Why does Windows take so much time to connect to a wifi network?

Question

My Windows 7 laptop takes 1-2 minutes to connect to a wifi network. As a college student, my laptop goes in and out of sleep multiple times throughout the day. Having to wait a few minutes for internet each time I open it is getting annoying.

This happens when connected whether or not the power cable is plugged in.

Solution

EDIT: I'm still experiencing the same problem with this service enabled and running

Found the answer here

This is for XP/Vista,but hopefully ,7 will be similar.

You would be looking for wlan/or wzc AND some d-link wireless manager manager associated with the wireless card running simultaneously.

Check your Services are Started on all PCs: • COM+ Event System (for WZC issues)
• Computer Browser
• DHCP Client
• DNS Client
• Network Connections
• Network Location Awareness
• Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
• Server
• TCP/IP Netbios helper
• Wireless Zero Configuration (XP wireless configurations)
• WLAN AutoConfig (Vista wireless configurations) This would be the Vista default wireless manager,for example.
• Workstation

Note: You can check the services in Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services.

All of these services should be started, and their startup type should be automatic (or perhaps manual).

If a service is not running, open it's properties and check the dependencies. Check each of the dependencies and see which one is preventing the service from running. Checking the event log is also a good idea here, there may be clues to what is failing.

For me, it was simply a matter of starting the Computer Browser service and setting it to start automatically.

Comments

[Admin]

@up yep, don't fix the problem, just throw this away and give a bunch ones to yourself free! Damn, thats good...

[Admin]

More information is required. Are you allowing Windows to manage your wireless connection or using third-party software to do it?

[Admin]

Switch off the wireless router and switch it on.

[Admin]

If you connect to a network using an Ethernet cable, are you able to connect to a network right away? If not, you're not experiencing a Wi-Fi issue at all.

[DrColossos]

This answer could be improved by explaining how to do that.