wifi groggy after waking up

[ecarl65]

I've done a search, and I couldn't find examples of exactly this problem. On my laptop running Linux Mint 18.2 KDE version I find that the OS successfully can sleep and wake up, which is a great start. When it comes back from sleep at first there are no connections shown, and it takes a bit to reconnect to wifi. That's all understandable in coming back from sleep. The bigger problem, however, is that even when it reconnects to wifi the connection is then unusably slow until I reboot. It says it's connected, I can even look at the traffic and every once in a while it goes from 0 B/s up and down to an occasional 1 B/s up or down. But that's as high as it goes. Trying to get to any website at all or do anything over the network is prohibitively slow. Any ideas? For what it's worth here's what I grabbed from sudo lshw in regards to networking stuff.

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           *-network
                description: Wireless interface
                product: RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter
                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
                logical name: wlo1
                version: 01
                serial: c8:ff:28:b9:60:c5
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
                configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8188ee driverversion=4.10.0-40-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.131 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
                resources: irq:131 ioport:4000(size=256) memory:a1100000-a1103fff
        *-pci:2
             description: PCI bridge
             product: Intel Corporation
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
             version: f1
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:124 ioport:3000(size=4096) memory:a1000000-a10fffff
           *-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
                logical name: eno1
                version: 0a
                serial: 70:5a:0f:19:28:4c
                size: 10Mbit/s
                capacity: 100Mbit/s
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8107e-2_0.0.2 02/26/15 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
                resources: irq:128 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:a1004000-a1004fff memory:a1000000-a1003fff

[kilowatt2]

I have the same problem on my laptop. If that occurs I open a terminal window then tyoe:

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sudo service network-manager restart

You could create a desktop launcher to do this also:

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xterm -e sudo service network-manager restart

or whatever terminal you wish to use.