Problem with printer and laptop wireless connectio...

Hi In the last 2 months we have found that the only way we can get the wireless printer and the laptop to connect to the wireless hub is by switching off the hub and restarting it. The printer will then print and the laptop connect to the internet but once either is switched off again the only way we can get the hub to 'talk' to them is by switching off the hub. I have been in touch with BT advisors this morning but not really got anywhere. The chap was going to change the BT frequency but we have a Hub 3 so I don't think this is relevant. Apparently we have got a good broadband speed. I am not technical in any way but logic dictates it must be a hub problem. Has anyone had similar problems - or any ideas. The main tower PC has not had problems so far but we have noticed that short videos have been so slow that at times they freeze. Again this is very recent. Many thanks.

Hi Bob - not sure where Neener went nor if his issue was sorted out, but I'm stuck in the same place. The manual for the printer tells me to select a WLAN network and put the printer in SES/WPS/AAOS mode - which I did. Then it, in theory, went looking wirelessly for my Airporter Extreme. It thought for 3 minutes and then came back with "No Access Point". The AE is working fine, but the printer can't find it.
And another weird issue is that when I installed the drivers from the CD that came with the printer, it doesn't show up anywhere on my computer - nor does it show up as an option to add the printer. It's just non-existent.
Here are the details....
Printer: Brother HL-3070cl
MacbookPro: 10.6.7
Router: Airport Extreme
Wireless mode: Create a wireless network
Wireless security: WPA2 Personal (is that ok even if this is for a business?)
Connect using: ethernet
Configure IPv4: Using DHCP
Any help you can offer me would be SO appreciated. I'm pulling my hair out and have been trying to figure this out for nearly 2 hours now!!
THanks,
K

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