WLAN (Intel 6200) taking too long to acquire a connection after waking up the computer

I have been having this problem for quite a long time now, whereas I am quite sure it wasn't like that at the beginning.

Every time I wake up the pc from sleep mode, it takes up to 2-3 minutes for the Intel 6200 WLAN to connect to my router. Forcing it to do so manually isn't much faster.

I am using the latest drivers available - 14.0.2.2
"Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" is off.

Any suggestions!?

I found a similar thread but no solution there either: http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell-xps-studio-xps/518955-intel-6200-slow-acquire-connection.html

 

Wasn't there a warning on the intel site for 6200 not to go to 14? I'm on 13.5.0.6 and having no problems. Have you tried rolling back? I thought 14 and up was only applicable to 6205 and higher (including 6300s)

 

The driver is officially released for 6200... I see no logic in releasing something and then warning not to be installed. Apart from that I have no other issues with 14, but I will try with and see if it solves this issue.

 

Just tried with 13.4.0.9 - same behavior.

 

Hmmm, any change in your BIOS since things used to work better?

 

No. Can't be the BIOS.

So how does it work on your PC? How long does it take for you to have WLAN internet after waking up the pc?

 

Have you tried official Sony drivers? And wasn't there a known issue with certain Intel WLAN chips and this exact same issue? Disable sleep?

 

I could try with the last driver announced by Sony but I am skeptic...
If there is a such issue, it certainly isn't known by me, so if you have any link regarding this - let me know.
"Disable sleep?" - not sure I know what you mean.

 

I have seen this issue too (and not specific to the Intel 6200).

Gracy, when you do a cold boot or reboot, does it connect quickly? The last few builds I have done seem to have taken the time the WLan connects into the minute or two range from a cold boot or reboot.

What is interesting though is that something like the Adobe Flash updater will be able to connect to the net - even while the the Network icon on the bottom right is showing 'trying to connect with network'.

The worst part is that this not only affects most internet related tasks - it effectively 'freezes' (except for the Adobe updater, as noted) the whole system.

So far, I have found no relief for this (I think one of the Windows Updates (Win7x64 Ultimate) has borked this previously 'instant' connection) - and this is with HDD's or SSD's as the boot devices.

Hope we can track down the cause of this behavior.

 

Yes. exactly. I figured out Adobe does not connect but has collected the information about an update before the last restart and just suggests to install it while the system is freshly started. Usually if I agree before the connection is established it fails to download it...

After reboot WLAN seems to connect quicker, but it is hard to tell as the system is loading many stuff at the same time and this affects it as well.

The thing is I am almost sure that the WLAN connection used to be instantly available after waking up a few months ago. This changed somehow...

 

Okay, so it seems like we are talking about the same thing. And I agree it was 'instant' a few months ago too.

Does anyone have any other insight to this issue or better yet a solution?

 

My connection is pretty much instantaneous. Less than 10 seconds for me assumig its on a saved network.

 

odd

 

Gracy123, are you also running Intel RST drivers (I'm running the latest 10.6 version)?

Maybe NotEnoughMinerals is running 'stock' SATA drivers?

 

Yes, also running the 10.6.0.2 RST drivers.

 

I'm running 10.6.0.1022 RST drivers

 

Hrm well my T410s Intel 6200 connects immediately after sleep. Running on stock Lenovo drivers.

 

Both my laptops running 6200 connect immediately at home whether from a cold boot, sleep, hibernate or restart. Latest Intel drivers installed on the G73 and 13.5.0.6 on the N50.

 

getting stranger and stranger...

 

Perhaps you have a bum WLAN card? Have you tried a known good working one? Have you reinstalled Windows?

 

I had this issue with the 6205 in my X220. It's some Windows issue. Everything was working fine, then suddenly despite nothing changed or new installed, the machine started taking forever to connect coming out of sleep or hibernation. Restoring an earlier backup image fixed the issue. Something changed or got corrupted in Win somehow, don't know what.

 

Run "services.msc" scroll down and check if VAIO Event Service ,VAIO Power Management and WLAN AutoConfig are set to Automatic and not Automatic (Delayed start) or any other option.

Then go to Control Panel --> Device Manager --> Network adapters --> Intel WiFi Link. Right click on Intel WiFi Link and choose Properties then choose the Advanced tab from the top.

The settings on my VAIO are:
802.11n Channel Width for band 2.4 --- set value is 20 MHz Only
802.11n Channel Width for band 5.2 --- Auto
802.11n Mode --- Enabled
Ad Hoc Channel 802.11b/g --- 11
Ad Hoc Default Wireless Mode --- 0. 802.11b/g
Ad Hoc Poer Management --- Disabled
Ad Hoc Qos Mode --- WMM Disabled
Fat Channel Intolerant --- Disabled
Mixed Mode Protection --- CTS-to-self Enabled
Roaming Aggressivness --- 3. Medium
Throughput Enhancement --- Disabled
Transmit Power --- 5. Highest
Wireless Mode --- 3. 802.11g (you can select 6. and your laptop will see the a/b networks also, they're too slow I don't want them displayed, those are usually the free WiFi hotspots)

It should take like 3 to 4 seconds to auto-connect from sleep.

