Wireless Connection Lost

OfficeJet Pro 8500 Wireless Losing wireless connection resulting in all panel buttons freezing. Must unplug to reboot & all is fine for a day or so. Wireless connection is Excellent to 2 laptops. No security used. network name not published

Do I understand that the SSID is not broadcast? If so, that is a problem. When the printer wakes up, it looks for the SSID (even if you entered it manually for the first time) and if it does not find the network, it goes back to sleep.
There are several myths about wireless network security. One is that not broadcasting SSID offers some degree of security. Read more here.
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Wireless connection lost between my router and printer (hp officejet 4620)

My hp officejet 4620 printer has been working fine but now the wireless connection has been lost and I can't get the wireless connection back. The blue light for the wifi flashes blue. I can't get the connection back between the router and the printer because my wifi is actually working fine with my laptop. Any suggestions about what i can do to get the connection back so I can print again?
Is it something I need to do on the printer screen or laptop to fix the problem?

Have you powered off everything and power up again? Power off printer and router. Power on router and wait 2 mins. Power up printer and see if it connects to your SSID.
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Wireless connection lost upon wake from sleep

I recently joined the 21st century and purchased broadband internet for my home. I am connecting via wireless ethernet using an original Airport card and flying-saucer type base station. All I did was connect the base station to the cable modem with an ethernet cable, plug it in, and restart my eMac. The network showed up right away and I was connected. Unfortunately, after my Mac went to sleep and I woke it up, not only was there not a connection, but there was no sign of the network.
Airport status showed it was still on, but in the spot where the networks show there was nothing. Restarting corrected the problem, but I assume only until it sleeps again. I can change the settings to make it monitor-only sleep, but I would like a more permanent solution.
What might help to fix the problem, and was there something I needed to do besides just turn my machine off and on to set up this network?
Thanks.

If you pose this problem over in the Airport or Tiger networking forums, you'll find you've stumbled into a morass of conflicting reports. There have been a disturbing number of reports of Airport connections lost in Tiger after wake from system sleep, usually not reconnected until after a restart. Some people have some success checking the box to put the Airport icon in the menubar ans using that to turn Airport off, wait a few minutes, and turn it back on, yet others have reported that only works part of the time and others report it doesn't work at all. Some have reported improvement after downloading and running the full OS X Update Combo 10.4.10 (PPC) on top of an OS updated via Software Update. And the large majority of Airport users never report any problems at all using Tiger. It really sounds like there's no one cause and no one fix.
There is a workaround: don't let the Mac go into system sleep. Use the Energy Saver system preference to set system sleep to Never, uncheck the 'put hard drives to sleep when possible' box, and set the display-only sleep to say 20 minutes. If the eMac is in a bedroom and the sleepers are sensitive to fan noise or power LED lights, that will be a problem, but likely less aggravating than losing your broadband connection.

BEFW11S4 wireless connection lost after reboot / sleeping

I am using the linksys wireless router BEFW11S4 version 4, firmware version 1.5, to connnect two winXP computers, one a desktop (wired) and one a laptop (wireless).
The wireless connection was created using the EasyLink Advisor software (support.linksys.com). The wireless connection made by this software to my laptop has no signal strength problems. A wired connection to my laptop also has no problems.
However, if a wireless connection is made, it is broken when my laptop is restarted or sleeps (power saving mode). The sysTray indicates a wireless connection that has "limited or no connectivity". I cannot browse the internet. The EasyLink advisor automatically detects a problem and prompts ot repair it. Though after a few steps the EasyLink Advisor indicates that a "wireless connection failed to be made", the sysTray shows a healthy connection, and it becomes possible to browse at this point.
I'm hoping to make a connection that doesn't need to be re-established every time I leave my computer. Has anyone experienced a similar problem?

Carrot, thanks very much for your message. I tried updating the "firmware" -- is that what you meant by drivers?
By following the instructions at http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linksys.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=4030&lid=7771778881B05,
I upgraded the firmware which involved performing a factory reset on the router, and re-establishing the network using the EasyLink Advisor.
All of the steps were carried out easily according to the instructions and there were no hitches or exceptions. The wireless connection made was strong and usable. At this time I added my second (desktop) computer which has a wired connection, by following the "add another computer" wizard in EasyLink Advisor.
This completed the re-setup of my network with new firmware.
I then restarted my wireless laptop, and, unfortunately, the connection was lost, as usual.
any other suggestions?
Thanks again!

Wireless connection lost after awakened from sleep.

