Thread: Internet Not Working When Coming Out Of Vista Sleep

--Vista Home Premium 32bit--

When I come out of sleep, my internet doesnt work. Ive figured out that disabling and re-enabling my Ethernet port does the trick (wired connection). I have turned off "Allow this computer to turn off device to save power" in device manager. Im not sure what else it could be. Is it the hardware itself or is it something with the internet settings that arent properly renewing the settings? Is there a bat file I can make to disable and re-enable my Ethernet port? I would be happy with that seeing as that this hardware can be picky sometimes talking between the BIOS settings and Vista's settings.

In the meantime, Ill create a bat file to release and renew my ipconfig and see if that does the trick. Any way to have this bat file run every time I come out of sleep? I know I can do it every time the computer starts up from a shutdown but I wasnt sure about coming out of sleep.

Do you have a router?

Yeah its AT&T 2wire router that came with the service. Same thing happened when I used a Linksys router with Comcast though, so Im thinking its something on my box.

There's some power management settings you need to set in your network adapter:

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=605095

Originally Posted by WileECyte

There's some power management settings you need to set in your network adapter:

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=605095

Success! Though, now, when I put it into sleep/hibernate, it automatically wakes back up. A few BIOS changes fixed that issue though, so Im good to go now. Thanks WileE! Youre a swell guy, I dont care what anyone else says about you. :P

Glad I could be a help. Let me guess you needed to turn Wake on LAN off in the BIOS?

That was already turned off, but the 2nd LAN port was enabled and there was no line for WakeOnLAN for that port, so Im assuming it was just defaulted to be enabled, so I just disabled the port since Im not even using it.