Manual IP Issue With the New XB7 Router?

@BruceW

Yes, I tried reserving the IP in the Xb7 router first, while leaving the Epson Printer as "Acquire Automatically". No luck. Then also tried manually inputting the IP on the epson. Neither worked.

Try to remove the word epson in the comment section, replace it with 1 word only, at the top with no spaces, the Xb7 can be finicky that way

@jlavaseur But Epson is one word? I typed that in, it was blank originally.

But I had read about that and tried with and without a word in the comment box.  No  luck....

You Must have a word or it will not work, just change it  in case it’s stored someplace from trying

@jlavaseur

Okay, I tried just putting "car", no spaces, nothing else. Restarted everything, but still no luck.  

@jlavaseur I tried that too a couple times. @BruceW up above suggested that too, so I tried both auto acquire on the printer and setting a reserved on the printer. Neither worked

So I have 2 printers that are approximately 10 + years old, a epson and a canon, both work flawlessly with my Xb7, I didn’t have to anything but enter my credentials in the printers control panel, so the fact that you said it showed connected to your gateway, is not a issue with the Xb7, that being said, if your computer isn’t using the correct IP of your printer, you might get that error, the only time I had a issue was when my printers IP changed and my computer was still trying to use the old IP, so your doing all this unnecessary configuration, yet you failed to mention if you configured your computer or device to use the correct IP, personally I would remove any reserved IPs, enter your WiFi credentials into your printer and let it connect, then check the IP it is assigned, you don’t mention what operating system you use, but do a new printer setup on your computer or device, make sure it is using the correct printers IP, I can print from all my devices without a issue, you seem to be making it more difficult then it actually is, one time my epson couldn’t see my WiFi network, but it was because the gateways channel changed,  it needed to be on a certain channel for it to connect, people give the Xb7 a bad rap, I find it extremely reliable and fast for a rented gateway, I upgraded from the Xb6 and the Xb7 out performs it in every aspect, I use win 10, Linux and FreeBSD operating systems without a single issue, plus apple devices, I can print from them if they are configured correctly, just my thoughts 

@jlavaseur  "you seem to be making it more difficult then it actually is"  ....Not at all, I'm well aware of all the basic baby steps and ideas on this and tried those first. It's not simply my computers trying to connect to the printers old IP address. Because when I do a connection status check on the Epson printer itself, it prints out a report saying an IP conflict is detected with the printer and the router as I mentioned. And yet I check the network info section on the Epson printer screen itself in the settings and can confirm the IP address matches the IP address set on the XB7 router, and the gateway and the MAC address all match.

I agree, it's not the XB7 that is faulty, it's my printers old firmware/hardware. But it is something in the XB7 that is preventing my Epson's old firmware/hardware from being compatible, since my printer worked fine on the XB6. Perhaps the Xb7's firmware is just not compatible for my printers firmware.

"you don’t mention what operating system you use". Not relevant in this case, as the issue is the printer, not my computers. However, we have 2 different computers, one with Windows 8.1. One with Windows 10. Neither can find the printer on the network. Also, all the setup attempts we did, we did manually on the printer screen itself in the network setup process, or directly connected to the printer with a USB cord using Epson setup software from scratch, and Epsonnet Config. 

 I understand you have an even older Epson printer, I guess it is just different hardware, different internal software, different setup than mine. When googling this problem, others have the same issue and tried many of the same steps with no luck. We also tried changing the default gateway address of the XB7 to the 192.168.1.1 standard that most routers are/were, that did not work either. I appreciate the ideas, but it may just not be wirelessly possible with this model printer.  

 Also, all the setup attempts we did manually on the printer screen itself in the network setup process, this concerns me, reserved IP falls within the dhcp range, you can view that in the gateways admin page, setting a static IP dont fall within that range, it falls outside the dhcp range, so they are 2 completely different IP ranges, so your screenshot shows you are trying to both at the same time, you can only do one or the other with a single IP address, so i can imagine there would be a conflict, also look at the top of the printers config page, it states this also, the reason i asked the OS, because on my different operating systems its not the same for setting up a printer

@jlavaseur   I couldn't quite tell from your wording, are you saying that the printers Static IP should fall in the same DHCP range, or that mine currently is in the same DHCP range but should not be?

Either way though, the XB7 does NOT allow me to set a static IP outside of the DHCP range. I read online people saying the static/reserved IP should not be within the same range as the DHCP range, but yet the XB7 forces it to be in the same range. So for example, say the XB7's DHCP range is 10.0.0.2 - 10.0.0.253. If I try to set my printers static IP as 10.0.0.297 (outside the range), the XB7's gateway software has a pop up blocking me from doing so, see picture