wish I had enough time and energy to help clients troubleshoot mundane things like this! (= On Jul 25, 2015 11:00 AM, "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
> I originally had WMM enabled, I disabled it but that didn’t help. > FW is 6.30.1. > > I wonder if I’m having a Fast Path problem when devices try to communicate > across the wireless LAN. I could disable Fast Path on the bridge, but I’m > not sure this traffic even hits the bridge if it’s going from one wireless > client to another. > > I am used to problems setting up wireless printers, but usually it works > once you get it to connect. > > > *From:* Colin Stanners <cstann...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Saturday, July 25, 2015 12:19 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] UPnP question > > 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. >> >> >
