Wireless Printer not connecting to PC's

aron searle

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May 19, 2011
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I have a Brother printer, I set it up, installed software and it works fine for a while, then it randomly stops working wirelessly, it happened a few times, I found it sleep mode would "lose" the connection. I would just uninstall and re-install and it would work again, now it randomly lost connection and won't show up on computers

When I go into the modem it is shown as connected, the printer says it is connected to the WLAN fine, but when I try go into "add printers" the computers (one XP one Win 7) just can't see it.

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The that's probably as good as it gets till they do another driver update.
I've had similar problems with my Fuji Xerox color laser. Can't wake it up at times. Have to turn it off then back on. One update helped a bit but it still does it sometimes. I just put up with it.