If i read a long webpage for example. If there is no activity, when I go to the next page, I will get Page not found error. Open a new browser window, can’t get to any webpage. I never lose my connection with my router. At least according to the icon. I have to disconnect from my wireless connection and reconnect.
I dont think it’s my router, cuz it only affects my laptop. I have the latest drivers. I’ve found a workaround, by opening a command window and doing a continuous ping so my connection stays active even when reading a long page of text. But I want to know why this would be happening.
WAG here… Is the setting for the wireless adapter set to turn-off after too short a period of non-use? I think there is a settings-page within ‘advanced’ part of Power Settings that allows you to check/uncheck particulars of what components actually go to ‘sleep’ - you can choose whether disks, adapters, or whatever go to ‘stand-by’ and after what period of time, etc… Perhaps the adapter is going to sleep much to quickly and not waking up as it should? I had a similar problem with a laptop long ago and it was fixed by not allowing something to go ‘power-down’, so to speak (iirc)
I have had very similar problems myself with some online games, specifically Magic: the Gathering Online and Eve Online, and perhaps World of Warcraft (although it’s been awhile for that one). If I don’t send a continuous ping to the server I’m connected to, I will get disconnected after any decent amount of idle time, sometimes only a few seconds. My connection goes through a wireless router to facilitate other people using the internet wirelessly, but my own connection is 100% wired. It seems as though not using the wireless router at all (and only hooking it up when needed) cuts down on the probability of it occurring, but I’m not too positive about that.
Running PingPlotter to ping the server every 10 seconds has worked very well to keep me connected. It was suggested by CCP (the makers of Eve Online) as a way, when combined with a client-server log you also run, to track what happens when your connection drops. Instead of pinpointing the problem, the problem stopped - unless I didn’t run PingPlotter. Thus, there’s something about the client-server connection that will reset itself if it isn’t used, and that reset is more likely to occur while running my internet connection through my wireless router. Somewhere in the internal workings of the internet connection there must be an assumption that a ping will occur every so many seconds, and either the application doesn’t generate these pings or they don’t occur often enough.
eta: The internet connection itself does not drop - just the connection for that particular application. It has never been a problem for me to browse websites where I might take 5 minutes to read a page; perhaps a new session is created with every page request. The connection drops in applications that typically demand the possibility of constant communication, and when it doesn’t get used, it gets shut off.
I believe ionizer hit the nail on the head. I’m at the library right now and didn’t bring my computer so I can’t access the location of the settings. Plus it would really help to know more about your system; OS, specific hardware/computer name, what wireless adapter it uses.
Generally speaking for Windows there should be a wireless icon in your control panel, and I believe you can also access it through the network connections setting. Do you have the wireless connection displayed in your systray? If so, does it go from Connected to having a red X indicating you aren’t connected?
Never goes to a red X. It shows connected all the time. Just wont pull a webpage if it’s idle too long. Thus my need to run a continuous ping so it never goes completely idle.
I was having the same problem. I downloaded Visual Route 2010 and it seems to have fixed the problem. I set it to trace the IP every minute, and that keeps the connection active, and it won’t time out.