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    Why my DV6T takes like a min to connect to my wireless router after sleep

    Discussion in 'HP' started by myrcgarage, Sep 14, 2011.

  1. myrcgarage

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    I have the Intel 1000 BGN card. It takes a long time to connect to wifi after it is out of sleep - more like 30+ secs. Is it normal or there is something I can tweak? My old laptop took no time at all to connect.

    Thanks
     
    myrcgarage, Sep 14, 2011
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    The 1000 BGN is an awful card.
     
    hockeymass, Sep 14, 2011
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    Did you buy a different card and installed it with a modded bios?

    But did you experience this problem with the 1000?
     
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    Yes and yes.

    My 1000 would disconnect and reconnect every few minutes for no apparent reason, and I would have to manually reconnect it and run the wireless troubleshooter every time I woke it up. I eventually got fed up and just replaced it.
     
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    Can I just get any wifi card and work with the current BIOS?
     
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    No, there is a very restrictive "whitelist" in the BIOS.
     
    wittynorseman, Sep 15, 2011
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    Like wittynorseman said, the only wifi card that works with stock F.1A is the 1000 BGN. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered flashing the modded BIOS :D
     
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    With the 1000, did you use WEP or WPA for wireless security?
     
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    WPA2, WEP is old school.
     
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    Hockeymass, how long does it take your killer card to connect after sleep?
     
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    Basically instant. I have a fingerprint swipe on resume from sleep, and it's connected by the time I've done that. I've been nothing but thrilled with this card.
     
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    Ya I'm considering upgrading my card too cause I'm quite disappointed with the one it comes with. Any reason you decided to go with the killer wireless-n 1102 instead of the killer wireless-n 1103?
     
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    The only difference between the 1102 and 1103 is the fact that the 1103 has 3 antenna connections to the 1102's 2. Since the dv6t is only wired for 2 antennas, the 1103 would just have been a waste of money :D
     
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    Is it coming out of sleep or hibernate?

    How long really is "like a minute?"
     
    wittynorseman, Sep 15, 2011
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    It is coming out of sleep and it takes at least 45 secs to connect to my router. However, if I do a cold boot, it connects right away. I think it is a driver issue, but I just updated the driver to the latest (May 2011) and there is no change.

    How long does it take for yours to reconnect out of sleep?
     
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    The two dv6tqe I have wake from sleep near instantly, I know this because when I leave an audio stream open it starts only a second after I wake the machine.

    My access point
    Linksys E3000 (DD-WRT v24-sp2)
    Mixed Mode (B/G/N)
    WPA2 Personal (AES)

    Try connecting to your AP unsecured only to see if that makes a difference.
     
    wittynorseman, Sep 15, 2011
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    Did you do a Minimum System Recovery when you first got your laptop?
     
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    I did in fact do Minimum System Recovery from discs created after unboxing the laptops.
     
    wittynorseman, Sep 16, 2011
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    It is very strange. I did the following: removing the wireless profile and recreate a new one. When I did that, it reconnected it within a sec. Something is not waking up and it took over 45 secs to wake up. I don't know what it is. I am tempted to do the Minimum System Recovery again to see if it has problem from the beginning, or one of my software or updates is causing problem.
     
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    I redid a minimum system restore and everything seems to be fine now. wifi was connected right away. Something must have gone with the original installation.
     
    myrcgarage, Sep 16, 2011
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