I have the 2 month old 17" 2.16Ghz Macbook Pro Core Duo. Whenever I put the unit to sleep the wireless connection is lost when awakened. The Airport preferences pane shows a full strength signal and a base station ID but I cannot load a webpage, get or send emails, and ftp connections are broken. If I plug in an ethernet cable All is well again.
The ony way to restore the wireless connection is to either restart OR logout and log back in.
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THANKS

Do this.
Open network preference panel
Select Airport on Show: drop-down menu
Select Airport tab
Select Peferred networks as the Join by default: item
Delete your network
Close preference panel
Reopen Network panel
Return to Join by default: and add your network
Press Apply now.
That should do it

Wireless connection lost in few seconds [solved]

Hi everyone
just come back to Arch after one year. The community grown fast and support seems to be fantastic.
Anyway, I have problems with my wireless connection. I installed the system from cd including ipw2200 driver (the right one for my card).
I followed the entire wiki guide on wireless and it seems to work, wpa_supplicant can associate to the access point and dhcpcd gets an address (valid). I can also ping external addresses (so DNS work too). After 5 seconds, anyhow, if I ping someone I got the message "network is unreachable".
Under windows the AP works fine. it has WPA-TKIP encription.
Thanks everyone
Last edited by manu83 (2009-08-24 09:53:47)

I just managed to solve the problem.
Actually, this problem is only for encripted connections. with open ones it works fine. I just made an attempt on an open router and it works. Then downloaded KDE and WICD and now it works fine also on encripted connections. Maybe WICD uses other modules to manage encription?
@statix: I ran wpa_supplicant manually and there were no errors, even after a long time. Quite strange. Could it be a wpa_supplicant bug? or a dhcpcd one?
@djzapi: kernel 2.6.30. Intel PCI wireless card. 32 bit system.

Wireless connection lost after macbook pro sleeps for more than 15 minutes

It's annoying. I have a brand new macbookpro 3.06Ghz 17" hi-res screen running OS-X 10.6.3 and the wireless connection keeps dropping after the computer is either turned off or sleeping for more than 15 minutes.
My router is a linksys wireless G, has dd-wrt software in it which is very powerful. When I release or renew the DHCP at the router, the mackbook connects to the wireless network, no problem.
What configuration can be done at the macbook as to not have it time-out airport wireless connections unless I renew/release DHCP at the router? This is an annoyance beyond the limits of anyone's patience.... Thanks in advance for any help!

Well, since nobody answered this post I decided to try a bunch of things and I believe I came to a solution:
1 - Make airport the first connection under System Preferences->Network
2 - In the advanced window:
- Under AirPort: Keep only one network name on the list (the one you use all the time)
- Select 'remember networks this computer has joined' and deselect all other boxes
- Take note of the Airport ID (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx) and put it in your router's MAC address list. I do this because I only allow connections to my router from mac IDs that are on the list I create. In my case, I have my macbook pro and my PS3 system. If you don't know how to edit the MAC list in your router, do some research. It's pretty easy.
- Under TCP/IP: Select "Using DHCP" on the IPv4 drop box
- Select "Off" for IPV6 drop box
- Under DNS, after you connect at least once, you should see (grayed out) your router's IP address on the left box and the domain on the right side box.
Finally, under "Ethernet" you should see your Mac address there, the configure option should be set to Automatically and MTU as standard (1500).
Press OK and then press "Apply" and lock that screen by clicking on the padlock at the bottom left. BTW on the top of this screen Location should be "Automatic" - if not, select it and apply.
Done! Your wireless should connect quickly after the computer is turned on or waken up from sleep state. This assumes you configured your router correctly (mac addresses, frequencies, etc).
Good Luck to all who try this - at least I have not have any more dropped wireless connections.
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Wireless connection lost after some time ?

The wireless internet connection works just fine when browsing safari or the appworld, no problem at all...After locking the ipad and using it a few mins/hours later, I usually lose the internet connection. It says im connected but safari/appworld wont load unless I turn off the wireless connection or renew lease in the options.
Can someone please tell me why is this happening ?? Its been happening since I got the ipad, so an app cant be the cause ..
Please help !

The router firmware has the latest version ... I dont think its something with the router, because I use my laptop wirelessly as well and I dont have such problems. My friend has an iPad 1 and he doesnt have the same problem as mine either ..
Is there an app that can fix this ??? I thought it might be an email problem because my older Android phone usually lose connection when trying to fetch emails, so I activated PUSH function on the ipad, but that didnt fix the problem
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Wireless Connection lost after sleep: iMac 27-inch

When my iMac goes into sleep mode, or logs off after pre-determined time, it loses the wireless connection to the router. I then have to go to the upper right of the screen, select my router from the list of available routers, and force a connection.
Has anybody else experienced the inability to maintain persistent wireless connections?
Thanks!

