I got a problem with my Lexmark S305 printer, loosing connection to my WNDR3700, sort of.
Sort of, because it's still listed in the attached devices, that tells me that the router didn't forget the printer, so I guess that the Lexmark printer has a problem, sort of sleeping to deep... But read on, I can force it, trough the router, to wake up with out touching the printer.
You should also know that after set up or power up, it all starts out working perfect. Then the printer goes to sleep and if no one prints anything for more then an hour or so, I can't print from it again. To get it to connect again, I have to pull the power from the printer and reconnect it. An other option is from the WNDR3700 in the advanced wireless tap, just click apply in the bottom. I think that make the router power cycle the wireless radio and some how it reconnects and start working again. I cant seem to figure out if the problem is in the Router or printer end. Since I can do things in both ends to make it reconnect...
One guy in the WNDR3700 forums said the following:
After a specified time every wifi device changes it's security key automatically (known as 'key renewal'). This is to keep the wifi connection secure. In some routers one can change the time ,measured in seconds, until the key renewal will occur. The default time is often 3600 seconds, on my Dlink DIR-655 I could change this. Unfortunately the WNDR3700 does not offer this option. So after this time the router wants to renew the WPA encryption. It seems the Lexmark Pro901 is not able to to this while in standby. Once this key renewal has failed it won't connect afterwards. I don't know if this is an error with the router or the Lexmark printer.
It seems like he could be right, and that I have the same problem with my Lexmark S305. But who is at fault here? I imagine that both company's is going to point fingers at the other, not doing anything to fix the problem.
What do you think? Also is anyone in here using the WNDR3700 with wifi printers and does it work as it should, as in when you press print, it prints, even if you haven't been printing for a month?
Thanks Kasper
Sort of, because it's still listed in the attached devices, that tells me that the router didn't forget the printer, so I guess that the Lexmark printer has a problem, sort of sleeping to deep... But read on, I can force it, trough the router, to wake up with out touching the printer.
You should also know that after set up or power up, it all starts out working perfect. Then the printer goes to sleep and if no one prints anything for more then an hour or so, I can't print from it again. To get it to connect again, I have to pull the power from the printer and reconnect it. An other option is from the WNDR3700 in the advanced wireless tap, just click apply in the bottom. I think that make the router power cycle the wireless radio and some how it reconnects and start working again. I cant seem to figure out if the problem is in the Router or printer end. Since I can do things in both ends to make it reconnect...
One guy in the WNDR3700 forums said the following:
After a specified time every wifi device changes it's security key automatically (known as 'key renewal'). This is to keep the wifi connection secure. In some routers one can change the time ,measured in seconds, until the key renewal will occur. The default time is often 3600 seconds, on my Dlink DIR-655 I could change this. Unfortunately the WNDR3700 does not offer this option. So after this time the router wants to renew the WPA encryption. It seems the Lexmark Pro901 is not able to to this while in standby. Once this key renewal has failed it won't connect afterwards. I don't know if this is an error with the router or the Lexmark printer.
It seems like he could be right, and that I have the same problem with my Lexmark S305. But who is at fault here? I imagine that both company's is going to point fingers at the other, not doing anything to fix the problem.
What do you think? Also is anyone in here using the WNDR3700 with wifi printers and does it work as it should, as in when you press print, it prints, even if you haven't been printing for a month?
Thanks Kasper