wireless printing is very slow

My wireless printing setup is very slow.
-- Printing a single page from my wireless laptakes several minutes.
After selecting file-print it taked about a minute to open the print
dialogue box. Then another minute or so to actually print.
-- Opening the printer properties window from my wireless laptop takes
about 1 minute
-- Printing from the printer's host computer is basically instant
-- Opening the printer properties from the printer host computer is
instant.

-- host computer = Win XP Home
-- laptop = Vista Home Premium; Dell Inspiron 1520; intel draft-n
wireless card
-- router = RangeMax NEXT Wireless-N Router Gigabit Edition, WNR854T,
configured for multimode wireless
-- printer = canon S900 with the latest XP and Vista Drivers just
downloaded from canon last night...I think.I loaded the S900's Vista
add on driver in to the XP machine, then I added the printer to my
Vista machine across the wireless network. I assume that picked up
the Vista add on.

Any idea how to speed up my wireless printing? Thank you.

bighead

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 04:06:50 -0800 (PST), bighead <> wrote:

>My wireless printing setup is very slow.
>-- Printing a single page from my wireless laptakes several minutes.
>After selecting file-print it taked about a minute to open the print
>dialogue box. Then another minute or so to actually print.
>-- Opening the printer properties window from my wireless laptop takes
>about 1 minute
>-- Printing from the printer's host computer is basically instant
>-- Opening the printer properties from the printer host computer is
>instant.
>
>-- host computer = Win XP Home
>-- laptop = Vista Home Premium; Dell Inspiron 1520; intel draft-n
>wireless card
>-- router = RangeMax NEXT Wireless-N Router Gigabit Edition, WNR854T,
>configured for multimode wireless
>-- printer = canon S900 with the latest XP and Vista Drivers just
>downloaded from canon last night...I think.I loaded the S900's Vista
>add on driver in to the XP machine, then I added the printer to my
>Vista machine across the wireless network. I assume that picked up
>the Vista add on.
>
>Any idea how to speed up my wireless printing? Thank you.

Wifi and printing isn't ever going to be a good combination. WiFi is a shared
medium, and print jobs involve a lot of network traffic, depending upon the
content that's being printed. WiFi is subject to a lot of problems, that
Ethernet isn't.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/wifi-will-never-be-as-fast-as-ethernet.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/1...-ethernet.html

How does the printer connect to the network? Ethernet, WiFi, or to the other
computer?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/background-information-useful-in.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...useful-in.html

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.

Chuck [MVP]

Here are some other observables. Basically, its slow on all my
networked computers.

All of these combinations resulted in slow printing and the properties
dialogue box taking >1 minute to open.
-- On a vista laptop connected hardwire via 100MB ethernet
-- On an XP pro latop connected via wifi (11g) and via hardwire 100MB
ethernet

The wireless is a little slower that then the hardwired computers, but
not very much slow.

bighead

> How does the printer connect to the network? Ethernet, WiFi, or to te other
> computer?

The printer is connect to the XP Home PC via usb cable. The XP Home
PC then shares the printer.

bighead