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I recently upgraded the APs on my network using the WAX630 and I am now having a problem with Wake On Lan (WOL) messages reaching the Wi-Fi attached printer. The printer works via Wi-Fi after it reboots - it will print documents from my computer. However after the printer goes to sleep it can't be woken up by WOL requests - printing from the same computer that worked before no longer works. This was not a problem before I changed the APs.
Have you checked the Product data sheet before buying? or the seller did not provide info? Since it is not supported it will not be available on the manual.
Wireless access points don't show WoL as a feature on a spec sheet because these devices indeed do not support WoL to wake up devices from power-saving states such as standby (S3) or hibernation (S4).for what makes up the "host" on an access point.
To send a broadcast packet from a wireless or a wired computer to a Wi-Fi printer, a bridge like a AP does not do any WoL, it's simple packet forwarding - because of the Wi-Fi printer must be up and associated to the access point anyway, being able to receive a ping, a WoL-like (broadcast) frame, being able to be detected by SSDP, by WSD, by NetBios frame ... [the L2 must be kept up anyway] - modern systems like Windows 1x, MacOS, ... are constantly discovering the presence of such a device being in UPnP SSDP, resp. Bonjour for MacOS, ...
Would you mind to let us know what kind of printer make model, and printer firmware as well as what kind of computer and driver is in use which appears not to "find" or wake-up that printer.
