I have an HP Pavilion dv6. When I got it, the first thing I did was to rip out the HD and put in an SSD with a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium on it (only mention this b/c I'm not sure how it worked before this..)
The laptop has been good so far, with one annoying fault. When it wakes up from sleep, the network takes 1-2 minutes to become active. Often while F5-ing a webpage waiting for it to work, it'll work for a second and then drop out again, until eventually it works solid. During this process the system tray icon displays the exclamation mark showing no internet access.
It's sitting on a desk, hard-wired into my network, with a static IP and DNS. I know that the modem itself is working fine b/c other devices will work fine while this is happening.
Device manager shows the network adapter as a Realtek PICe GBE Family Controller and claims the drivers are up-to-date (driver version 7.41.216.2011)
Ideas for troubleshooting?
