does your onboard NIC take awhile to obtain an IP address?

[BlahBlahYouToo]

biostar Z68 mb. realtek GB NIC.
When booting or resuming from sleep, it takes about 20-30 seconds to lease an IP address.
not sure if this is the OS, the NIC, the drivers, the motherboard...

 

[VirtualLarry]

That happens on my Foxconn 780G board, with (I think) Realtek NIC.

I have two other boards, Gigabyte P35 boards with Realtek Gigabit NICs, and they don't exhibit any delay.

It could be related to your router too.

 

[corkyg]

I had an old router - about 4-5 years old. It started taking a long time, and also started losing the connection frequently. Replaced it with a new one and it is like night and day.

 

[mfenn]

Nope, it works fine (also realtek). A lot of it has to do with how long of a lease your DHCP server is configured to give out and how long the machine has been asleep.