Wireless Network Stops Responding When No Constant Activity

[Bryan & Melissa Festa]

I have been experiencing this in both 13.04 and 13.10. My desktop computer has a micro usb Belken N300 wireless adapter and if there is no constant activity the network stops responding. If I reselect my wireless SSID it will reconnect and the network regains traffic until the activity stops again. I have found leaving streaming data in the background, like large ftp file transfers, has been my temporary solution. Happy to help out where I can but I'm not sure where to start looking.

nm-tool states:
Type: 802.11 WiFi
  Driver: rtl8192cu
  State: connected

lshw states:
*-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       bus info: usb@1:3
       logical name: wlan1
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8192cu driverversion=3.11.0-12-generic firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

ls mod states:
rtl8192cu 67723 0
rtl_usb 18448 1 rtl8192cu
rtlwifi 63229 2 rtl_usb,rtl8192cu
rtl8192c_common 48877 1 rtl8192cu
mac80211 596969 3 rtl_usb,rtlwifi,rtl8192cu
cfg80211 479757 2 mac80211,rtlwifi

I have tried changing my wireless channel, turning off IPv6, forcing static ip and dns. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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