So I've encountered something I think is quite strange.

At home, both my desktop and laptop connect to the internet via wifi. My desktop seems to maintain a constant connection to airport. If I leave my desktop for several hours and then come back to it, it wakes up and has immediate access to the internet.

laptops, if I even close the cover for a couple seconds and then reopen it, the connectivity to wifi/internet gets interrupted, almost as if the Laptop severs the connection and then reconnects when the cover is opened, which seems to take between 5-10 seconds.

So my question is, if both computers are wifi and both go to sleep and are then woken up, then why does the laptop need to reconnect to wifi while the desktop maintains it's steady connection?

I assume that laptops may have some sort of power saving, cut off. But I think it also happens when laptops are plugged in A/C..

Any ideas why this happens? Is it possible to reconfig laptops to maintain wifi connectivity even when the lid closes?

Thanks.
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