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They must have had tons of calls like this before. THANK YOU. Sad thing, before I figured this out, I spoke with 2 people at D-Link's technical support; we spent easily two hours. My PC and laptops didn't do that, and the DP-311U wasn't smart enough either.
Although I'm not a computer novice, this unit was hard to install. Of course, the manual says mothing about this either. But neither one suggested the cross-over cable. While the green LAN (Ethernet) light came on when plugged into the router or DSL modem, it didn't work when plugged directly into my PC or laptop.
Hence I needed the cross-over cable (just for the one-time setup). Amazing how they waste time and money. Someone here wrote that in such case you need a "crossover" ethernet cable (or adapter). I learned that routers have the smarts to figure our what type of unit is plugged in, and automatically assign transmit and receive signals to the proper pins.
NO WIZARD. I changed the DP-311U's default IP address in the PSadmin program and BAM. It's fast, reliable and can be easily velcro-ed to the side.
I'm using a Netgear WGR614v6 which is set to be a DHCP server. Works first try. The list of available IP addresses missed the default 192.168.0.10 so the computer could not recognize it.
The server works great on my HP 2200. I tried a bunch of things to get it to work, but in the end it was something simple. The morale of the story, if you're running a DHCP server, check the list of IP addresses.
Downside, it's got to be the single most difficult piece of hardware I've ever had to setup. Anyway, I followed the instructions to the letter and after setting my network IP address back to normal, the box would cease to work.
I guess I should have done more research Wouldn't work with my HP K80.
PS Admin converts the wireless SSID to ALL CAPS where as my wireless network name has mixed case. I could not get the wireless portion to connect for a while. Hope this helps. Talking directly to the 311U, via a web browser, I was able to set the SSID correctly and get m'self up and running. While searching for a solution, this site was at the top of the list so I decided to post my fix here. It seems that when the 311U is configured using the ancient-looking PS Admin utility, it has a small bug/feature.
Changing the IP Address manually and re assigning the new IP Address is very difficult. I bought the product 2 weeks before and I have a thought this will work with all printers but not. Because of this product I spend almost 8 hrs to solve other wireless network issues.If you have enough time then it will entertain you. And it cause problem for other wireless divices (Mouse,Keyboard,Wireless web camera and External wireless hard disk). D Link technical support is very bad I called at least 10 times to find my printer is compatible or not. User manual is not complete so configuration is very difficult.
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