My brother printer shows offline and I have to reboot my TP link C2600 to resolve

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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Hi I have LEDE 17.01.4 installed on my TP link C2600 and I noticed sometimes my brother printer (connected via WIFI) shows offline, and I have to reboot my router to resolve, ie, after rebooting, the printer becomes online and I can print.

It took me some time to try this solution, ie, I have tried to reconnect the printer by re-entering the WIFI password, re-installing its driver, etc, none worked, and finally I simply rebooted the router and it worked.

Any idea why?

Thanks.

Edit: never had such issue with stock firmware.

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Assign a static IP address to the printer and set the lease time to infinite.

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Thanks!
I set static IP address under Network - DHCP and DNS - Static Leases.
Do I need to set Network - Hostnames also?

I hope it resolves the issue.

Thanks again.

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You can, but it's not required.

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Unfortunately setting static IP did not resolve the issue.
I powered on the printer this morning and it shows offline, I restarted the router and the printer became online.

What else to do?

Thanks.

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In the printer's web interface...

  1. Did you also set up the static IP in the WiFi section?

  2. Obtain IP address set to manual?

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Thanks! I was not aware about that.
I checked the printer IP address and it is indeed different from the one I assigned. I changed its IP.
Will see how it goes.
Thanks again!

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Also, as mentioned above, check that the option to get an IP address is set to manual.