Well, I don’t have the time for it either.
The thing with WiFi is you’re damned if you do (provide a router) and you’re
damned if you don’t.
>From the customer’s perspective, our Internet service is worse than Frontier,
>because his printer doesn’t work with our “modem”.
From: TJ Trout
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2015 1:18 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] UPnP question
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
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.
