Vista - Internet Link drops when waking from Sleep mode

Every time that my Dell Dimension 9200 goes into Sleep mode, it drops the
Network link and is unable to resurrect it without a full reboot - this
problem has only occurred since upgrading from XP MCE to Vista Ultimate.
After weeks of discussions by e-mail with Microsoft Support, we are nowhere -
they even tried to have me set my system up so that it never goes into Sleep
mode (I may be dumb but .... !) - I wonder what the environmentally-friendly
Bill Gates would say if he knew that his staff were advocating adding to
global warming !!! Can anybody help me to resolve this problem ?

On Mar 23, 10:42 am, holmesrj <holme...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> Every time that my Dell Dimension 9200 goes into Sleep mode, it drops the
> Network link and is unable to resurrect it without a full reboot - this
> problem has only occurred since upgrading from XP MCE to Vista Ultimate.
> After weeks of discussions by e-mail with Microsoft Support, we are nowhere -
> they even tried to have me set my system up so that it never goes into Sleep
> mode (I may be dumb but .... !) - I wonder what the environmentally-friendly
> Bill Gates would say if he knew that his staff were advocating adding to
> global warming !!! Can anybody help me to resolve this problem ?

We probably need a little more information. I assume you are using a
wired connection to a network and using the built in networking (not
an addin card or wireless)

before sleeping (while the network is still working) open up the
command prompt and type "ipconfig"
reply with the resulting section for the network you use
example =>

....
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : ph.cox.net
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::d827:f4db:1501:213e%9
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.145
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1
....


After coming back up from sleep do it again and see if anything
changes.

Also, if you run the command prompt as administator you can try the
following two commands to see if you can avoid a reboot:

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew


Let us know what else you have tried short of a full reboot.

Good luck