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Interesting. And thanks for the response. Mine is a DLink card. My machine is too old to have a built in wi-fi adapter.
Mine's not WiFi....
I hardwire as much as I can... There are jacks all over the house with "grab cables" strategically hidden in convenient places for guests and family to use....
(Grab Cable == Ethernet cable with a small metal disk attached so it sticks to a magnet in a convenient, but hidden, spot... behind an end table, on the side of the china cabinet, etc.)
Well... that wasn't it!
I just opened my local downloads folder (D:\downloads) which is shared and my son, on the night shift this week, comes out of his bedroom, still half asleep, and yells ... "It just $#%$%^ did it again!"... and sure enough.... every machine in the house is spun up.
Thing is we aren't using centralized storage... We have a NAS for our movies but the rest of it is scattered all over the network... I have playlists get files from 3 different computers... Yes I know... build a freaking server already....
We're also a shiftwork house... My youngest (still at home ) works shifts as does the better half and with me working from home now, my hours are all over the place... so there's never really a time when there isn't someone awake in the house.
So our machines will be on, usually with the monitors turned off, all the time so that we can get at files without having to sneak into each other's rooms and turn things on...