One of my iPads would not print to my HP printer. I tried to post this under the general heading in this threadthat someone was having a problem printing from their iPad, but those replies could not be augmented with my solution.
After a number of trying different solutions I found that Norton VPN:Secure VPN-IPSec will block the signal to the printer.
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Original Title: iPad not printing
PorkyPig33 wrote:
One of my iPads would not print to my HP printer.
After a number of trying different solutions I found that Norton VPN:Secure VPN-IPSec will block the signal to the printer.
When using a VPN, the behaviour that you observe is fully expected. Here's why...
Unless your VPN connection is explicitly configured to support Split Tunnelling, you will not be able to access any local network resources while the VPN is active. For this reason you will be unable to access your local network printer, while the VPN is active.
While your VPN is active, all network traffic will be directed to the VPN Gateway - in this case, the VPN Gateway used by your Norton product, completely bypassing local network resources. With VPN inactive, local network resources - and other local network client devices should become accessible.
PorkyPig33 wrote:
One of my iPads would not print to my HP printer. I tried to post this under the general heading in this threadthat someone was having a problem printing from their iPad, but those replies could not be augmented with my solution.
After a number of trying different solutions I found that Norton VPN:Secure VPN-IPSec will block the signal to the printer.
You bet it will. Your Norton VPN also cuts your throughput to about 25% of your raw internet speed, and does nothing else useful except enrich Norton.
Here are more details→VPN: What you need to know - Apple Community
"Coffee shop" VPNs are an excellent way to ensure your network activities and related data are properly collected and tracked and personally identified and available for logging and resale by the VPN vendor, though these collection tools do add substantial overhead for negligible security benefits. "Coffee shop" VPNs badly solve a problem that hasn't existed for a decade or so, but badly solve it in a way perfect for data collection.
One of the better-known anti-malware packages for macOS was caught collecting and reselling personally-identified metadata and web-purchasing data, and was fined. Fined not for collecting and reselling the data, but for not disclosing the metadata collection somewhere in the fine print of the end-user software license agreement. An agreement we all read fully and understand, of course.
Some of the "no logging" VPN services were caught logging a while back too, when the "non-existent" logs were found, unprotected, on the internet.
Want privacy? Enable iCloud+ Private Relay, with ODoH support.
Want security? The existing network connections are already end-to-end encrypted. Apple has been requiring that of app store apps for a while now, too.
Want geo-shifting for testing a website or a content delivery network or other such? Maybe use a "coffee shop" VPN for that, but they'll quite possibly be collecting your activities. Or you can run your own VPN server, such as Algo.
*Above does not apply to VPNs used to remotely access the internal network of an affiliated organization.
Yep, that will happen. Along with the countless other network problems that are experienced with VPN use.
Norton VPN blocks iPad printing to HP printer
