FIxed, thanks: wireless devices won't connect

[Pickle]

Hoping the wisdom of the forum can help!

All of a sudden, my Epson wireless printer and my Google Chromecast don't seem to be "connected" anymore. A search for these devices turns up nothing, both from my PC and ipad. Up until a couple of days ago both were working absolutely fine.

As far as I'm aware, nothing has changed in terms of settings, and if they have it's nothing I have done.

I've been Googling, but it's confusing me even more.

I have a BT infinity homehub.

Help?

[Loz]

Sounding like Roy from the IT Crowd - have you tried turning it off and back on again? In this case you homehub router? Power it off for 30 secs and then turn it back on.

It should at least cause them all to reconnect to it.

[Pickle]

Oh dear, I hang my head in shame. Loz, please accept this virtual beer/wine/chocolate.

[Loz]

Glad to be of help, Pickles.

[cathy p j]

Pickle,

I think we have also had the same problem this week.

On Tuesday evening my laptop wouldn't connect wirelessly to our HP printer, although it had worked perfectly for the past few years, and was definitely working fine the previous day. We spent a frustrating 4 hours on Tuesday evening trying to sort out the problem, and finally got it working after reloading the printer software and turning everything off and then on again. However, this eventual success was short lived, as it failed to print again the following day! We now seem to have it working again, after repeating the "power everything down then start it all up again" exercise, but I am not very confident that the problem is solved.

Like you, we also have a BT Infinity Home Hub, so I now wondering if that could be the source of the problem?

Cathy