cable internet dropped by computer when idle

MadMouse1 · #1 October 31st, 2005, 12:12 AM

I am running WinXP home, with Zone Alarm pro and am on a wireless network (D-link router) with cable internet.

When my computer is idle for a while, the internet function is dropped. The only way I know of re-starting it is to reboot the computer. While my computer's internet access is dropped, other computers on the network have no problem. I checked out the internet options and see no problem. Any ideas would be helpful as this is pretty frustrating.

bAdWaYz · #2 October 31st, 2005, 04:03 AM

Check the properties of that wi-fi adapter and make sure the option for "allow computer to turn this device off to save power" is NOT checked.

MadMouse1 · #3 October 31st, 2005, 12:41 PM

My d-link adapter does not have such a setting. The closest it comes is a power saving feature which I have turned off. Is there some other setting that you know of in Windows that would do the same thing?

bAdWaYz · #4 October 31st, 2005, 03:06 PM

I worked on an XP computer once that would when idle would drop its internet connection. However it would only do this when it went into "hibernate" or "system standby". So you might want to check your power option properties and make sure the system standby is set to never and that you have hibernate turned off.

MadMouse1 · #5 October 31st, 2005, 03:13 PM

Thanks for the help. I did check the power options and it seemed O.K., but the enable hibernation was checked so I unchecked it and we will see what happens.

**degsy** · #6 October 31st, 2005, 05:40 PM

Also check the DHCP lease time in the router config.
Set it to the value required to not drop the lease.
This could be 0 (zero), the largest number possible (999999) or it may be in adefined list such as "Forever"