How to connect Brother Printer to the Dlink Router?

Before setting up the Brother Printer or any Printer in your home, a user first has to connect his Brother Printer to the Dlink Router operating within the network. The purpose of connecting the Brother Printer to the home network is to conveniently perform the Printing actions from anywhere around your home where networks are available. A user could even use the different Printing application to ease his printing actions.

Before proceeding to connect your Brother Printer to a Dlink Router, a user must know that he is acquired with all the prerequisites that a user is required to successfully connect his Brother Printer to a router. If your Dlink Tether app is installed on your computer, then you are only a few steps away from connecting your Brother Printer to the Dlink router. Dlink Tether App is also convenient in downloading Brother Printer Drivers as the user with the help of this app can remotely update the Brother Printer Driver of his Printer Machine. The user also doesn’t have to connect to dlinkrouter.local window to bring any changed in the network status of the Printer Machine. 

Make sure that the following prerequisites or requirements are met before connecting Brother Printer to the Dlink router.

1. The wireless Brother Printer you are about to connect must support the WPA/WPA 2 encryption wireless standard.
2. Your Dlink Router must be in proper condition to smooth out the operation commanded by the user in a Brother Printer through his computer or a mobile device.
3. The computer which you are going to use for printing actions must be using the Dlink Tether app. The app should also be updated to allow users to enjoy all the features and characteristics within the Dlink App.
4. Make sure that your Brother Printer is about 3 to 10 feet away from the Dlink router you are using. While setting up the connection between your Dlink Router and Brother Printer make sure you are keeping your Printer at an eligible distance.
5.  The software of your Brother Printer must be installed within the computer along with the updated Brother Printer Drivers. You also can take the help of the documentation that came along with the accessories of your Brother Printer to get the instruction for installing the software or downloading Brother Printer Drivers into your device.

Steps to connect Brother Printer Machine to the Dlink Router

1. Take the Power Cord of your Brother Printer and connect it to the nearest Power Switch. Make sure that the cable is not stretched, it may bring a failure in the connection.
2. Turn on the Power button and your Brother Printer Machine immediately gets switched on.
3.  Locate the Menu button on the control panel of your Brother Print. As soon as you find it, Press it.
4. You can use the Up or Down arrow keys to select the available network then, press the OK button.
5. A user can utilize the same Up or Down arrow keys to select the WLAN network. After selecting this type of network, press the OK button.
6. Now, select the Setup Wizard for your Brother Printer Machine, Press the OK button.
7. When WLAN gets enabled in your network, select the Yes tab to enable the network. Click on the Yes tab, it will automatically begin the Setup Wizard for your Brother Printer Machin.
8. Your Printer starts searching for the available network. As soon as all the networks get searched, it will display the list of the available networks with its SSID Name. Choose the Network Name of your Dlink Router and click on it.
9. Enter down the Wi-Fi password, you noted down before the Brother Printer offline Setup process. You have to use Up and down arrow keys to select the SSID Name of your Brother Printer.
10. If the user wants to apply an authentication process, he will be requiring a security password to enter the network. Type down the Network Key that you want to assign as a password and press OK  to apply the settings.
11. If the user wants to create an Open system with nearby users that could access the network without any need for the network key, he can choose the None tab and click the Next tab to get to the next step.
12. Brother Printer Machine starts connecting to the selected Wireless network you selected in a former step.
13. In case, the Brother Printer will get successfully connected, the LCD screen of your Printer Machine will display the Connection status.
14. Unfortunately, if the connection gets failed, the Brother Printer machine shows the failed status along with the error code on your LCD screen. You can also see the Printer report to check the error code of the failure in the Printing process.