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Network Discovery slow - ish to start
Hi guys
Bit of a weird one. My laptop has a cache SSD in it so it is quite a rapid booter. Nomally logged in from cold boot within 25-30 secs. All the start tray stuff appear pretty instantly. Apart from the wifi network icon! This takes a good 30 seconds at least to either show as connected to my network router. It will often have a yellow exclamation mark during this time and say 'identifying network'. Despite this I can launch Internet Explorer straight away and start browsing. However if I go into network it will say 'network discovery and file sharing is turned off'. Once the network connection finally establishes to show the signal bars then network discovery is fine and all is dandy.
However I am baffled as to why it takes a little while. It has done this in the past and then for no reason quickened up to be pretty muchi nstant as soon as I logged in Until today when it is back to taking a good 30 seconds at least once in the desktop view. I didn't do anything to cause this apart from reboot my router earlier in the day. Susbequent router reboots didn't speed it up. In any case I dont think it is the routers fault as other devices seem to fine. Just this laptop, the only difference being this particular laptop is the centrino 6300 so can use the 5Ghz band of my router - just as it has always done in the past. I did login to the 2.4 ghz part of it too and still the same. I have rebooted the laptop a good few times to see if it improves but so far no better. I guess it will pick up speed at some point like it has before. But it's odd why it happens, why can't network discovery turn on quicker?
Any ideas? Or is it just part of Windows 7 eccentricities?
Cheers
Wayne