Unless you don't have Wi-Fi, because there is only one computer in the house and, thankfully, none of the other appliances are internet able.

I didn't even have to use a cable to start. I put in my internet connection details in the install process and it recognised it and I was in business.

Took about half a minute.

With all the smart-phones & tablets around these days I would think most people have a home WIFI network.

We live in a townhouse complex and our phones pick up a dozen or so with varying signal strengths.

 

Unbelievably one of them is unsecured and we can connect to it. Even tho its signal strength is a bit lower than our own.

Sometimes when we arrive back home after being out our phones will connect up to it automatically before our own and we don't even realise it unless we check.

 

Whoever they are they really need to get their security settings fixed up.

Another reason not to have a home Wi-fi.

 

As I said, one computer, one phone (smart, but I never use more than 20% of my limit), why would I want Wifi just to connect a printer? And I doubt I'm alone.

c'mon dave - wi fi is a way of life these days.

 

'I don't understand any of it, but all good - I've got teenagers LOL

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   a member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woollen mills, which they believed was threatening their jobs (1811–16).

    

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USB cables generally are not supplied - even back in ~2002. I know, because I purchased an epson printer back then... had to go back to the shop to buy one (now I have heap of the cables here.. hah). Some print manufacturers will include it - depending on the model.