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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1945082" data-attributes="member: 396914">I'll make the font larger for you [USER=16298]@macgig[/USER]. The printer wifi will connect to the same local area network that the Ethernet from your Mac connects to, so the Mac should see the printer just fine, even with the Mac WiFi turned off. As for speed, the limits on file transfers through the Internet are probably more based on other factors than your individual Mac speed. Have a read here for the essentials:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-ethernet/[/URL]Note particularly that it says:In addition, once any device in the Local Network slows down the net, the entire network slows to the lowest speed. That's how the tech works. Think of it as a one-lane road with a speed limit of 60. If everybody is going 60, that's fine, but if an vehicle slows to 30, then everybody after that is also slowed to 30.So, bottom line, you don't need WiFi on for the printer and Mac to connect as long as they are both in the same named network and that if you leave WiFi on in the Mac, I don't think you will see any degradation in speed, as many other things affect it. If you suspect WiFi on is slowing your Mac, use Speedtest.net to compare. Note, however, that a confounding factor will be your Internet provider speeds. Again, the "best you can get" will be no better than the slowest in any of all of the links.  </blockquote>