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Sony Vaio Windows 7 Wireless Boot Time

I have Sony Vaio running Windows 7 Ultimate Edition. I am running Linksys E3000 wireless router. Everytime I boot my laptop, my wireless connection takes approximately 80 seconds to connect. Sometimes I have seen longer. There are no startup programs that runs in the background.

I do have VMware Workstation installed and yest, I do have virtual network connections for VM but they don't load on startup. All VM services are disabled.

It is annoying that I have to almost wait for 90 seconds for wireless to connect to wireless router and the icons to stabalize in system tray.

Any help is appreciated to speed up this process.

John Griffith

Try Ethernet connection - see if Internet connects immediately.

Do you have a Wireless Manager installed? Or are you using Windows Zero Configuration?
I've seen some new laptops recently that include OEM wifi manager - unnecessary w/ Windows 7.

If wifi Mgr installed - uninstall it.

What wifi device do you have?
Check Device Manager.

naveencnair

Is it happening with all the Laptops connected to the same wifi or only in the Vaio ?

kaushalk

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No wireless manager has been installed. I have Atheros AR9285 wireless network adapter.

kaushalk

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I only have 1 laptop connecting. I used to have Vaio before too but never had this latency problem in the past. I don't have that old Vaio anymore.

naveencnair

Can you disable the Wifi security, put the wifi channel selection in Auto and see.

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kaushalk

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ded9...

Going through msconfig worked for me. Nothing critical was under startup tab so I left it alone. Under services tab, I followed your directions and now it takes 4 seconds to connect.

Great improvement. Excellent suggestion. Thanks