Screen saver messes up a download over wireless adapter

That's if you get the rebate.

Note there are at least two different chips used in them. RTL8187B is one of them. You can see in the description here, the device is pretty intelligent. It even has small buffers, to hold packets until the host is ready to poll the USB port.

I suppose it might depend, on what other state changes are triggered by your screen saver. For example, you probably wouldn't want the OS to turn off power to the adapter, to "save power". In this example, make sure the box is not ticked.

This one is an example for WinXP.

I don't know where this one fits into Vista, but you may want to investigate this. In the few reviews I read on Newegg, I didn't see something matching your description. But there are several hundred of them to read, and maybe you'll find one that matches your symptoms.

Paul

Does the power managment turn the USB adaptor off when the screen saver comes on?

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Check power management settings for BOTH your USB ports and the wireless adapter, device manager -> USB -> USB Hub (all of them) > power management -tab ->uncheck "Allow .. to save power) ....................... -> Network adapters -> ......................... ( start -> run = devmgmt.msc )