Resuming from sleep - network issues

[Eckless]

WOL (Wake on LAN) works on my machine. I'm thrilled.

One problem left -- when my computer comes out of S3 sleep, the internet connection is slow to get past "Identifying..." phase. It takes about 30 seconds to get to "Connected".

This becomes annoying because when I try to use my Xbox extender to get to my WMC, it gets stuck on "Finding PC..." and eventually gives me the "try again?" screen.

Eventually, my computer gets its internet connection and the Xbox extender goes on its way.

But is there a way to trim down that 30 second delay? Windows 7 didn't have this problem.

I have two NICs in my computer (one Intel PCIE card, another on-board Realtek) and switching to a different NIC didn't solve the problem. I also don't have this problem when turning the computer on "from scratch" (compared to "from sleep").

Any ideas?

Thank you!
Eckless

[Tester]

Have U tried to manually assign a network IP and your provider's DNS IPs ? This helps me to get my nics to quickly sync.
Although I have win8 on a temporary setup, I have not seen this issue so not sure why there is such difference between 7 and 8.

[foxwood]

I'd also try disabling IPv6, to see if that makes a difference.

[barnabas1969]

I had this problem once. It turned out to be a failing network switch.

[Eckless]

Thank you for the suggestions!

Turns out Tester's solution got me where I needed to be -- I assigned a static IP address on my computer (not "assign the computer's IP address" via my router, which I had been doing)...I don't quite understand the difference, but it works now.

Again, thank you all for the suggestions!
Eckless