Hi,

my sister just bought a new laptop, its a Sony Vaio with Vista Home, not too sure about the other specs yet. I have hooked up the internet for her on my home network, problem is when the laptop goes into sleep mode and then we wake it up, the internet stops working.. ZoneAlarm shows no activity going in or out, any ideas what this could be? is there some sort of option in vista that stops internet activity when the system goes into sleep mode?

Thanks,

Whenever a computer goes into sleep state all network connections are first closed. By coming out of sleep the network connection is either (1) automatically reconnected (wired), or it must first scan for access point (wireless).

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Strang then how whenever we come out of sleep modeit doesnt find a connection even though it has an ethernet cable in the back of it, as soon as we perform a restart of the pc it works fine again, what am i doing wrong?

it never sued to happen with her previous laptop, could it be ZoneAlarm?

Thanks,