Wireless issue

[denning]

Not sure if this is the right place to make this query, so apologies if it is not, but I wonder if anyone can help?

I am with Orange unlimited wireless broadband and have an Inventel wireless router/livebox. I prefer to leave my laptop switched on and connected all day. However, if I am idle for any length of time (say ten minutes or more) on my return it takes longer than it should to open a webpage. My guess is that my laptop is being disconnected if idle.

If this is correct, does anyone have any idea how I can adjust this? I have gone through "network and internet connections" in control panel and also my livebox homepage http://192.168.1.1/ but cannot see anything activated relating to idle time, but I might have missed it! So if anyone can suggest anything I will be grateful! Thanks.

[BlueBoy]

Does your laptop have any power saving settings that me be invoked after a certain amout of idle ime.. For instance , if the hard disk
powers off it will have to spin up to speed before it can work again.
Same possibility with the wireless lan

[Ian]

This is quite a well known problem with Orange. A friend of mine used to get it all the time. What you could do is find a web page that is refreshes every minute or so and leave it on that. Perhaps having BA running with a 60 sec refresh on some future market would also work ?

[denning]

Thanks for your replies, guys. I'll have a look at what you both suggest.