Wireless connection drops after screensaver starts

[Neil Jones]

Hello,

I am running Vista ultimate on my laptop. Everything is great so far
except my wireless connection. Everytime my screensaver begins, Vista
drops my connection. After I restart Vista, everything works fine. My
wife is experiencing the same problem with her XP laptop. She also has
a Apple laptop which maintains its connection even during the screen
saver mode.

How can I setup my Vista to maintain the network connection?

Thank you in advance.

NJ

 

[Hank Arnold (MVP)]

Hello,

I am running Vista ultimate on my laptop. Everything is great so far
except my wireless connection. Everytime my screensaver begins, Vista
drops my connection. After I restart Vista, everything works fine. My
wife is experiencing the same problem with her XP laptop. She also has
a Apple laptop which maintains its connection even during the screen
saver mode.

How can I setup my Vista to maintain the network connection?

Thank you in advance.

NJ

What is your screen saver?

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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services

 

[Neil Jones]

What is your screen saver?

It is the default Vista Screen saver. Currently, I have set it too
photos. I don't know which screen saver my wife is using. The
connection is dropped after the screen saver is activated. Is it
anything to do with power management module in Windows?

NJ

 

[Mr. Arnold]

I just did a test sitting in a hotel room with the hotel having a wireless
network, and I am using Vista Ultimate on a HP laptop.

1) The screen saver was set to 1 minute with password enabled on.
2) The power saver setting was set to turn the computer off after 1 minute.

I was able to wake the computer up, log back into the desktop, and the
wireless connection was re-established with no problems. There is no special
setup nor did I do any configuration, other than, change the time of the
screen saver and power management to activate them.

You ever consider it's a problem with the card and its driver? You could
check this by getting a standalone USB wireless card and using it on the
computer to see what happens.

 

[Neil Jones]

I just did a test sitting in a hotel room with the hotel having a
wireless network, and I am using Vista Ultimate on a HP laptop.

1) The screen saver was set to 1 minute with password enabled on.
2) The power saver setting was set to turn the computer off after 1 minute.

I was able to wake the computer up, log back into the desktop, and the
wireless connection was re-established with no problems. There is no
special setup nor did I do any configuration, other than, change the
time of the screen saver and power management to activate them.

You ever consider it's a problem with the card and its driver? You could
check this by getting a standalone USB wireless card and using it on the
computer to see what happens.

The wireless router is Apple's Aironet (the one that looks like a
mushroom). I beginning to see an Apple conspirancy here, since my
wife's Apple laptop does not drop connection long after the laptop
screensaver session.

Thank you for the help though.

NJ