Bosses Laptop

[Steve R Jones]

My boss works from home a lot in a wireless environment.... She'll put it in sleep mode and bring it to the office.

When she gets here and starts working (wireless) - she gets internet access just fine. (most of the time) But, her laptop doesn't show up on our All in One printer in the Scan to PC option.

Yesterday she was getting the ol Limited Connectivity. Rebooting the router fixed that...but took down the rest of the office for five minutes.

I tried in vain but haven't given up....to get her to do a full shut down at home and then bootup once she gets into the office... But she is such a high strung person, she thinks she'll miss out on something for the two minutes while it boots up.

The Win 7 lappy doesn't have a built in ethernet plug... She has to use a USB to Ethernet adaptor which she lost... But I bought her a new one yesterday...

Do you think going wired would help? And or do you think that her current method of coming out of sleep mode should work 100% when connecting to the printers?

Thanks in advance.

[Train]

A /flushdns may help as she is switching back and forth so much.

[Steve R Jones]

OK... That sounds like a nice idea. Odds I can create a batch file to do it.

Maybe have her disconnect from the wireless
flushdns
reconnect to the wireless.

[ecross]

Windows might be turning of the network adapter to save power. If you haven't already, go into the network adapter properties and turn the power-saving option off.

[Steve R Jones]

OK... That's another good idea. Except,,,,it would go to sleep during the drive to the office... I would think that when it woke up, it would grab the new DNS and or whatever information it grabs when it establishes the new network connection.

[Train]

It should wake up the wireless, but if it puts it into Save power before it goes to sleep, most likely it will stay in Save Power.

[Steve R Jones]

She has internet access as soon as she gets into the office... So I'm not so sure but will disable any power savers.

I'm also going to check "discovery options in Control Panel->Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center\Advanced sharing settings."

[ecross]

Right-click the network connection and choose Properties. Under the Network tab click Configure. Click the Power Management tab, and click to clear "turn off the device to save power."

[dneilson]

Have you tried Hibernate rather than Sleep.

[Steve R Jones]

I can try that if these other ideas don't help.

[dneilson]

Fair enough. As you probably know Hibernate writes memory to the hard drive.
Coming out of Hibernate restores memory to exactly where it was so that may do it for you. She shouldn't complain about boot up time as I've use it on many Desktops and Laptops and it's always in the 30 second range.

[HAN]

Or swap out the HDD for an SSD. Boot time would likely be no more than recovery from sleep. Cold boot time on my 4+ year old Samsung laptop is 15 seconds...