Lose wireless connection the instant laptop goes into standby

[essential]

Computer: Sony Vaio FW190
Network Card: Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100
OS: Windows XP w/ SP3
Router: D-Link DGL-4300

I did several tests, I've signed on an AIM name on my laptop and viewed the name from my desktop and basically the instant my laptop goes to sleep/standby my wireless connection disconnects. If I leave my laptop on all night you can hear the CPU fan going on at points to cool it, so I?d prefer to have it sleep/standby, but I need my wireless to work to receive emails and instant messages while I?m sleeping.

My girlfriend and I have identical laptops, and we both have the problem, and she has a different router, so I think it's in the computer, not in the router.

I have gone into the network card properties and uncheck ?allow the computer to turn off this device to save power? and made sure all the power management schemes are fully allowing the wireless, but outside of that I don?t know what to do. I searched on Google for a while prior to posting. I only found one other person with the same problem, and his problem was solved when he uninstalled SP3. I don?t know if this is an SP3 issue, but I installed XP on this computer with SP3, but I have no experiences with the wireless without SP3.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Jeff7181]

I had the same issue when I had a laptop with XP on it... never did get it resolved. I have it from time to time on my Vista laptops too. My workaround is to disable and enable the network adapter and that gets it up and going again... I haven't figured out what causes it though.

*EDIT* I'm not sure I understand your problem exactly though... are you running a mail server from your laptop? If not, why are you under the impression your computer needs to be on to receive email?

 

[essential]

No, I am not running a mail server, I just leave my Outlook open all night receiving emails, and I leave AIM open all night to receive messages, I just want the wireless to work while the computer is asleep and it won't. I'm just not going to let the computer sleep because I haven't found a answer yet either.

 

[kevnich2]

I'm not sure I understand at all what your getting at. Sleep mode will turn the computer off and turn your wireless off, that's what it's designed for. It's designed to essentially shutdown quickly to allow the PC to wake back up quick, not keep everything running. If you want your programs running, you'll have to keep the computer turned on. I assume this is what your meaning? I'm not sure where you got the idea that your programs continue running normally in sleep mode, what do you think sleep mode is??

 

[essential]

Basically, if my computer goes to sleep while connected to the Internet via wired, my screen name stays signed on to AIM and i'm able to get messages when in standby. If i'm wireless, and it goes to standby, the wireless goes off. I just thought if the wired stays connected while asleep, I thought there would be a way for the wireless too as well, I guess it's not possible.

 

[Tbirdkid]

sleep mode kills all of the power hog services right away to conserve your battery. if you want, there is probably an adjustment made inside of your power settings to not shut off your wireless. you will just have to probably create a custom power scheme.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Tbirdkid
sleep mode kills all of the power hog services right away to conserve your battery. if you want, there is probably an adjustment made inside of your power settings to not shut off your wireless. you will just have to probably create a custom power scheme.

Doesn't really matter if his wireless adapter is left on if the CPU powers down, does it?

Sleep mode doesn't "kill power hog services." Sleep mode puts the computer to sleep... the only power being used is to keep data in memory so you can resume almost instantly. Everything else is shut off if sleep mode is working properly.