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Router Firewall rules sonicwall ubiquiti edgerouter

I'm new to firewall / routers and wonder if you can help.

I have 1 win 7 PC behind a ubiquiti edgerouter.  The lan subnet is 192.168.1.0/24.  I can log into that router

and 1 win 7 pc behind a sonicwall. THat lan subnet is 192.168.100.0/24.  The sonicwall is managed by others

Both routers are connected on their wan ports to a comcast router / modem.  also plugged into the comcast router / modem is an HP officejet printer.  That subnet is 10.1.10.0/24

Both PCs are set up to print to the hp printer with a static IP of 10.1.10.45 (so both have to go through their own router to get to the printer).

Print jobs sent from PC A through the sonicwall print immediately.
Print jobs sent from PC B through the edgerouter take about 10 seconds to start printing.

Is there anything I need to do on the edgerouter to speed up it sending the job to the printer across its WAN port?
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I would first PING the printer from PC A and B, respectively, and obverse the latency differences.

secondly, i would check the printer's drivers on A and B, make sure the exact same version is installed on both computers and runnig in the same mode and on the same port/procotol etc.

the third step would be checking if any congestion on the Ubiquti subnet. workstation numbers and processor load on Ubiquti can be two factors to consider and observe.
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thanks.  there's 1 pc on each network so traffic isn't the issue : )

drivers - where would you check the drivers like you would in device manager? (printers aren't in device manager - at least I didn't see).  In device manager it has rev. details. in printer properties, it just has the name of the driver, right?

both win 7 machines are new / likely have similar drivers.

So to get out of the ubiquiti network vs. the sonicwall network, there' s no routing table / something in the firewall to tell it where to look for that 10.1.10.0/24 subnet? the both know that 'this LAN is 192.168.x.0/24, so if that IP is not in that subnet, send it out the wan port?

(both have the printer set up to use the tcp/ip port of the printer's static IP).
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