Wireless printer woes...
I've spent hours trying to sort this. I like to think I know a) pretty much what I'm doing in these matters, or, b) if stuck, how to find the answer. Not this time...
Printer - HP3050a connected to home wireless network. Router - O2 Wireless Box V. The network connection to the printer (and the printers internet connection) are rock solid (I've assigned a static IP address via the printer - the ip address chosen is outside of the range used by the DHCP to assign to LAN devices, which it does dynamically).
The issue is that the computers on the network regularly lose connection to the printer. The ip address cannot be pinged successfully. The only way of curing this is rebooting the router but the connection sometimes only holds for maybe a few hours before being lost again.
I'm using mixed WPA - WPA2 security on the network, and there is no significant interference from neighbours on the wireless channel I'm using. I've tried disabling the firewall (Kaspersky 2012 / 2013) on the machines but this doesn't solve the issue.
Just to reiterate - the printer's network connection is solid, as are any devices joining the network. It's communication between the machines and printer thats the issue.