Connecting Epson printers wirelessly to BT home hu...

Greetings
New to this forum.
I bought an Epson printer SX445W last April and tried to use it wirelessly. All went well for about three days, then the printer stopped communicating. Epson said it was the fault of the hub / router. I re-installed the printer, and it worked again, then stopped after two / three days. Eventually after much arguing with BT and Epson, I gave it up, and only used the printer with my desktop.
Recently I bought an additional printer, an Epson WF 3010 and had exactly the same problems. It works fine for a few days, then stops communicating. I've searched this forum and found many such problems, but only a few solutions, and those have not been relevant to my situation.
I would welcome some help with this
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I cannot see anything specific to that printer that would cause it to keep disconnecting.
The only two things which normally cause problems are:-
Wireless interference, or the home hub smart wireless changing channels, you are already looking into that.
Printer IP address changing due to the renewing of the DHCP lease.
This can be overcome by manually setting the printer to a fixed IP address, as I have described
here.
Important - help with printers
Looking at your printer manual, this can be done from the front panel.
See the text in bold, copied from this link.
http://support.epson-europe.com/onlineguides/en/wp3010_nwg/html/setpn_3.htm
IP address allocation setting:
Normally, the broadband router or access point will automatically allocate an IP address to the printer using the DHCP function. If your router (or access point) DHCP function is on, set the TCP/IP setting so that the printer acquires an IP address automatically.
To allocate a unique IP address to the printer, select manual setting, and enter the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway.
DNS server setting:
To specify the DNS server address, select the manual setting, and enter the addresses for the primary DNS server and secondary DNS server.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones.

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BDAqua wrote:
Do you mean like this instead of what I posted as an example?
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BDAqua wrote:
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BDAqua wrote:
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BDAqua wrote:
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