Asus B650E-I WiFi slow to connect on fresh boot / wake

Hey folks, I'm hoping someone can help me triage this issue I've had for some time.

Issue: When I turn on my PC from a cold boot, as soon as I login, my WiFi shows the network disconnected icon and sits there for 1+ minutes before it eventually automatically connects. If I click the WiFi icon in the system tray during this period, then the connection triggers faster. Once it's connected, things work fine.

Desired: I'd like to have my WiFi connect almost immediately upon boot/login so that I don't need to manually "nudge" my WiFi to connect?

• OS: Windows 11, 23H2 (latest updates - stable)
• Router / WiFi: Eero 6E Pro Mesh System
• Motherboard: ASUS Rog Strix B650E-I
• WiFi + Driver: Onboard AMD | MediaTek WiFi 6E MT7922 (RZ616)
  • Drivers: 3.3.0.884 (from @MoKiChU )
• Startup Items: 1Password, Windows Security notification icon, MSI Afterburner
• Note: I have hibernation and fast startup disabled

SlowTortoise said:

Hey folks, I'm hoping someone can help me triage this issue I've had for some time.

Issue: When I turn on my PC from a cold boot, as soon as I login, my WiFi shows the network disconnected icon and sits there for 1+ minutes before it eventually automatically connects. If I click the WiFi icon in the system tray during this period, then the connection triggers faster. Once it's connected, things work fine.

Desired: I'd like to have my WiFi connect almost immediately upon boot/login so that I don't need to manually "nudge" my WiFi to connect?

• OS: Windows 11, 23H2 (latest updates - stable)
• Router / WiFi: Eero 6E Pro Mesh System
• Motherboard: ASUS Rog Strix B650E-I
• WiFi + Driver: Onboard AMD | MediaTek WiFi 6E MT7922 (RZ616)
  • Drivers: 3.3.0.884 (from @MoKiChU )
• Startup Items: 1Password, Windows Security notification icon, MSI Afterburner
• Note: I have hibernation and fast startup disabled

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I have the exact same issue. Latest drivers as well as you. Event viewer even throws a buuunch of errors due to no internet connection.

If you do click on the wifi icon it does connect almost instantly, which is annoying.

I noticed as well that, if you're downloading something on steam and doing anything else, browsing becomes slow as hell, which looks to be QOS on this chip is also trash, AX200 had 0 issues, was always performing really well with great latency.

It's really annoying, I'm almost certain it's this stupid chip, we pay a premium for these motherboards only to come with trash wifi / lan chips. My AX200 on my "old" Gigabyte B550i was absolutely flawless and perfect.

Hi,

Did you try to completely uninstall the wifi driver from device manager - do not let windows install some driver itself. You can edit group policy to not let windows include driver updates.

Restart the pc and then reinstall the driver from device manager.

SlowTortoise said:

my WiFi shows the network disconnected icon and sits there for 1+ minutes before it eventually automatically connects

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From my experience it indicated issues communicating with either DHCP or DNS.

Try setting static IP and manual DNS to confirm this is the case, if so then you know what to troubleshoot if you want DHCP to work as it should.

werty said:

Hi,

Did you try to completely uninstall the wifi driver from device manager - do not let windows install some driver itself. You can edit group policy to not let windows include driver updates.

Restart the pc and then reinstall the driver from device manager.

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Windows 11 doesn't have drivers for this chip "MT7922"