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Hi All,

I bought a DPR-1260(Firmware 1.24) and I’m having issues. I gave it a static IP and my DI-624 sees it no problem but I can’t manage the print server unless it is hard wired into my network. I’ve used my laptops running XPPro and Vista to try and connect to it wirelessly but no joy.

The DPR-1260 would not connect to the router and the radio status stayed “Searching for AP” even though it sees the signal from the router. The DPR-1260 was set for “infrastructure” and both print server and router are in WPA security mode and AES on the router.

Since the DPR-1260 was looking for an access point I plugged a WBR-2310 into the DI-624 router gave it the same settings and enabled the Access Point Mode. The print server still just kept searching for an access point.

I finally changed the wireless mode on the DPR-1260 to Ad-hoc with no security and it connected and stayed connected to the WBR-2310 wirelessly but I still cannot see or manage the DPR-1260 on the network using the IP address. The ‘Friendly’ host name has never worked.

What am I missing? I don’t want to drag my printers down to the router and I really don’t want to disrupt the network and bring the router to the printers. The whole purpose of the print server was to simplify things.

Thanks.

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OK. I got it working last night and I thought I would post my solution in case anyone else is having the same problem. (By the number of views on this post, I would think so)

Three devices. All D-links:
1) DI-624 - wireless router
-Channel 6

2) WBR-2310 - wireless router set as dedicated Access Point
-Static IP
-Channel 2
-Super G mode disabled
-Security mode disabled

3) DPR-1260 – wireless print server
-Static IP
-SSID (Access Point)
-Infrastructure mode
-Super G disabled
-Security None

The access point (WBR-2310) is wired with an Ethernet cable to the router (DI-624), port 4 to port 4. The router has the print server as a static DHCP client. I told the print server to connect to the access point and, after it rebooted, it connected. I am now printing wirelessly. I can manage each device by IP. The host name has never worked.

It appears to be a problem with the security. As soon as I try to apply WAP or WAP2 security on the access point, the print server can’t connect even if the settings are identical. I’ll try turning the Super G on and have everything on the same channel and see what happens.

I suppose I could accomplish the same thing by removing the access point and taking all the security off the router but I’m unwilling to do that. I’ve put passwords on all the devices but someone could still attach to the access point if they knew enough.

If anyone has any advice, I’d be glad to hear it.