WiFi connection after sleep

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Well after my laptop's been to sleep, not me :D

Lappy is a 17" HP G72 running 64bit W7 Home Premium (fully updated) with 8GB of RAM. The wifi is built-in and running the latest Atheros driver.

Whenever I wake my laptop up it takes ages for the wifi to reconnect to my network - sometimes up to 3 minutes. It's much faster when first powering up.

Anyone got any ideas of why, or how to speed it up?

TIA :)
 
Sounds drastic, but uninstall the wifi card in device manager.
Restart, windows finds 'new' hardware and re-installs it.
You might want to connect by ethernet cable so it can hunt the best driver.
 
4wd said:
Sounds drastic, but uninstall the wifi card in device manager.
Restart, windows finds 'new' hardware and re-installs it.
You might want to connect by ethernet cable so it can hunt the best driver.
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Drastic indeed - that'll have to wait until tomorrow :eek:
 
neil_g said:
Okay.

If you look at the list of wireless networks when it's not connecting can you see yours there? What's the signal like?
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Yes, my network is always visible on the list - even at the top. Signal is excellent. I even have the same problem if I'm in the same room as the router. My wife's laptop (Dell) doesn't have this problem and all my settings are the same as hers.

It's just REALLY annoying!
 
Bristolian said:
Well after my laptop's been to sleep, not me :D

Lappy is a 17" HP G72 running 64bit W7 Home Premium (fully updated) with 8GB of RAM. The wifi is built-in and running the latest Atheros driver.

Whenever I wake my laptop up it takes ages for the wifi to reconnect to my network - sometimes up to 3 minutes. It's much faster when first powering up.

Anyone got any ideas of why, or how to speed it up?

TIA :)
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Go make yourself a cup of tea :lol:

Steve
 
strumstrum said:
Their might be a secondary program controlling the power saving saving functions, different manufacturers like to add non Windows bloat ware, have had similar issues on both Asus and Lenovo.
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Hmm, hadn't thought of that. I wonder if the adaptor driver is doing this. I didn't notice this started after a driver update but maybe it did .....

If a uninstall the card in the devices menu and then power off/on so it gets re-installed will it revert back to an older (or even the original) driver if I deny it internet access?
 
you could try assigning a fixed ip address to the wireless card and reserving the same ip for the mac address of your laptop within the router setup ( lan setup ) it might speed things up a bit
 
Seen several threads on this in other forums and no real answer. you seem to have done all things i would have checked but i think the real answer is it is windows just waking up
 
Guys, thanks for the suggestions above. I've just completed this: connected the laptop to the router via cable, uninstalled the wifi card from Windows device manager and physically deleted the driver files, re-booted the laptop and Windows went into found new hardware mode. The driver it decided to install is a few years old (2011) BUT things now appear to be sorted.

If I put the computer to sleep by closing the lid or just letting it doze off through inactivity the wifi comes back on almost immediately when I wake it up :banana:

That sounds like a result to me, so cheers for the help (again) :) I'm off for a beer :beer:
 
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