Windows 10: Ethernet Adapter looses connectivity after PC enters Sleep Mode

Hi,


I recently upgraded to a new PC. When PC wakes from sleep the internet is initially disabled and I have to wait for it to come back on.


Furthermore, when the PC sleeps I loose all power to my USB devices, and cannot wake the PC with the mouse or keyboard. I must press the power button on the computer to wake it.


This keyboard and mouse would "wake" my old PC. Why do they not wake this one? Why does my internet disable? I believe these two issues are related.


Please help. Thank you.

:)

 

loosing ethernet connection on sleep


Soooo ... I have read a lot of posts on this subject but still not found an answer.

I have 4 computers networked together .... two windows 7 units, one linux unit and one windows 10 unit.

The problem is with the windows 10 unit.

When it goes to sleep, I loose my Ethernet connection.

I can actually watch on the other computers as the unit drops off the network (and out of the homegroup).

This means I can not talk to. There is no way of waking it up.

I need to walk over to it and actually wake it up ... then I see it come back up on the network.

Great unless I am in the shop rather than the house and I need to walk over to the house to wake it up.

I did all the things suggested including going into the Device Manager and making sure
1) that I have "allow the computer to turn off this device" ... not checked
2) "wake on magic packet" ... enabled
3) "wake on pattern match" ... enabled

Still when it goes to sleep, I loose the connection.

So, I now tell the computer not to sleep .... enter "never" in both "sleep" under power and sleep and "never" under sleep in the "additional power settings".

The problem is, now my hard driver never sleeps!

Even if I have not used the computer for several hours, it is still spinning and the light flashes about once every 10 seconds.

My problem is, I can't believe it is good for the drive to run 24/7!

When I had it in sleep mode, saw (and could hear) that the drive stopped .... did not run for most of the day since I only use my computer for a hour or two at most each day.

Now the drive is running all the time. I assume it will fail a lot sooner doing this.

So, what am I missing?

Is there some setting in Windows 10 where I can tell the computer .... or more correctly the hard drive .... to shut down without loosing the Ethernet connection so that I can access this computer on the network when I want to?

Thanks so much ...... Mike

 

Loosing Ethernet Only When my PC Goes To Sleep


Okay so I stated, I keep loosing Ethernet Connection ONLY when my PC goes to sleep for Example: (I leave my PC on and go somewhere for about an hour or something the PC goes to sleep mode after 30 minutes) so every time this happens I loose my Ethernet Connection... but it always comes back about 5 minutes after it wakes up, it acts as if the Ethernet gets un plugged during it's "Sleep Period" and then when I move the mouse or something the Ethernet is gone but I have noticed almost as if the Ethernet Connection is asleep and comes on after the PC wakes up if that makes any sense.


Hopefully I posted this in the Correct place on this Forum.

 

loosing ethernet connection on sleep


Set how many minutes to wait before making your HDD sleep.