Lost connection to my wireless router

My HP printer has been working for 2 years and all of a sudden I can't print. I had someone set up my printer back in the say so I don't know much. I am not tech savy but hope to acquire some help. I have printed the wireless network test results page and it says under the Network section - network name (ssid) found - FAIL. The solutions are1) check that your wireless router is powered on - yes I did that and it is2) check that your hp printer network name (SSID) matches your wireless routers network name (SSID) exactly. I don't know how to do this at all3) if do not match, run the Wireless Setup Wizard to configure your HP printer.I guess once I figure out if the SSID's match then I can run the Setup Wizard - which I'm not sure how to do that either. Any assistance is greatly appreciated as I am trying to do this on my own without having a tech come out to do this for me, which will cost money. I don't know if a storm or what made the printer lose it's connection. I have never had this happen before. Thank you.

Temporarily remove all security off your SSID. Now see if you can find and connect to your unsecured SSID. Are you successful? If yes, go back and put on WPA2-AES with a password and try again.

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This is bizarre. I have had my HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 for about 6 months. It has generally worked fine, and we have used it wirelessly only. But now it refuses to connect to the router. It can FIND the router, and it can find other networks in the area, but it won't connect to the router. I ran the Wireless Network Test, and the results say:
Wireless On - Pass // Wireless Working - Pass //
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So it recommends solution as follows: "1 If MAC Address filtering is enabled, and you would like to keep it enabled, you must add the Mac address of your printer to the list of permitted devices for your router before continuing."
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Also, before today, this was never a problem. HELP!
Thanks....
If you are interested, here's more detail and background.
Before today, the only problem we have had is that frequently our Apple laptop (OS X 10.6) has trouble connecting to the printer. This has been odd because the printer is connected to the network, and so is the laptop, but the laptop can't find the printer - it thinks the printer is "offline" (even though it's not). Usually, if I wait a while, it will find the printer, and it will resolve itself work fine. If not, we sometimes have found that it can fix itself if you restart the laptop -- restarting the printer does not make a difference. In fact, I did exactly that today, and it resolved itself. And I printed. Fine, right?
But then I wanted to do more printing, and the problem of the laptop not finding the printer came up again, so I decided to really "get to the bottom of this." I don't remember exactly what I did, but somehow I was persuaded by the online help, that the correct solution would be to go into my System Preferences / Print and Fax, and click on the "-", which de-installs the printer, with the idea of re-installing the printer. But then when I tried to re-install the printer, it could not find the printer. Ugh! Wierdly, it found an 8600 Scanner, but not an 8600 printers. After installing and de-installing the 8600 scanner a few times, I eventually deinstalled everything, and I decided to start from scratch. I got my HP disk, and installed all the software again from the beginning (even though it was already there), and then it looked for my printer, but couldn't find it. So then I got a USB cord, and plugged that in.
So, now I have a situation where I do have a working printer via the USB cord, but no wireless connection at all. In particular, since the Office Jet Pro 8600 won't connect to the router, I don't know what else to do. My Apple MacBook pro is 2 feet away from the printer, and it is connected to the router just fine (as is my blackberry), and I have never before had a problem connecting to the wireless router by the printer.
Any suggestions?

There are two things that can trip the mac filtering test to fail: actual MAC address filtering setup (sounds like this is not the case) and using wireless channel 6 or automatic for wireless channel in the wireless network settings (in the router). Since it does show failed for MAC filtering and you do not use this option, try changing the wireless channel in the router to 1 or 11. Those two channels provide the best compatibility with printers due to less interference. Almost everything defaults to auto or 6 for the channel and this causes a lot of interference. This change should not affect anything at all. To do this, you may need to contact the router manufacturer as the process differs from router to router.
What brand and model is the router?
Has anything in the network settings changed at all?
What version is the Mac OS X? There may be additional steps to take as it sounds like there are two separate issues involved and this could be revisited later.
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How to connect a E1200 wireless router to a machine tool network for wireless communications

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Then when you set your laptop's wireless adapter to whatever IP network you want to connect to.
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The networks show up, but since I haven't been able to connect, I don't get the "forget this network" option.
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In Finder, open the Go menu, press and hold the option key, 'Library' will appear on the menu, click and scroll to Application Support, open the folder and scroll to 'AddressBook-v22.abcddb'. Click on the file and press Command-I. Towards the bottom you'll see Permissions, tell me what they are please.