 

both of us? and both from a certain moment of time on? and both are only "bum" in this specific task? I don't think so. I use WLAN 24/7, never have any other issue.

It looks to me like a driver/software bug.

 

Vaio Power Management was set to Manual, but this did not fix the problem. tried your device settings to but without any effect :-/

 

Try to create a diff wifi network along with a diff password.

Then right click on it, choose Properties then Connection tab and check Connect automatically when this network is in range. Don't check anything else other than that.

 

Didn't help either :-/

 

I also don't have any such problem. I'm running 13.5.06 and i get connection on saved network in 10s. IMO , your'e card is probably faulty. Try getting your hand on another one and then see. Otherwise , must be a Laptop issue.

 

I still leaning to a rogue Windows Update (something past SP1...) along with Intel RST drivers...

Hmmm. more data points:

Tried re-installing Windows (clean) half a dozen times - no dice. After a while, the issue would be present, again.

Gracy123, do you also have Roxio 2011 installed too? It seemed like many times, right after I installed that software the issue would surface soon after (but not always then...).

 

I am 100% sure it is not a hardware issue. Nearly 20 years experience with computers - that I know! It is either a driver issue/conflict or even more likely - windows update or service or something.

I have always had Roxio Easy Media Creator 10 LJ - an older version that comes with the preinstalled image of the system - so I can't trace it back to it. Can't be it.

 

Gracy123, I agree it would seem wrong for it to be a hardware issue.

Interesting that you are running Roxio though - could Roxio, IRST and WU have come together to create this perfect storm for us?

 

Latest driver is Intel PROSet/Wireless WiFi 14.2.0.10 WHQL
Link: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&keyword="proset"

 

We already knew it wasnt the wireless driver.

I'm thinking it's a service you've set to manual rather than automatic.

As for windows updates, the only one thats network related that I've ever refused up until now was a Realtek - Network - Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller update.

 

I too have some interesting data to contribute to this thread:

My T500 with the Intel 5300 ABGN has, in Vista and my previous W7 clean install, connected instantly after sleep and on fresh start (before I finish typing my password when resuming from sleep). After my reformat a month ago, however, it's been taking a while to acquire the connection automatically, usually around 1 minute. Doing it manually doesn't speed things up. Funnily enough, my wired connection exhibits the same behavior.

Additionally, my X120e, with a Realtek BGN card and running a clean install of W7, has had this issue since I bought it and clean-installed. After I removed and then installed the latest drivers for it, however, the issue disappeared: it now picks up connections very quickly, unless signal is weak (but that's a Realtek card issue, not software).

I'm led to believe this is some sort of driver issue, but removing the drivers and reinstalling hasn't fixed it on my T500 yet.

 

I don't think anybody changes the behavior of starting a service without knowing what he's doing!

 

With the computer proficiency of tiller and gracy, yea I doubt they would do that. But you never know, sometimes the race for faster startup times compromises other things.

 

Then, there's no reason not to try the latest driver for the WLAN adapter.

 

yes. just updated the driver. no difference

 

I believe I just solved the problem!!

I uninstalled the WLAN driver and chose to delete it as well. I did that 3-4 times, thus rolling back to e previous version, until I stripped it down to 0, restarting after each uninstallation. At the end I clean-installed the latest driver 14.2.0.10, restarted and configured the WLAN profile.

Now it works like a charm! After waking up, the WLAN connection is INSTANTLY there - not even a second pending time. :yes:

tilleroftheearth try that and let me know if it worked for you too!?

Quite a basic procedure, I just never took the time to do it as I thought the problem is somewhere else.

 

That might be the solution, my 6200 connects instantly, but I just did a clean install and installed the latest drivers directly due to installing a SSD. Before, i was running on version 13.something without any problems.

 

Gracy123, I will have a chance to do that later tonight (on two different systems too) will update everyone here soon.

Thanks.

 

Congrats. I also used to start instantly but just now from sleep it took 20s to get connection... wth...

