Curious wrote:
If disconnecting and reconnecting the cable works then maybe using
device manager to disable and enable the connection may also work. I
don't think the problem is the cable itself.

"Dave T." wrote in message
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Curious wrote:
Did you check if your BIOS had the same option since the Windows
option you are using is not working.
I am surprised that windows even with a restart does not work. How
about run/cmd/ ipconfig/ / renew?

"Dave T." wrote in message
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Daniel Norman wrote:
Go to control panel, system and maintenence, system - click on device
manager. Go to Network adapters and right click on the adapter
that you
use to connect to router. Click properties and go to the power
mangement tab. CLear the box that says allow device to wake the
computer.

Hope this helps.


Daniel, this did help, and I thank you. But unfortunately it led to
another problem. When the computer goes to sleep the Ethernet
connection is broken, but when it wakes up it fails to re-establish
that connection. Is there a setting to cause the network adapter to
establish a new connection? A hot restart won't do it, only a cold
boot.

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Dave T.


You can't imagine the extra work I had when I was a god. - Hirohito,
Emporer of Japan



Yeah, I think it may be coming down now to the cable. I have put this
thing to sleep several times and it re-established the connection on
its own a couple of times. This last time it failed to connect and I
unplugged the Ethernet cable and plugged it back in and it immediately
connected. I need to come up with another cable and see if that clears
it up.

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Dave T.


You can't imagine the extra work I had when I was a god. - Hirohito,
Emporer of Japan



Curious, I tried your suggestion and no joy. I disabled and enabled 3
times, and nuttin'. Unplugging and re-connecting does it. I can do the
deed in the back of the gateway router or at the net adapter and it will
re-establish the connection. BTW, I tried another cable and it made no
difference.

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Dave T.


You can't imagine the extra work I had when I was a god. - Hirohito,
Emporer of Japan