My Home Network Is A Mess (Comcast wifi/printer issues)

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Ok, so I have one of the all-in-one Arris routers from Comcast/Xfinity. I've disabled the wifi on it because the wifi signal on them is garbage and doesn't reach through our house. Our whole house is wired for the internet, so I have all 4 connections on the Comast router full - and on the 4th one I've connected a hub so I could get all other rooms to connect through that.

My desktop is connected to the landline, as are a few other items (ps3/apple tv) - but everything else runs on wifi. In my living room I connected my Asus RTAC68P to the landline. I have to connect it to the landline through the WAN connection (the other connections are what my apple tv/ps3 are plugged in to). So, my wifi works great - I get a strong signal wherever I go in the house. My main issue now lies within my printing. I cannot get anything to print on my HP Envy 110 wireless printer. I've tried connecting it direct to the pc (that worked for about a day), and I've tried connecting through wireless (desktop won't print on it, but things like iphone/ipad will). I've updated all the drivers, run diagnostics/everything and I'm at my wits end. Does anybody have any suggestions as to why my printer won't print?
 
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You need to change the operation mode of the router to an access point. Give your router a static IP address on the LAN page. Then on the Network map page click the link next to "Operation Mode". Change to Access Point.

That will disable the DHCP server on the router and your main router will now be the DHCP server for wired and wireless. That should take care of your printing problems. I recommend giving printers and other static devices on the network a static IP address.
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You need to change the operation mode of the router to an access point. Give your router a static IP address on the LAN page. Then on the Network map page click the link next to "Operation Mode". Change to Access Point.

That will disable the DHCP server on the router and your main router will now be the DHCP server for wired and wireless. That should take care of your printing problems. I recommend giving printers and other static devices on the network a static IP address.
 
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ok another stupid question. since my router is connected to the landline via the WAN port, do i need to set the ip there?

the lan tab just has the standard ip as 192.168.1.1 and the basic subnet mask.

the wan is set as automatic, but can change to static ip, pptp, lt2p, or pppoe. there's places to input the ip address, subnet mask, default gateway, an dns servers if i want.

it's also set to enable all of wan, nat and upnp.
 
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i was able to switch it to an access point - only problem is now i can't access the settings. i'm not sure what the ip address was changed to. the default on my router is 10.0.0.1...i use the fing app on my iphone and it shows the address as 10.0.0.0/24 - what is this???
 
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You can always hold the reset button and factory reset it. No harm, no foul.

Disconnect the Asus from the main router. Use a wired connection to the Asus (it still has a DHCP server enabled after the factory reset). Login to the default IP address. Set the LAN IP address to 10.0.0.250 (I like numbers above 200 for statics). Toggle the operation mode. Reboot the Asus. Connect the Asus to your main router (start with a LAN port) but it shouldn't matter. Disconnect your PC from the Asus wired connection an then re-connect (this is just to get you a new 10.0.0.x address). Try your browser with 10.0.0.250. If you can login to the Asus you are good to go. Reset your wireless SSID and password.
 
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