Vista - Vista Sleep / Hibernate and Internet Connection Problem

Several weeks ago I bought an Acer laptop with Vista Home Premium
preinstalled. The laptop came with intergated b/g wireless LAN and I always
get "excellent" signal strength from my router. However, I am noticing the
signal drops to "fair" and sometimes "poor" whenever the laptop wakes up from
hibernate or sleep mode. Anyone has this problem and/or solutions? Thanks!

You should close the Internet connection before using Sleep and reconnect
when it wakes.

"Chai" wrote:

> Several weeks ago I bought an Acer laptop with Vista Home Premium
> preinstalled. The laptop came with intergated b/g wireless LAN and I always
> get "excellent" signal strength from my router. However, I am noticing the
> signal drops to "fair" and sometimes "poor" whenever the laptop wakes up from
> hibernate or sleep mode. Anyone has this problem and/or solutions? Thanks!

Mary, thanks for your suggestion. I tried disconnecting my laptop from
network prior to putting it to Sleep. But when it woke up and reconnected to
the network, I still got a "fair" signal strength. What made it worse was
that, although I could connect to the network", I couldn't connect to the
internet at all - just "local" only.

All and all, I still need to restart the machine everytime it wakes up from
Sleep mode in order to regain full signal strength. I am now beginning to
think Vista Sleep mode is a useless feature, at least for my machine, and
better off shutting the laptop down. Just my $.02.

"Mary" wrote:

> You should close the Internet connection before using Sleep and reconnect
> when it wakes.
>
> "Chai" wrote:
>
> > Several weeks ago I bought an Acer laptop with Vista Home Premium
> > preinstalled. The laptop came with intergated b/g wireless LAN and I always
> > get "excellent" signal strength from my router. However, I am noticing the
> > signal drops to "fair" and sometimes "poor" whenever the laptop wakes up from
> > hibernate or sleep mode. Anyone has this problem and/or solutions? Thanks!

"Chai" wrote:

> Several weeks ago I bought an Acer laptop with Vista Home Premium
> preinstalled. The laptop came with intergated b/g wireless LAN and I always
> get "excellent" signal strength from my router. However, I am noticing the
> signal drops to "fair" and sometimes "poor" whenever the laptop wakes up from
> hibernate or sleep mode. Anyone has this problem and/or solutions? Thanks!

I had a similar problem with my PC/Vista and adsl router, once I updated the
Forceware (nvidia) which included my onboard network drivers it was okay, and
hasn't lost the connection since.

Check with the manufacturer of your network card for an updated vista
driver, it might help.