confuse wifi card (reboot software needed)

Sometimes my network card (when under high traffic conditions) just seems to lose the plot, it drops out and hangs.

This is annoying if 400mb into copying a 500mb file and its happened more than once.

so, next time I leave it copying a file and it stops, can I get some software to reboot the machine?

I know thats a bit drastic but its xp not linux, linux could proably just unload the driver and re-load it etc.....

So, software to reboot the pc if nets gone down, checked every 5 minutes or so? gentlemen start your hard drives...........

Double-check the properties of that device and make certain there's no power-saving enabled for it. I've run into this on other computers where a NIC shuts off to conserve power and anything going across teh network is hosed.

I dont know about getting the signal back, but i use download accel, and it will continue downloading from the spot it stopped.

Yup I fixed that, and then turned auto-reconnect on, but it seems to crash at a more hardware level.

Its just really damn annoying when Icomeback to it after an hour (or a sleep) and find its only ftp'd 25% of my mp3's or something.

If it rebooted it could continue by itself etc

Such software must exist for windows, its not like a hang is unheard of with xp users......

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Originally Posted by Pokey

I dont know about getting the signal back, but i use download accel, and it will continue downloading from the spot it stopped.

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But if I dont return to the machine for 12 hours its been wasting 12 hours of time and power.

I need it rebooted.

Then the software (emule, bitlord, ftp in startup directory or whatever) can resume where it left off.

This started as a crash when in ftp from server to car pc problem, I just mentioned internet as a simple ping to google/ibm/msn etc is a simple way to see if the card is still up.

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Originally Posted by lez

But if I dont return to the machine for 12 hours its been wasting 12 hours of time and power.

I need it rebooted.

Then the software (emule, bitlord, ftp in startup directory or whatever) can resume where it left off.

This started as a crash when in ftp from server to car pc problem, I just mentioned internet as a simple ping to google/ibm/msn etc is a simple way to see if the card is still up.

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I'm not a programer, but on my server I have it reboot every 24hours, whether it needs it or not. I know its extreme, but maybe in your case, reboot every 'whatever' when you're away...

just a thought :)

Ok, another scenario

I have some p2p software running, and I've been in a q for 8 hours trying to get that last 1mb of 'earth 2 the complete series 1 dvd' because I cant buy it anywhere.

Now that download would never complete if I reboot every hour, because I would fall from the q


If the stupid card hangs I dont mind rebooting as I have fell from the q anyway, but that wont happen every hour.

Sometimes the card can go a few days with no problem, then it can go to lunch twice in an evening

I have just had another google to no avail, too many hits or not enough because the keywords are too vague, but someone must have a piece of software to do this.

'every 5 minutes check connection alive, reboot if not'

It would actually be a terribly easy program to write. Find someone capable and they should be able to do it in an afternoon.

If your using a 802.11G card try setting it in the B mode. G mode is supposedly a bit flakey. A lot higher transfer speeds but I was warned they crash all the time.

Are you running XP? If your card is just over heating and quitting, I would download this shutdown program.
http://www.budja.com/shutdown/

Then I would grab a cron program that's better than Windows Scheduler. Windows Schedular will do daily, but not hourly jobs.
http://www.downloadjunction.com/product/software/30619/

Another thing. My wife was complaining that her wireless was going down all day. When I got off my wired computer and turned it off she had no problems after that. maybe you can be having the same problem.