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    powering off display kills ethernet connection

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by martinmach, Dec 9, 2008.

  1. martinmach

    martinmach Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi guys,

    i am traveling quite a bit with my T500, i need the extra battery life. this place has only DSL(requires a dialer) over ethernet . when i turn off my display manually or automatically, T500 drops the ethernet connection and the redial takes quite a bit of time, but i t will get connected later. when i wake it u from display off mode, it disconnects internet again. this is very frustrating especially in the middle of skype calls.

    i am using vista 64.

    Please help.

    Thanks,
    Martin
     
    martinmach, Dec 9, 2008
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  2. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Are you sure your not putting the notebook to sleep?
     
    flipfire, Dec 9, 2008
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  3. Mr._Kubelwagen

    Mr._Kubelwagen More machine now than man

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    I'm thinking the laptop is going into sleep as well. Are you hitting the function-display key combo, or the function-sleep combo? (For turning it off manually)
     
    Mr._Kubelwagen, Dec 9, 2008
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  4. martinmach

    martinmach Notebook Evangelist

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    no i am sure it is not going into sleep mode, the dialer is set to auto dial. it takes a whole 5 minutes to reconnect which is frustrating. i get skype back on with the display off.

    to turn off display

    1. power manager-> turn off display
    2. powermanager->powerplan->timers->display off to 1 minute
     
    martinmach, Dec 9, 2008
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  5. BinkNR

    BinkNR Knock off all that evil

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  6. martinmach

    martinmach Notebook Evangelist

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    hey the last suggestion in that thread helps. thanks Guys. :D

    NIC Properties > Advanced tab -> disable System Idle Power Saver fixes the problem.
     
    martinmach, Dec 10, 2008
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