Huh, interesting. I have my Mac set up to require a password coming out of sleep. 90% of the time, by the time I've typed my password and hit enter, not only am I reconnected to my wifi network, but even Adium has had time to reconnect me to GTalk and finish fetching online contacts. It's amazing. When I'm in Linux I can't do anything with the network for a good 15 seconds after unlocking my screen.
I don't usually have a password requirement, so I have that much longer to notice it. But even when I did have a setup like yours, it doesn't take me that long to type brandy6 and hit enter. I'd still ending noticing a wait.
Huh, I wonder if there are just differences in the wifi chipsets and/or between the router(s) you and I have used that make the wait longer or shorter. Weird.
