We have a couple of HP Officejet pro 8720 printers that may be interfering with general wifi connectivity in their area. I tried disabling wifi in the printer menu but discovered, via WiFi Analyzer, that it doesn't really "disable" wifi, it just stops broadcasting an SSID signal. The radio is still active.
My Google Fu failed and I don't see a reasonably common way to completely disable the function short of turning off the printer. Anyone here have a super-sekrit method of killing the radio functionality (short of clipping wires, which I've considered)?
Brad
OK, didn't find HP's usual "maintenance and service guide", found the regular user guide.
Were you connecting to your in house wireless, or letting it do it's own thing?
If you're printing USB, connect the printer through wired ethernet, and connect to the printer's internal configuration web page. There will (likely) be more options working thorugh that. Do any firmware updates that are available.
I would suggest if you can't actually disable it, set the channel to something two or three (at least) channels away from what your house wifi is using. or, if you were letting HP's wifi just do its own thing, instead join it to the house wifi.