Is it actually going to sleep after 5 minutes?

If so it'll drop the connection and then it might take a moment to reconnect to your router when you wake it again.

Otherwise I had a similar problem where it'd drop the connection and then refuse to reconnect. It was something to do with a difference in the country the MB thought it was in compared to the router (everything was fine with the old but slow router). My router is made by a French company so it naturally thought it was in France. Then - apparently - it's very difficult for a laptop to determine where it is in the world and it guesses wrong really quite often. I think it depended which channel the router was on and so I think I had to switch the router to another channel (

Posted By: BerlinCanary on August 26th 2013 at 16:40:21

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any macbook geeks about? (General Chat) - Tombs, Aug 26, 16:25:39
- Is it actually going to sleep after 5 minutes? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Aug 26, 16:40:21
  - I've remembered my exact problem! (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Aug 26, 18:21:38
  - hmm, could be that (General Chat) - Tombs, Aug 26, 16:52:28
  - I was going to suggest switching the router to another channel but (General Chat) - Pixelman, Aug 26, 16:45:02
    - *boooooooooom* (General Chat) - Tombs, Aug 26, 16:54:04
      - Changing the channel is simple enough and easily reversible (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Aug 26, 18:12:47
      - I hear you (n/m) (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Aug 26, 17:52:19
- when the first suggested solution in Google is on Mumsnet you know you are in trouble. (n/m) (General Chat) - Pixelman, Aug 26, 16:39:32
- Do a smell uo the USB (General Chat) - strap_on sally, Aug 26, 16:35:37
  - tut tut... he's already donutt innit. (n/m) (General Chat) - Pixelman, Aug 26, 16:38:01
    - Not smelly enough (n/m) (General Chat) - strap_on sally, Aug 26, 16:52:42

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