Wireless sounblaster- wireless mu

do i need a router or an access point. i currently have a wireless USB adapter but it cannot connect to the receiver. do i need a wireless router or access point and can i use these with an existing wired network.

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  • HP AIO Remote shows wireless printer offline when it is online and can print to it.

    HP AIO Remote installed on my Windows 8.1 Yoga 2 shows my wireless printer is offline, when it is online and I can print to it wirelessly.  How can I get it to recognize my wireless printer is online wirelessly?  AIO Remote will only recognize the printer is online when the USB in connected to the Yoga 2.

    Hi rpmcintyre,
    Thank you for the additional information.  I apologize for misunderstanding. I just want to confirm that the HP AiO app that you downloaded onto your Windows 8.1 computer is showing your printer as offline when you are able to print wirelessly to the printer.
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    If the above documents don’t assist you, would you please let me know which make/model/product number of HP printer that you have? How Do I Find My Model Number or Product Number?
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  • New C310 - Wireless working FAIL - Printer's wireless network seems to be dead

    Product: HP Photosmart Premium C310
    OS: Windows Vista 64 bit and Windows 7 64 Bit
    Error: Wireless working: FAIL
    Changes: No changes since this is the first install of this printer ever
    Description:
    I've just unpacked my new C310 as a replacement for my older HP Inktjet 3845.
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    Great info and troubleshooting, thanks!
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  • New FiOS GigE Wireless 'N' Router has slowed our wireless speed to a crawl...need help!

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    Thanks for the help, Hubrisnxs.
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    Nexus7 (N7) took a min or so to connect to wifi when I got home.  When it did, speed said 65Mbps.  So I ran speedtest.net and got 27/20.  Shortly after that I tried again but it was hesitating.  I checked the speed and it was down to 5Mbps.  Brought it upstairs to router and pc, and eventually it was back to 65.  Ran speed test a few more times with similar results.  I did notice that the connection would intermittently come and go.  Not sure why.  Looking at the wifi section  on my N7, it says our network is out of range and the N7 is 2' from the router.  Every now and then my network will go to the top of the list and it'll say it's obtaining ip address, then secured with wpa/wpa2 psk and it's locked in.  So I hit the connect button and it's out of range again.  Of course, while I was typing it decided to connect after 10-15 mins of trying/nothing.  Says, signal strength excellent, 52 Mbps.  Spoke too soon.  It's off again.  Crap!  Back on again but speed was 19, now 5.
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    SendBufferSize set to [261360]
    running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 34.66Mb/s
    running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 84.24Mb/s
    ------ Client System Details ------
    OS data: Name = Windows XP, Architecture = x86, Version = 5.1
    Java data: Vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc., Version = 1.6.0_37
    ------ Web100 Detailed Analysis ------
    Client Receive Window detected at 1045440 bytes.
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    RFC 896 Nagle Algorithm: ON
    RFC 3168 Explicit Congestion Notification: OFF
    RFC 1323 Time Stamping: OFF
    RFC 1323 Window Scaling: ON
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    Information: Network Address Translation (NAT) box is modifying the Client's IP address
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    -bill

  • New Airport Extreme restarts/disconnects/boots all devices if specific MacBook joins wirelessly...?

