danP25 wrote:[color=blue]
> When I wakeup my computer after Vista has been asleep, my internet connection
> is significantly slower. For example, pages that would normally take 1-2
> seconds to load take 10-20 seconds and images are always very slow to load.
>
> The problem can be reproduced without fail. After a restart the speeds are
> what I would expect. Put the machine into sleep mode, then wake it back up,
> and suddenly my transfer speed seems to be 1KB/sec (when viewing the status
> of the connection).
>
> The strange part is that if I restart the computer the sluggishness
> disappears and everything is back to normal. As far as I can tell, I get no
> errors when returning from sleep mode. My network controller isn't set to go
> to sleep ever, either. I have the newest network and motherboard drivers. I
> have no idea what could be causing this degradation.
>
> In addition, it seems that changing any setting (it doesn't matter which, it
> could be something completely unrelated like a logging setting) on the
> network controller in device manager usually causes the network card to
> behave normally afterward. I'm assuming that this is because the card has to
> reinitialize.
>
> Here's the relevant items, I think:
> Windows Vista Ultimate
> Gigabyte 965G-DS3 motherboard with a Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit
> Ethernet Controller
>
> The problem occurs when using the newest Marvell drivers provided by
> Gigabyte, or even when using the newest ones from Marvell's website.
>
> I don't think it's a network or router issue because other computers on my
> network don't show the same slow speeds.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.[/color]

Have you asked Gigabyte about this? They may know what settings to alter
to get the NIC working properly after resuming.