What's your detailed test topology? And please pay attention to the Ethernet cable to make sure it supports the full 1Gbps transmit speed.

As for the test setup, it's recommended to do as below:
Acer Travelmate )))60GHz((( AD7200 (WAN) ---(gigabit cable)--- PC
Then run iperf between Acer and the PC.

To make a comparison, it's recommended to do anothe test:
Acer Travelmate ---(gigabit cable)--- (LAN)AD7200(WAN) ---(gigabit cable)--- PC
Test the throughput between travelmate and PC through Iperf.

Just installed the AD7200 router over the weekend and am having a problem with the router recognizing the HP Color LaserJet Pro M252dw printer that worked previously with my ASUS router. Windows 10 recognizes the address 192.168.1.118 as the address of this printer, however when I login to AD7200, it does not show up. Printing a test page remain in the Printer queue. Any help would be appreciated.

May I know how do you connect the printer to AD7200, via an Ethernet cable or via a USB cable?
If it's via a USB cable, then you need to install the printer server utility on all your devices to share the printing.
http://www.tp-link.com/en/faq-745.html

meabarrett wrote

Just installed the AD7200 router over the weekend and am having a problem with the router recognizing the HP Color LaserJet Pro M252dw printer that worked previously with my ASUS router. Windows 10 recognizes the address 192.168.1.118 as the address of this printer, however when I login to AD7200, it does not show up. Printing a test page remain in the Printer queue. Any help would be appreciated.

ADMIN - if the discussion about printers needs to go any further, please move it to a separate thread so it is not mixed into the performance discussion and people can find it easier in the future. Thank you.

tplink wrote

What's your detailed test topology? And please pay attention to the Ethernet cable to make sure it supports the full 1Gbps transmit speed.

As for the test setup, it's recommended to do as below:
Acer Travelmate )))60GHz((( AD7200 (WAN) ---(gigabit cable)--- PC
Then run iperf between Acer and the PC.

To make a comparison, it's recommended to do anothe test:
Acer Travelmate ---(gigabit cable)--- (LAN)AD7200(WAN) ---(gigabit cable)--- PC
Test the throughput between travelmate and PC through Iperf.

Thank you for the suggestion. Your recommendations suggest using the WAN port for the PC connected directly to the router. I had been using the LAN port so that my test machines were all on the same subnet. At your suggestion, I configured the router with a static IP on the WAN and tried to repeat the test. Each time, the PC reported a lost network connection a few seconds into the test. Im sure this is a lack of understanding and experience on my part to properly configure the router for this configuration (I set a static IP on the router WAN and on the PC). If testing in a LAN-to-WAN versus LAN-to-LAN is important for achieving maximum performance, I would welcome suggestions on making that work.


I checked the cables and found that the one between the "primary" router and PC was not marked. I replaced it with the one that came with the Talon and retested. This had no consistent impact on the measured performance.

What did improve performance more than I expected is changing the PC to a slightly newer machine and changing from Ubunutu in a VM to a native Ubuntu install. In a limited retest it improved from the high 600Mbps range to the high 800Mbps range.

An Ethernet cable. After some research, I was able to reset the colored printer for Wi-Fi operations and was able to see the IP address that AD7200 picked - so that problem is resolved. I did try inserting another older printer (HP LaserJet 1320) into the USB port and installed the TP-LINK USB Printer Controller package which did display the correct printer but as of yet have not been able to print with it. I am checking out the HP drivers for further resolution. Thanks for the reply.