    Preface:
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    After setting up my AEBS, I kept getting knocked off at random, frequent intervals. It would disappear from all my devices simultaneously--no network connections and nothing showing in Airport Utility. I tweaked every setting imaginable five times over. No luck. Looked into networks around me and fiddled with channels etc. No luck. At first, I would have to go unplug and replug the AEBS to get it to show back up. Eventually I managed to get it to where it would just "reset" more or less and come back on in about 30-45 seconds. The light on the router will blink green once, and then two seconds later go solid amber for about 10-15 seconds, and then blink amber for another 10 or so. Then it's back like nothing happened.
    I think that I finally narrowed it down today to what is triggering it more or less. I noticed it was fine with everything connected WITHOUT any security. When I added the WPA2 security back on, it was doing it soon after the older Macbook connected, right after "Installed unicast CCMP key for supplicant 3c:d0:f8:8e:31:b5". I could connect the Macbook through ethernet and be fine. If it did connect without the issue, it would do it soon after when the router would run that "Installed unicast CCMP" process again in a mere matter of minutes.
    I decided that maybe having old OSX Leopard wasn't working well, so I finally upgraded it to Snow Leopard to see if maybe it would help. No luck. Exact same issue. I disabled Airport on it, and since then I'm going on 5 hours of no issues, but why is this computer causing the AEBS to freak out when it worked 100% with my Airport Express for years???
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    Dec 07 11:39:30          Severity:5          Initialized (firmware 7.6).
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    Dec 07 11:39:37          Severity:5          Deauthenticating with station ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (reserved 2).
    Dec 07 11:39:37          Severity:5          Rotated CCMP group key.
    Dec 07 11:39:38          Severity:5          Deauthenticating with station ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (reserved 2).
    Dec 07 11:39:38          Severity:5          Rotated CCMP group key.
    Dec 07 11:39:41          Severity:5          Associated with station 00:1b:63:00:46:94
    Dec 07 11:39:41          Severity:5          Installed unicast CCMP key for supplicant 00:1b:63:00:46:94
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    Dec 07 11:39:42          Severity:5          Clock synchronized to network time server time.apple.com (adjusted +1 seconds).
    Dec 07 11:39:43          Severity:5          (WAN) link state is Up.
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    Dec 07 11:39:48          Severity:5          Connection accepted from [fe80::226:4aff:fe10:2c66%bridge0]:60946.
    Dec 07 11:39:49          Severity:5          Connection accepted from [fe80::226:4aff:fe10:2c66%bridge0]:60947.
    Dec 07 11:39:57          Severity:5          Associated with station 3c:d0:f8:8e:31:b5
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    Dec 07 11:39:58          Severity:5          Connection accepted from [fe80::226:4aff:fe10:2c66%bridge0]:60949.
    Dec 07 11:39:59          Severity:5          Connection accepted from [fe80::226:4aff:fe10:2c66%bridge0]:60950.
    Dec 07 11:39:59          Severity:5          Connection accepted from [fe80::226:4aff:fe10:2c66%bridge0]:60951.
    Dec 07 11:40:14          Severity:5          Associated with station 00:18:e7:83:45:ed
    Dec 07 11:40:14          Severity:5          Installed unicast CCMP key for supplicant 00:18:e7:83:45:ed
    Dec 07 11:40:29          Severity:5          Deauthenticating with station ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (reserved 3).
    Dec 07 11:40:29          Severity:5          Deauthenticating with station ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (reserved 2).
    Dec 07 11:40:35          Severity:5          Connection accepted from [fe80::226:4aff:fe10:2c66%bridge0]:60954.
    Dec 07 11:40:35          Severity:5          Connection accepted from [fe80::226:4aff:fe10:2c66%bridge0]:60955.
    Dec 07 11:40:36          Severity:5          Connection accepted from [fe80::226:4aff:fe10:2c66%bridge0]:60956.
    Dec 07 11:40:44          Severity:5          Associated with station a4:67:06:60:67:41
    Dec 07 11:40:44          Severity:5          Associated with station 00:26:bb:00:cc:a2
    Dec 07 11:40:49          Severity:5          Associated with station 3c:d0:f8:8e:31:b5
    Dec 07 11:42:14          Severity:5          Associated with station 00:1b:63:00:46:94
    Dec 07 11:43:39          Severity:5          Deauthenticating with station ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (reserved 3).
    Dec 07 11:43:39          Severity:5          Deauthenticating with station ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (reserved 2).
    Dec 07 11:43:39          Severity:5          Rotated CCMP group key.
    Dec 07 11:43:41          Severity:5          Connection accepted from [fe80::226:4aff:fe10:2c66%bridge0]:60962.
    Dec 07 11:43:45          Severity:5          Connection accepted from [fe80::226:4aff:fe10:2c66%bridge0]:60964.
    Dec 07 11:43:45          Severity:5          Connection accepted from [fe80::226:4aff:fe10:2c66%bridge0]:60963.
    Dec 07 11:43:48          Severity:5          Associated with station 00:18:e7:83:45:ed
    Dec 07 11:43:48          Severity:5          Installed unicast CCMP key for supplicant 00:18:e7:83:45:ed
    Dec 07 11:44:24          Severity:5          Associated with station 00:26:bb:00:cc:a2
    Dec 07 11:44:24          Severity:5          Installed unicast CCMP key for supplicant 00:26:bb:00:cc:a2
    Dec 07 11:44:40          Severity:5          Associated with station 3c:d0:f8:8e:31:b5
    Dec 07 11:44:40          Severity:5          Installed unicast CCMP key for supplicant 3c:d0:f8:8e:31:b5

