Disable power saving on ethernet

For watever reason, Windows (out of the box) tends to be set to maximum power-saving which includes setting your network connection to go to sleep when it can:

• especially on workstations, and
• especially if you go take an extended coffee break or have a meeting.

This is not the best setting for any application, like Theatre Manager, QuickBooks or other accounting software that needs to connect to a database on a server.

We suggest disabling power management on the ethernet card.

• use instructions like this for windows 7 and 8
• Use instructions below for Windows 10 (they are very similar to windows 7)
  • Open Control Panel
  • select network and Internet
  • Pick Network Connections. the screen should look like below
  • click the network card
  • right click and show properties
  • click configure

    

  • click power management and uncheck the highlighted item per the image below

    

In addition, please make sure to disable power management except for monitors.