> Anyone have any ideas to what i can do to fix this?
Disable power management on the wifi card in the laptop? If you're going to
use it as a 'server' in this manner then it needs to keep that card running,
not going into power saving mode.
Another thing to try, open a CMD prompt and use ping -t to keep the link
active. Pick your gateway IP address for it, as in "ping -t 192.168.1.1"