    Hi,
    I have roughly the same issue.  I have a new 5th Generation (I had a 4th Generation that seemed to do the same thing) that will reboot for no apparant reason.  I have a 1st Generation Time Capsule as the main wireless access point, then a 2nd generation Extreme extending, and the 5th generation as another extension.  I also have an Express extending to the top floor.  All my other devices work great, but the new 5th generation will just reboot over and over.  Seems to be every 5 - 10 minutes.  I have it setup in the middle of my house, with some devices connected to it via ethernet cable.  I used to have the Express in that location connected to a switch for my devices, and never had any issues.  My log looks similar, basically nothing useful. 

  • New Officejet 4500 will not connect wirelessly

    We just got a new Officejet 4500 that I began to set up last night.  First I followed the recommended setup path for setting it up wirelessly: USB connection to my MacBook Pro, install the software, use the setup wizard, etc.  It chugged away for a while and eventually I got back a bunch of errors "Failed to retrieve IP".
    I have a wireless hub provided by my ISP which I have set up with WEP (no Mac filtering, no special firewall within the home network).  After googling around for a while I decided to switch to WPA personal.  I got my MacBook working with that, then tried the printer wireless setup wizard again.  No go, same errors.
    Next I tried setting it up (still with WPA) directly on the printer using it's menus.  This also didn't work.  The printer printed out a Wireless Network Test Report which looked like this in the Diagnostics Summary:
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    Wireless Working: PASS
    Network Name (SSID) Found: PASS
    Security: PASS
    Printer Settings Consistent with Wireless Router Settings: PASS
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    Downlink count: 2
    Channel: Not Run
    I also switch back to WEP and reran the setup via the printer menus, and failed the same way and got the exact same diagnostic summary.
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    Hello-
    If you have a Officejet 4500 G510g , the printer is not wireless. You can use an ehternet cable and do a network install. That way any device that is wireless can use it as long as your on the same network.
    The OJ 4500 G510n is wireless.
    Specs :
    http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01954185&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en...
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  • New MBP - wireless/internet access networking problem - a summary!

    Greetings!
    New MBP here, with all the trimmings (MacOS X 10.4.10 - Safari 3 Beta). New also to the Apple/MAC world
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    Communications issues seem to still prevail: I am hanging out at several VERY HELPFUL forums (AppleDiscussionForum, MacRumorsForums, etc...) and the same issues keep popping up. Im my case, same as all above reported, with a few additional points, as follows:
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    2. Quite often, accessing a site will proceed somehow OK, and then things will get stuck twd the end, as if some buffer somewhere gets overloaded??? Of course, as elsewhere reported, same can often happen with com getting stuck right over the "www" part of the URL!
    3. AND, of course, the often reported "NO connection to the Internet", but computer shows good signal level and connection otherwise.
    4. Strangely enough, seems that the Airport Extreme wifi card sort of "warms up the the internet" as one proceeds to start using it. It eventually picks up on a network, and often "improves" its connection over time!
    5. Built in Airport Extreme seems to not exhibit up all immediately surrounding networks. Sensitivity issue?? iStumbler does.
    6. iStumbler permanently posts noise level of 9% regardless of how close to my wireless router/broadband modem I am. Anyone uses iStumbler to monitor network traffic?
    This is getting longuish: I just want to get over all those p*ant issues and get into putting my a/v stuff together!!
    - Roger T
    Thanks for just reading all this!. I am not sure it is all fixable (back to the Win "features" terminology, really meaning "bugs"??)