 

try doing what I do and let us know if it helped

It is really instant now - once the desktop shows the connection is already there and available Love it

 

Hi All,
I had the same problem (1 min plus to connect after resume from sleep) with my Intel 6200 AGN on my laptop (and also on my netbook which has an atheros WIFI Adapter).
I fixed it by removing the Windows Virtual WIFI Adapter:

1) Go to Control Panel -> System and Secuity -> Device Manager -> Network Adapters
2) Disable "Microsoft Virtual WIFI Adapter"
3) Now tell Windows that you DO NOT want to share the physical WIFI adapter
3) Uninstall the virtual adapter permanently. See:

HELP! Microsoft Virtual Wifi Miniport Adapter driver problem - Microsoft Answers

In short run a cmd box as Administrator and paste in the commands:

netsh wlan stop hostednetwork
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=disallow

4) Go back to step 1) and instead of step 2) unintall the Virtual WIFI Adapter.
5) Reboot Windows and the adapter will be gone. Now check resume from sleep. It should reconnect within a couple of secs. Tested this on both of my machines and it works fine.

The virtual adapter is used to share your WIFI so its ok if you don't.

Also, before I fixed this I noticed that my netbook was showing a gold star in the WIFI icon even though it was connected. Normally it would show the signal strength. I fixed this by disabling the Microsoft WIFI Adapter, so that it again showed the signal strength. This is before I moved to to removing the virtual adapter.

PS, I am using version 14.2.0.10 of the Intel Centrino 6200 AGN driver.

I hope this helps ...

Regards

 

Hi All,
I had the same problem (1 min plus to connect after resume from sleep) with my Intel 6200 AGN on my laptop (and also on my netbook which has an atheros WIFI Adapter).
I fixed it by removing the Windows Virtual WIFI Adapter:

1) Go to Control Panel -> System and Secuity -> Device Manager -> Network Adapters
2) Disable "Microsoft Virtual WIFI Adapter"
3) Now tell Windows that you DO NOT want to share the physical WIFI adapter
3) Uninstall the virtual adapter permanently. See:

HELP! Microsoft Virtual Wifi Miniport Adapter driver problem - Microsoft Answers

In short run a cmd box as Administrator and paste in the commands:

netsh wlan stop hostednetwork
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=disallow

4) Go back to step 1) and instead of step 2) unintall the Virtual WIFI Adapter.
5) Reboot Windows and the adapter will be gone. Now check resume from sleep. It should reconnect within a couple of secs. Tested this on both of my machines and it works fine.

The virtual adapter is used to share your WIFI so its ok if you don't.

Also, before I fixed this I noticed that my netbook was showing a gold star in the WIFI icon even though it was connected. Normally it would show the signal strength. I fixed this by disabling the Microsoft WIFI Adapter, so that it again showed the signal strength. This is before I moved to to removing the virtual adapter.

PS, I am using version 14.2.0.10 of the Intel Centrino 6200 AGN driver.

I hope this helps ...

Regards

 

I have a Intel 5200 AGN and in my Device Manager appears no Virtual WiFi Adapter.
Could it be this is because after the first connect to my WLAN I specified that I'm on a public network?

 

benny1234,

Thanks for the useful post!

Even though I am using an Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter in my Asus U30Jc notebook - and - when I start Windows (or reboot, for that matter) the Network Icon is a blue circle... (using an Intel SSD, btw...).

I can still get on the internet immediately (while the blue circle is spinning) as soon as my desktop 'shows'. And, I can access/run any program I want to too (this was not the case previously...).

This is by simply running the following commands:

netsh wlan stop hostednetwork
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=disallow

and rebooting.

Even though I don't have (nor did I have) a Wireless Virtual Adaptor.

So Thank You once again.

The system may still look the same (still takes about a minute or so for the network to connect 'officially'), but at least I am able to use the computer as soon as I can see the desktop.

+rep!

 

Is it an Intel 5300 AGN? It may not have the latest drivers that support the Virtual WIFI. See

Latest Intel drivers add Windows 7 Virtual WiFi support – istartedsomething

 

As indicated below to maximinimaus the version of Atheros drivers may not support Virtual WIFI.
I had some fun and games with my Atheros WIFI netbook. Its an Aspire D260 but came with driver version 9.0.0.173. This caused all sorts of problems (errors with missing DLLs, crashes, unstable etc). I found more recent drivers at a Toshiba site:

Toshiba Wireless Connection Portal:

(Atheros don't seem to publish the drivers!!!!!)

I downloaded version 9.2.0.419.0 from the tosh site. Extracted, but did not run steup (because it contains updates for the tosh laptop), and ran the atheros setup program in one of the subdirectories of the install package after I unpacked it to disk.

This cleared up all my WIFI problems (Windows Event log problems went away as well) and now my D260 connects as soon as it resumes from sleep. Maybe this is why you see the spinning blue icon? Anyway it works very well now.

Best of Luck.

Regards

 

PS, my D260 is Windows 7 Start edition

 

benny1234,

thanks for the additional info and link - but I couldn't upgrade my Atheros wireless with those drivers (I had high hopes!).

No matter, the notebook is still responsive right after bootup, so I'm still good!