Long time to acquire IP address

I have a VAIO laptop running XP pro with a netgear USB wireless adapter.
When the machine is restarted from hibernation, it takes a long time to
acquire a network address. It finally times-out and I get the "limited
connectivity" error msg. Then it immediately gets an IP address.

I guess there are two routes to go with this problem:

1. Figure out why it's not quickly getting an IP address, or

2. Figure out a way to shorten the time-out so that it will get the IP
address more quickly.

Any ideas appreciated.

"Joe." wrote:
> I have a VAIO laptop running XP pro with a netgear USB wireless adapter.
> When the machine is restarted from hibernation, it takes a long time to
> acquire a network address. It finally times-out and I get the "limited
> connectivity" error msg. Then it immediately gets an IP address.

When it finally gets an ip address, is it a normal one or auto configuration
(169.254.x.x)?

--PA

> I guess there are two routes to go with this problem:
>
> 1. Figure out why it's not quickly getting an IP address, or
>
> 2. Figure out a way to shorten the time-out so that it will get the IP
> address more quickly.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.

It's 255.255.255.0

"(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:

>
> On 1-Jan-2006, "=?Utf-8?B?Sm9lLg==?=" <Joe.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > 1. Figure out why it's not quickly getting an IP address, or
> >
> > 2. Figure out a way to shorten the time-out so that it will get the IP
> > address more quickly.
>
> Not really my area of expertise but it may be searching a local
> network domain range, and if the subnet mask is
> 255.0.0.0 instead of 255.255.255.0 this can take a while.
> Get Ethereal packet monitor and set it to monitor pkts
> on the wireless adapter to see what is going on.
> Also look at network log in XP admin tools, there might
> be error messages, failed something or other.
>

Normal.

"Pavel A." wrote:

> "Joe." wrote:
> > I have a VAIO laptop running XP pro with a netgear USB wireless adapter.
> > When the machine is restarted from hibernation, it takes a long time to
> > acquire a network address. It finally times-out and I get the "limited
> > connectivity" error msg. Then it immediately gets an IP address.
>
> When it finally gets an ip address, is it a normal one or auto configuration
> (169.254.x.x)?
>
> --PA
>
> > I guess there are two routes to go with this problem:
> >
> > 1. Figure out why it's not quickly getting an IP address, or
> >
> > 2. Figure out a way to shorten the time-out so that it will get the IP
> > address more quickly.
> >
> > Any ideas appreciated.