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randycat99

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I recently moved my TS where I could then use a hardwire for the network connection rather than wifi.  The difference now is that my TS will no longer stay asleep while the cable is connected.  It will go into sleep mode when I command it, but it then wakes back up after about a minute.  Then if I unplug the cable, it stays asleep indefinitely. 

What gives?  Anybody else observe this?  Is there a setting somewhere I need to flip or a fix that can be downloaded?  I am still on Vista (all SP's updated to latest).

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January 3, 2010 3:27 PM

This was discussed a while back and I think the solution was to go into the lan adapter settings and turn off "Wake on LAN" in the settings.

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January 3, 2010 3:32 PM

I thought about that, but couldn't figure out where to find that, for the life of me. Any hints? It wasn't in the Power Settings, to be sure.

January 3, 2010 3:36 PM

Nvm- finally found it by rooting around in the Device Manager.

January 5, 2010 2:45 PM

It is also in the power options for the computer in the control pannel, and in the Bios as well to enable or disable wake on lan.

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January 5, 2010 9:22 PM

The wake on LAN setting did the trick, but now it just exposed another problem. :( Now when I purposely awake my computer, it no longer "awakens" my router. That is, the network light stays dead, whereas in the past, it would light up when I woke up my computer. It's pretty important that this happens, because if it doesn't, there is no LAN and there is no internet connectivity until I reboot the router (or find some other computer to ding the router "on").

Anybody ever have to wrestle through this? Is it so hard to have it both ways with this thing? Why does the wireless seem to end up hitting all the bases more reliably (other than bandwidth, of course)?

January 6, 2010 7:24 PM

I've wrestled with lots of different things waking my touchsmart up from sleep including bugs landing on the screen. Since I keep my brighness on high, Its like a lighthouse beacon in the night when a gnat lands on the screen or my TS logs onto Windows updatte to check for the latest security updates.

So, my solution is to his FnF9 combo and put the screen to sleep. It does not suspend the whole computer but it does turn the screen off. So far, its been my best solution.

David

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January 9, 2010 11:36 PM

I'm having some success by setting the following in the Device Manager for the Network Adapter:

enable- allow computer to turn off this device to save power
enable- allow this device to wake the computer
enable- only allow management stations to wake this computer

The key that made the difference is in the next setting in the Advanced tab:
Shutdown Wake-On-Lan- enabled

I don't know what it does or why it makes a difference or what it even means.

January 14, 2010 8:24 PM

Scratch those suggestions from me above. They didn't really fix anything, and it was just random chance that it happened to work when I was watching it. It had more to do with my other computer happening to wake-up the router network (which in of itself, happens only incidentally).

What seems to be most reliable to wake up the router is just enabling the wifi on my computer, but still keeping it secondary priority, so my actual network connection is still from the hardline. Seems like a silly way to use the wifi hardware, but I guess it is a touch better than sitting there doing nothing, right? Naturally, the "allow this device to wake the computer" checkbox is disabled on both network interfaces (LAN + wifi). Must be just a funny feature (needing a wake-up call over wifi to engage network access) with the particular router I have (2wire supplied by SBC).

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