I don't think it'd be UPnP related - it wouldn't be used for printing
communications, and I doubt it would be used for device locating on the
network. Did you try turning WMM on/off at the MT? Latest firmware?

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:

> We recently switched a customer over from Frontier and everything is fine
> except printing from his computer to his Lexmark printer over WiFi takes
> forever, it was fine using the Frontier DSL modem for WiFi.  We supplied a
> Mikrotik RB951G-2HnD.  Note that printing isn't just a little bit slow, one
> page takes like 10 minutes.
>
> Everything looks fine in the WiFi stats and changing WiFi parameters has
> not made any difference.  Pinging this device from the Mikrotik, we get
> higher ping times and more variation than other devices, not sure if this
> is related.
>
> Since there does not seem to be a WiFi problem, I'm wondering if it could
> be some higher layer protocol problem, like the fact that we have UPnP
> disabled on the Mikrotik.  Could Lexmark be using UPnP between the computer
> driver and the printer?  If so, would it care if UPnP is enabled on the
> router?
>
> I really don't understand UPnP, other than to know I don't like it from a
> security standpoint.
>
>

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