I have a Belkin Wireless G Plus MIMO ADSL2 router and an HP Officejet Pro L7780 wireless printer, running Vista SP1 Business - but I imagine the issue is common enough with different combos and OS. Documents often do not print because the printer has been assigned, say, address 192.168.2.2 whereas the computer printer software is looking for 192.168.2.3. (addresses vary within a small range .2 through .6). I can change the port address, to that which the printer itself tells me is the one the router has assigned it today, and print fine. But then my wife tries to print something from her computer - and I have to change the port address on hers, too. Bah!
What I can't seem to do is solve the problem by enabling 'Printer Pooling' and checking multiple ports/addresses on the computer printer software dialog, under 'sharing' - because that simply doesn't seem to work. Should it? Or is that for some other purpose?
The only other thing I can think of is to somehow force the router to always assign the same address to the printer. But I cannot seem to find how to do that via my router setup - probably because I don't know the terminology, which acronyms I should be looking for, and what settings to modify when I find this out. Or maybe it can't be done, anyway?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
David
What I can't seem to do is solve the problem by enabling 'Printer Pooling' and checking multiple ports/addresses on the computer printer software dialog, under 'sharing' - because that simply doesn't seem to work. Should it? Or is that for some other purpose?
The only other thing I can think of is to somehow force the router to always assign the same address to the printer. But I cannot seem to find how to do that via my router setup - probably because I don't know the terminology, which acronyms I should be looking for, and what settings to modify when I find this out. Or maybe it can't be done, anyway?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
David