my previous set up as initially it would not connect until I reduced the encryption level. I also set a fixed IP.
Currently have 4 different SSId's for the 2.4G radios of which 2 are guest.
Make a new wifi access point, my guess from year of manufacture - WPA2+AES (note the deauth injection - better go wired) with random long ap name and password.
No immediate danger gaving it bonjour-browsable in main subnet.
Thanks for the suggestion but I would like to stay with the equipment as described and plugging in another piece of kit is not really an option. Most of the time the printer is not even switched on........
This is orthogonal to the question at hand (the DCP1610W only comes with USB2 and wifi), but the wifi modules commonly used in printers tend to be very low-end, with even worse means of configuration, if you can (you obviously can't here) prefer using a wired ethernet connection to attach a printer to your network (p910nd and USB might be another option, but here not really either (because of the sanner features)).