How To Connect Brother Printer To Wi-Fi network 2024

As any tech fan will know, when your technology works well, it can be a dream – but when things start to go south, the dream can quickly become a nightmare.

Printers, in particular, can be a sore spot. These are devices that seem to have their own mind, and will often point-blank refuse to co-operate or respond to your commands, regardless of how well you treat them, or how well you coax, plead or threaten them.

Connect Brother Printer to Network tends to be one of the most difficult challenges, but fortunately, we are on hand to try to minimize the stress, lighten the load, and get your printer hooked up in no time.

Before You Connect Your Brother Printer

Before you can successfully connect your Brother printer to the network, you will first need to locate the wireless network settings that are attached to your access point or wireless router.

There are two specific details that you will need to locate, and these include:

Network Name (this may also be referred to as “SSID” or “ESSID”)
Network Key (this may also be referred to as your “Security Key”, “Password” or the “Encryption Key”)

The Network name (or SSID) and Network Key (or Password) can be located on the side or the base of your access point, or your wireless router. You may have to check the specific documentation that came with your router or access point to discover exactly where this is.

It is important to note that you will not be able to source this information from Brother; the Network Password and Network name belong to your internet service, not your printer, and so you will need to access the manufacturer of your ruler, or your internet service provider if the details are not present on your router or access point.

Once you have located the network information for your access point or your wireless router, you can then start the process of connecting your printer to your Wi-Fi.

As a note, if you have an access point or wireless router that utilizes a WEP encryption using multiple WEP keys, you should take care to make a note of the first WEP key only.

Connecting Your Brother Printer To The Wireless Network

Once you have the information that you need, you can move on to connecting your printer to the network.

To start, you will need to use a power cord to plug your printer in and make sure it is switched on.

Then, head to the control panel on your machine, and press the “Menu” button. Use the arrow keys to scroll through the menu, pressing Up or Down to get to your destination, and continue to scroll until you reach “Network”. Then, hit “OK”.

Next, use the same Up and Down keys to scroll through the menu again until you reach “WLAN”.

When you get there, press “OK” – it should be noted that this option is not present on all Brother machines, and so it is worth doing a little extra research to see if this applies to you.

Following this, use the Up and Down keys to scroll a third time until you reach “Setup Wizard”. Once you find this, click “OK”.

Shortly after this, “WLAN Enable?” will appear on the control screen. Press “Yes” to select this, and enable the wireless network – this move will kick the wireless setup wizard into action.

The printer will start to search for your Wi-Fi network, presenting you with a list of possible Network Names (or SSIDS), to choose from.