I had the same problem for weeks with my new 27" iMac. I tried resetting p-ram, adjusting network settings, throwing out preferences for network settings - - - everything! Nothing worked. I final called Apple support and they told me to unplug EVERYTHING from the Mac, including power, wait 30 seconds, and reboot.
Works fine now.
Hope that helps!

Satellite L450D-13x - wireless connection lost and won't register at all

I have a Satellite L450D-13X ,I have been able to use the wireless connection until today when it stopped working. No matter what I do it says the wireless device is disabled.
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Try to rollback OS to earlier time using system restore tool. Maybe some Microsoft update has screwed up WLAN functionality. Very often WLAN driver is listed as option for update.
Try this as first step.
Try also to restart your router.

When wireless connection lost during surfing, firefox will not access the internet after connection is restored.

While surfing the net on my laptop (windows vista home premium, all updates current), if the wireless internet connection is lost while a page is loading, firefox will NOT connect to any websites at all when the connection is restored. Also, if I try to shut down firefox, it will appear to close, but if I try to re-start it again, it will tell me "firefox is already running", even though it's not. I try to go to windows file manager and shut down firefox.exe manually, but even with that it will not shut down, it's like it's stuck in some sort of "loop". The only way to recocile it is to completely re-boot the system, which takes forever, because firefox.exe doesn't want to shut down even in re-boot.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== Always with firefox. And firefox is up to date ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C)

No it does not work, uninstalled both McAfee and Firefox and only reinstalled Firefox alone, still did not work. I have now both reinstalled and am still unable to connect

Wireless connection lost after standby !

My ibook G4 has a strange problem. Everytime, I restart the computer, the wireless internet works fine. However, just after every short standby or disconnection, the internet connection always got lost.
The airport says it is connected, while the network status says it is connected to my network, but airport cannot find the IP address and cannot connect to internet.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Are there other (stronger) wireless networks in your area (when you click on the airport icon, in that case you should see a list of wireless networks in the drop down list)?.
You may want to switch your airport settings to always connect to yours instead of 'connect automatically'.
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HP Officejet Pro X476dw MFP Wireless Connection Lost

Setup
HP Officejet Pro X476dw MFP (hereafter MFP) connected wirelessly to Apple Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS). Two MacBook Pros (MBP) also connected wirelessly to AEBS. MFP has been assigned a fixed IP address which has been removed from the AEBS's DHCP range.
Problem
Sometimes (but not always) when attempting to print while the MFP is sleeping (but blue wireless light is still on) MFP is not visible to the Macs and therefore they cannot print to it. The HP Utility also fails to find the printer, displaying only the information that seems to be stored in Bonjour. Once, after an attempt to print resulted in the printer not being found, I tried to turn the MFP off. Until I canceled the print operation it wouldn't turn off.
I used to have an HP Officejet 6500 with wireless and can recall neither having to assign it a fixed IP address nor experiencing these problems.
Any thoughts? Do I have a problem that Bonjour and IP are both on? Is the MFP failing to respond to a wakeup signal from the AEBS?

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Wireless connection lost with hp deskjet 3050 all in one j610 series

wireless printer was set up and working for three months, went to print recently and wireless light flashing no longer connected to wireless, have tried everything can't get printer to connect to wireless and work, hp deskjet 3050 J610 series

Please describe your wireless network. What router? What kind of encryption? Did anything change regarding the router?
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OfficeJet 8600, offline wireless connection lost;

i have an officejet 8600 that ive been having about a year its connected to my pc wirelessly, i am running windows 7 on pc, every so often my pc will say that my printer is offline but the printer says it is still connected to the network i have printed the Network Configuration Page from the printer and everything is the same as before...IP Address same...I read some answers to previous questions that said to go into advanced settings and change the IP Settings from Automatic to Manual...I've done that with no result....I have also restarted Router, Printer, and PC....I have even disconnected power to all 3 and then reconnected with same problem....can someone please help me....
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Let's set a static IP address in this manner for the printer:
- Print a Network Config Page from the front of the printer. Note the printer's IP address.
- Type that IP address into a browser to reveal the printer's internal settings.
- Choose the Networking tab, then Wireless along the left side, then the IPv4 tab.
- On this screen you want to set a Manual IP. You need to set an IP address outside the range that the router automatically sets (called the DHCP range). If you do not know the range, change the last set of numbers (those after the last '.') to 250
- Use 255.255.255.0 for the subnet (unless you know it is different, if so, use that)
- Enter your router's IP (on the Network Config Page) for the gateway.
- Enter 8.8.8.8 for the first DNS and 8.8.4.4 for the second DNS. This is Google DNS. You can choose another external DNS if you wish.
- Click 'Apply'.
Now, shut down the router and printer, start the router, wait, then start the printer.
After this you may need to redo 'Add a Printer' using the new IP address.
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