https://coderrob.com/tags/power-management/Recent content in Power Management on CoderrobHugoen-USThu, 23 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0500https://coderrob.com/posts/stop-windows-from-powering-down-your-network-adapter/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0500https://coderrob.com/posts/stop-windows-from-powering-down-your-network-adapter/<p>Windows and network drivers can place a network adapter into a lower-power state to save energy. That is a reasonable default for a laptop doing normal laptop things. It is considerably less helpful when the machine is halfway through an overnight download and you wake up to discover that progress stopped shortly after you went to bed.</p> <p>I ran into this while transferring data and downloading large language models over an unreliable connection. A download that already needed hours would stall when the laptop was left alone. I was saving a tiny amount of power at the adapter while wasting considerably more energy restarting transfers, checking the machine, and babysitting a computer that was supposed to be doing unattended work.</p>