Fogive my ignorance, but is it not enough to turn off my wifi switch?

@pcalo
Yes it is really not enough to do so, as long as your network keeps on seeking for a connection or if your net card is enabled, it will still eat up some proccessing load.

SeveredVesper and RogerS,

Hopefully you'll be able to adjust these 'beginner' scripts to suit.  There are many google sites to learn from.  I've updated/tweeked the scripts a bit ... which I'll place on my other thread, here ... after others give there input.

I lust after programming solutions to make artsy inspiration a bit easier.  I program a bit for my day job (to survive).  I learn mostly by googling and lurking forums.

Most of you Sonarites do the same thing within Sonar's parameters and Sonar's 'higher' language.  Still, I'm pretty stupid (but dumb) with a lot of Sonar concepts, even after 3 years. 

I appreciate your expertise a lot, SeveredVesper.

Philip


SeveredVesper and RogerS,

Hopefully you'll be able to adjust these 'beginner' scripts to suit.  There are many google sites to learn from.  I've updated/tweeked the scripts a bit ... which I'll place on my other thread, here ... after others give there input.

I lust after programming solutions to make artsy inspiration a bit easier.  I program a bit for my day job (to survive).  I learn mostly by googling and lurking forums.

Most of you Sonarites do the same thing within Sonar's parameters and Sonar's 'higher' language.  Still, I'm pretty stupid (but dumb) with a lot of Sonar concepts, even after 3 years. 

I appreciate your expertise a lot, SeveredVesper.

Yup, I already adjusted the scripts to display less info. I've been a programmer for my entire career, but I never got into VB scripts. Might be worth a look. Thanks again.

Likewise RogerS,

Many VB scripts, JScripts, HTML, batch files and other native routines are worth googling/modifying for personal use.

I've programmed a lot for my podiatry practice in various languages and that has been fairly lucrative. 

It oft pays off (for me it seems), the hours spent trying to become more efficient.

The Windows wouldn't try to connect if the wifi is OFF, or if the internet connection by cable is OFF.

I dont turn off the internet any way..Only the browser if I don't need it.

I have Sonar playing a song I recorded right now, and opened another instance of Firefox into YouTube, into a video of someone performing a song. It plays both the Sonar and the Youtube.

Sonar says CPU 8 or 9%...

So I also now turn on the Process Explorer, and it show a total CPU load of 58%.

I don't run VSTi's in Sonar though. Only standalones and use virtual MIDI-Yoke and MIDI-Ox for the routings of hardware and softwares.

I do have VST audio effects, though in the audio tracks.

I do realize that each system and tasks are different for each, but I frankly don't share the concern as it relates to internet connections..

The exception would be if Windows wants to do an UPDATE or so... But those can be scheduled or blocked.

Or as suggested, turn the wifi off, or unplug the DSL cable sounds like a reasonable first alternative.

But I, my experience here an view is limited to what I do and have here, of course. But hope that sharing the view and comment is not considered an opposition to anything.

Good Info bitflipper, and everyone else who has contributed to this thread.  I will definitely be using this shortcut in my setup.   

NoKey: It sounds like you have an excellent DAW setup (which I seem to have).  It also seems like you're mostly content with the 'work-arounds' you have.  "If its not broken, why fix it.", etc.

If you/I are uncomfortable with personal scripts and batch files, I'd only use only simple ones that are necessary and/or comfortable. 

If you ever need a simple one; perhaps there's such a batch file that you'd use for a season.  Another problem with batch files is that they must be updated.

I'm scared to make direct registry changes, even as a programmer!

Many artists are more comfortable with traditional switches than new ones (ie. scripts) 'in-the-box'.

I feel the need to emphasize that if your network is enabled and you aren't having problems, then don't try to fix what isn't broken.

I've been using Sonar since v1 in our studios and all DAWs are on our gigabit network. We run version control software so we are constantly saving and retrieving projects from the version control server. We are all on the internet. We run antivirus. And we run at a 128 ASIO buffer size with no problems.

I have never been able to blame the wired network for a problem with Sonar.  Wireless, yes. I do have some laptops with Sonar and wireless and the wireless drivers have caused problems.

And I don't doubt that there are poor wired network drivers that will cause glitches. But there are video cards that do that as well, and we DAW users steer clear of them. We should also steer clear of those bad network interfaces.

I realize that a video card is a necessity and a network interface isn't... mostly... (it's increasingly more necessary as time goes on). IMO it's better to fill your DAW with good hardware than to try to work around poor hardware's failings. But that's just how I prefer things and if others don't want to have their network enabled that's fine. (it is a decent security measure) I just don't want people reading this to think that they have to disable their network to run a DAW. Or that they have to disable anything if there isn't actually a problem with their DAW.

If you use Vista and you just want a shortcut icon to turn ON/OFF your network you can do this :

Click Start, Select Network, Select Network and Sharing Center, Under TASK select Manage Network Connections, you will see an icon for your Network connection, all you have to do is either "Drag and drop that icon onto your desktop" or "Right Click over the icon and select to create the shortcut, it want allow you to create the same shortcut there so it ask to add it to the desktop, just select yes.

When you double click on that icon on your desktop it will give you the menu with the selection "Disable" to disable your network. When you want to turn your network back on just click on the short cut you created again to enable it.

You can also drag that Short Cut Icon to the quick launch bar on the bottom left if you just want to single click it instead of having to double click it on the desktop.

"If you ever have any problems, which I never have had, you can always Start/Network/Network and Sharing Center and select Diagnose and Repair", or just right click and select Diagnose and repair on the network connection icon on the bottom right of your screen "The two monitors symbol".

 You can also just click on the Shortcut Icon you created and run diagnose from there.

You can probably do this in XP or Windows 7 in a similar way, I haven't used XP in a while so I can't remember the menu selections, I would think Windows 7 would be similiar to Vista, I've only used their Beta version of 7 and that's been a while back so I can't remember.

If your computer has a lot of memory and processor power you may not even need to turn off the network connection or see any difference in performance. A lot of this stuff has to do with automation IMO, I have my computer take care of things at a time when I don't use it, so there's very little accessing my connection, and when it's done it turns itself off.


Bobby