    Thanks, BDaqua. This support forum is quite well stocked: I have been perusing all its nooks and cranies!
    On the www.dslreports.com - All things Mac - forum, I spotted a couple of mentions of the following type of infromation:
    link: »www.hardmac.com/news/2007-07-27/#7039
    - The first TechNote provides information concerning the Airport problem affecting the MBP Santa Rosa (but also other Mac Intel). When used on battery, the wireless connection drops and one can even experience kernel panic. Apple Centers are asked not to exchange affected notebook as this is due to a unidentified bug in the Atheros driver, and should be fixed in the future with a simple Airport system update. So for the moment, unfortunate users are asked to directly power their notebook when using wireless network, or using Ethernet connection when running on battery... in other words, turn your notebook into a desktop
    to forum · permalink
    I am wondering if you and folks on this close-to-Apple forum know anything about this. At least, we could just await remedy instead of messing around endlessly looking for solutions and... pondering as to whether it was a wise thing to purchase an expensive machine which happens to have trouble communicating online. After all, seems that the Mac folks are prone to spend MORE time online uploading/downloading music and videos instead of my being normally doing with the rest of my (Win) computers, i.e. work on customer lists, correspondence, inventories, accounting, data bases, etc....
    So, seems to me we do have a pb and Apple might just save a few $$$ on silly ads and get to work on com instead. if nothing else to avoid the appearance of further - admittedly rather funny - ad-spoofs!
    So back to your further inquiry. I run a wireless network from a HughesNet satellite modem, thru a Linksys WRT54GL wireless router, into some nearby office LANed desktops and point of sale equipment, to another neighbouring facility via wireless bridge, and to my Mac laptop. Distance from the laptop to the router: 50 ft max.
    It all works surprizingly very well: up to 200kbps up and 1000 kbps down (in prime time, 150 up and 600 down). OK, my set up looks complex and incurring LOTS of activity. Actually, online activity is quite minimal and well scheduled - right now I am the only machine on the network online. Otherwise, our office processes online money wiring for customers among other things.
    I'll try your DNS server choice on the Mac settings first. Will report accordingly.
    Thanks for everything!
    - Roger T

  • Often lose wireless connection when using HDTV as monitor

    I have an unusual wireless networking problem when using my Samsung HDTV in my living room as a monitor for my MacBook (when watching Internet TV shows, for example). Frequently when I switch URLs, networking freezes, even though the connection appears strong, with the Airport symbol at the top of my screen showing all bars. To re-establish the wireless connection, I have to go through the process of re-joining my network through the “Join Other Network" option. The signal holds as long as I don’t try to change it, as in selecting another URL.
    I connect to my HDTV via HDMI cable, using a mini-DVI to HDMI adapter from my Macbook’s video-out port. The audio connection is a mini-plug from the Mac’s headphone out jack to stereo RCA plugs associated with the TV’s HDMI port.
    The wireless connection is through a Lynksys Wireless-G 2.4 Ghz, 54 Mpbs Broadband router.
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    I'd say this has nothing to do with your display. The problem will likely lie in either your router settings, network settings or a simple signal strength issue. Try first changing the broadcast channel on your router, and make sure all settings are correct for your desired network.

  • I want a new and more powerful (non-Apple) wireless router but I still want to use my existing Time Capsule to continue with my Time Machine backups and I still need the Time Capsule's Network Attached Storage (NAS) features and capabilities

    THE SHORTER STORY
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    THE FULL STORY
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