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Question posted by beckbarbara2000 on May 17th, 2011

When I Added More Than One Computer To The Mg8120, It Started Dropping The Route

MG8120 wireless connection to computers was fine. but when i added more than one printer, it kept dropping the connection, saying there was a synch problem, printer was busy etc

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