You have completed wireless setup on your brother machine.
Brother printer wifi not connecting.
Use a wifi channel that s least used by other local networks.
Resolving printer connection issues.
Confirm that the printer is turned off.
The power indicator starts flashing in orange.
For printers that aren t connecting channels 1 6 and 11 usually work best instead of the default auto channel selection.
A printer can connect to a network on either an ethernet or wi fi local area network lan or you can connect it directly via usb to a computer on the network.
The wifi button will light up when connected.
Get back to your computer.
Brother printers cannot connect to 5ghz wifi but if you ask your internet provider they can split the combined network into two separate networks a 2 4ghz one and a 5ghz one then connect your printer to the 2 4ghz.
While holding down the feed button press the power button three times and then release the feed button.
In a network shared environment the scanning feature works from a server pc but does not work from client pcs.
Turn your brother machine on.
Click here to here to set up the wireless connection.
Press the up or down arrow key to select wlan and press ok.
To configure the wi fi settings again or if the status of the wi fi connection for your printer is not clear reset the wi fi settings of the printer.
Press menu button on the machine s control panel.
Press the up or down arrow key to select network and press ok.
Configuring the brother machine for a wireless network using wi fi protected setup or aoss.
If you replaced your wireless router or access point or changed its settings reconnect your brother machine to the new wireless router or access point.
To set up your brother machine on a wireless network.
There are three main ways of connecting your dell laser printer to your pc or network.
To use the network scanning feature you need to configure your brother machine in the peer to peer network environment.
Connect the power cord to your brother machine and then connect it to an electrical socket.
Press and hold the wifi button on your machine for about 2 seconds until the light begins to blink.
To test the connection you can try the following.
If you are having issues connecting to your dell laser printer please follow the appropriate guide below in sections 2 5.
Open the printer properties.
Check if your router is in the 2 4ghz frequency band which most wireless printers easily connect to compared to connecting to the 5ghz only mode.
If you ve recently switched from 2 4ghz to 5ghz wifi this is the problem.
2 1 make sure your computer is connected to the wireless network.