You might try turing off the screen saver and hd powerdown but wndows is not reliable enough for this kind of aplicaion imo. You wold be beter off runig linux which has powerrful scripting language that you casn use to run keep-alive cronjobs and logging funcions for what your trying to do. Almost any old cheepie laptop can run linux.
Tim Schaeffer Network Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Unger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: [SOCALWUG] Re: laptop 803.11b keeps shutting down, part 2 > > Mike, > > Please disregard my "better antenna" reply if it's obviously a PC config > issue and not a wireless connectivity issue. > jack > > Mike Burgess wrote: > >> - sorry hit send key instead of spell check, >> continueing mesage - >> >> Got a laptop, that I have configured to use as a data >> logger, and periodic FTP uploads to a website >> ( Solar power inverter monitor & logging ) >> http://tinyurl.com/fa5qj >> >> Problem I'm having is after some period of time, the >> wireless link gets lost, and locks up. This has been >> happening with 3 different adapters: >> PCCARD wireless >> internal USB to a wireless dongle (linksys) >> PCCARD USB adapter - hub - wireless dongle (Airlink) >> >> There are no nearby routers that have any usable >> power, they are barely detectable, link to my router >> is strong and steady. Other wireless PC's in the >> house never seem to be loosing connection (6 >> connections total) >> >> I've set the devices I can find in XP's device >> manager, to not power the USB hub down, and I'm using >> a flash drive on a hub, to log the data, and letting >> the internal HDD spin down. Data logs thru the hub to >> flash drive always, the USB port is staying on as >> requested. >> >> Screen and HDD are set to go off after 10 min. >> Sleep is NEVER >> >> Wireless stays up for an hour to several, and then >> seems to get shut down, and usually, only a reboot >> will reliably restart it. Safely removeing a dongle, >> and re-inserting it only works about 25% of the time. >> Suggestions on how to configure, or what I missed in >> the laptop setup? >> >> Mike >> >> >> > >> >> > > -- > Jack Unger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. > Serving the License-Free Wireless Industry Since 1993 > Author of the WISP Handbook - "Deploying License-Free Wireless WANs" > True Vendor-Neutral WISP Consulting-Training-Troubleshooting > Newsletters Downloadable from http://ask-wi.com/newsletters.html > Phone (VoIP Over Broadband Wireless) 818-227-4220 www.ask-wi.com > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