I just purchased an Apple TV. I have a pc running windows 7. It is connected to a router and the router is connected to a wireless router. I connect my iPhone, iPad and apple tv to wireless network but do not know how to put the pc on the wifi network

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I don't mean to be facetious but sometimes the simplest things are overlooked. To connect to your library you have to have the computer where the iTunes library is located running and with iTunes open. It also needs to be on the same network. My network is dual band and works with either stream but a friend of mine does not. He has to set the computer and the Apple TV to the same band. Hope this helps.

When you can use Airplay without the need to connect to a wireless router?

My question / request is, when you can use Airplay without the need to connect to a wireless router? Able to connect your iphone / ipod touch / ipad to your Apple TV directly without a wifi router, something like a "Airplay Direct"

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Satellite Pro L300-1B9 cannot connect to my Wireless router

Hi!
I have activated the wireless nw on SAT L300 PRO 1B9 - but with many fight...
First I needed to find the switch to enable (I never though that it have... :-) ).
Then I needed to deinstall Atheros in Windows, and set the flags on (enable) in the Windows driver.
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Trying to connect IPAD to wireless router

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My Ipod Touch looses connectivity to my wireless router often, any idea why?

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I have an IPOD Touch MC540LL that loses connectivity to my wireless router very often. Even if I'm sitting next to the router. Any Idea why?

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Hi everyone, I have an old g4 desktop it runs on 0S 10.3. I want to get connected to my wireless router but I am getting a bit confused on what I need to buy to do this. I have looked on ebay at pci cards, usb cards

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To build on what Tesserax says, not all USB sticks will work on Panther, but here is one that does:
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Some of the older G4 desktops like my PowerMac 3,6 only take the original AirPort card, which is different from the newer machines that take the newer AirPort Extreme card. Both are available if you hunt for them, but modern WPA-2 encryption is not supported on the original AirPort card, so it will not be able to join your network if it has this encryption. The newer AirPort Extreme airport card does support WPA-2 encryption, as does the NewerTech USB AirPort stick. If your G4 takes the older card, you cannot plug in the newer AirPort Extreme card. I have not looked lately, but I believe the sockets themselves are different. In any event, the NewerTech USB stick is cheaper than an AirPort card.
If you don't already have Mactracker, you can download it for free here:
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You can look up your Mac on it and see which AirPort card it has. You can also check out what upgrades are available.
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Will a desktop connected to a wireless router via network cable be able to use a wireless printer?

My computer is a Dell runing XP home edition. This computer is connected via a network cable to the wireless router.
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if the printer is connected to the router wired, then the router is the hub, so you should just need to install the driver for the printer in the machine that is not working.
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Mac mini issue:lost connectivity with the wireless keyboard

I lost connectivity with the wireless keyboard and I can't unlock the lock screen.What can i do?

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Connecting to a wireless router

I have an older wireless router, the DLink DI-714P+ connected to a DSL modem, and would like my Satellite Pro L300D's wireless LAN to connect through it to the Internet. I do not see any instructions how to use the Atheros 802.11b/g wireless LAN on the laptop.
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Any help hooking up my laptop to my wireless router so that it can access the Internet through the router would be most welcome. Thanks !
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eldiener wrote:
I have an older wireless router, the DLink DI-714P+ connected to a DSL modem, and would like my Satellite Pro L300D's wireless LAN to connect through it to the Internet. I do not see any instructions how to use the Atheros 802.11b/g wireless LAN on the laptop.
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Any help hooking up my laptop to my wireless router so that it can access the Internet through the router would be most welcome. Thanks !
Hi,
Satellite Pro L300D series is wifi capable . Here are the things that you need to do to connect to a wireless router.
. Check if Wireless Switch is on ( for this system the on / off switch is located infront of the system aligned to the Audio jack )
. Click Start then go to Connect to
. Look for the name of your Router and Double click it.
Once it says connected. Try opening up Internet Explorer.
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