wireless printer driving me mad!

[KN]

hmmmm, thanks KHP.

1.  have been thinking about this and remembered that my router was disconnected whilst I did the uninstall and reinstall of printer drivers as the HP instructions told me to do that.

2. have just done the run, cmd, ipconfig stuff, and getting into the realms of stuff that I really don't understand; however the little black box that came up mentioned plenty of IP addresses, but also some references to "media disconnected".
Wonder if this is significant?

KN

[wildcamper]

kn, are you using wireless to connect your pc/laptop to the internet? or a cable?

[wildcamper]

you could also try doing this, "right click my computer, go to manage, go to device manager" looik to see if anything has a red x over it or a warning symbol, if you see a red x over printer, click on that and click on enable, but the "media disconnected" sounds like a wireless issue to me.

[KN]

Dear KHP

Have been doing a bit of research on both HP and BT websites/forums and discover large numbers of disgruntled printer owners who can't get their wireless printers to work with a BT HomeHub 2. 
The solutions look horribly complicated!
Beginning to feel that life is too short to spend hours fiddling with this, and I'll just plug in a cable when I want to print something!

thanks for your interest in this, much appreciated.

KN

[jksdelver]

Did you know like other routers you can increase the wireless output on the hub. Just done it at my daughters as my lap top was having difficulty finding the hub. Worked a treat. Think she just googled the key words and it showed the instructions. If you can't find them let me know and I will ask her. I have also done it on my Orange router as well.

[Redroger]

Does this apply to my situation? I have Virgin cable, but to avoid drilling a hole through the wall I connect to their modem wirelessly using a Netgear router. Sometimes it doesn't connect to Netgear, but to an unidentified network, of which so to speak I know nothing.

[jksdelver]

Always worth giving it a try I am sure there will be a way to increase the output.

[kiwihalfpint]

Sorry I couldn't be further help KN.   

Sometimes the big shot technicians will not think of the simple solution, I found that when I rang mine, and had one of the top techies ring me late at home, telling me what to do, unplugging the modem etc to setting up a new account

You could hear the embarrassment in his voice when I mentioned that the problem could be my ISP address.

Cheers
KHP

[Calverley Lad]

Redroger
Don't forget that if swopping from direct connection to modem to wireless router.
You a) have to switch modem off/on then b) switch on router (allowing 30sec or so) then switch on PC.
Router security itself is a different matter!
 Brian