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    M11x R2 Disconnecting during Local RDP Sessions after Hibernation / Sleep

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by FusionZ06, Sep 20, 2010.

  1. FusionZ06

    FusionZ06 Notebook Consultant

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    I have an M11x R2 that has the following problem.

    If freshly reboot the machine and then locally RDP into the machine it will stay connected without any issue at all.

    If I send the laptop to sleep or hibernate and then do a local RDP session say the next day, it will disconnect about every 10 minutes and have to reconnect.

    I thought it could be the wireless card in the laptop so I replaced it with an Intel 6200. Nothing changed.

    I run two Linksys WRT54GL with Tomato and WDS.

    Any ideas?

    *note by local I mean over LAN not WAN. Internet connectivity is not the issue.
     
    FusionZ06, Sep 20, 2010
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  2. slickie88

    slickie88 Master of Puppets

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    I would think that would have to be an issue with RDP at the OS level rather than hardware, router, etc.

    If your laptop is going to sleep then the you would think that the session is going into a disconnected state and then timing out. My guess is that it's not doing a proper disconnect. I would imagine that if you were to log out of the session before you put it to sleep then you wouldn't have this problem.
     
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  3. FusionZ06

    FusionZ06 Notebook Consultant

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    The laptop is set to always on. It only goes to sleep after I close the lid.

    I do log-out of the session before closing the lid...
     
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    slickie88 Master of Puppets

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    And a reboot always fixes the issue? Have you tested this with the M11x on a wired only connection?
     
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    FusionZ06 Notebook Consultant

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    Yes. Reboot always fixes it. As long as I do not sleep the machine I can connect and reconnect the RDP session and it will always stay connected.

    No. I have not tried a wired connection yet.
     
    FusionZ06, Sep 20, 2010
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  6. GNandGS

    GNandGS Notebook Deity

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    Check # of processes before/after RDP session... ?
     
    GNandGS, Sep 20, 2010
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