Vista slow to reconnect network after sleep

I have a whitebox with an AMD Athlon 3000+ processor and an Asus K8U-X
mainboard. I'm running Windows Vista Premium x64. Very often, though not
completely consistently, when waking from sleep the computer will not
connect to the network for several minutes; I know the network is
running because my Macs can access it (including networked printers and
the Internet) immediately.

I have turned the power saving options off, except for turning video
off after 30 minutes. It still exhibits this problem. Thinking it was
the nVidia NIC on the mainboard, I installed a Netgear NIC, but it
exhibits the same problem. I have Windows Update turned on, and all
hardware drivers are the most recent.

Has anyone had a similar problem that they fixed? Next I'll try turning
off monitor sleep, and hope that I remember to shut it off manually when
leaving. I'd turn the computer off completely, but Vista takes so long
to boot that it'd be inconvenient.


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ClemSnide

Just to let you know, I posted this message -once-. That much of
newbie to the Internet I'm not

Evidently someone found it important enough to repeat four times.
guess solutions in the Vista world are rare enough so that we need tha
inflation! The biggest remaining problem is how Vista will get into
state where everything, including the Task Manager, become
non-responsive. If we ever come up with a fix for that, go ahead an
repeat it a dozen times-- it'll be that important

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ClemSnide

I am not having this problem although it does take about 30 seconds for my wireless connection to get reestablished after sleep. During that time, firefox is the most active process. What about yours?