Does closing the laptop disconnect from wifi?
The manager here in our park has requested that we manually disconnect from the wifi each time we're finished using it. They contend that just closing the laptop leaves it connected to the wifi and c...
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Older laptops (and perhaps some new ones) have a mechanical switch to turn Wifi on or off. My new laptop running Win 8.1 has no physical switch but has a function key to set it to "airplane mode" which shuts off the wifi. So there should be a way for you to completely shut off Wifi when the laptop is running or in sleep mode whether open or closed.
One problem with Win 8 and 8.1 is that there seems to be no way to completely shut off updates as there was in Win 7 and earlier and whenever Microsoft decides to send out updates they get downloaded and installed - and these could use up bandwidth.
One problem with Win 8 and 8.1 is that there seems to be no way to completely shut off updates as there was in Win 7 and earlier and whenever Microsoft decides to send out updates they get downloaded and installed - and these could use up bandwidth.
