I have been following this thread since early July as originally had same problems with not waking from sleep and random drops. I have an Asus 301LA with Windows 8.1, 64 bit OS. Luckily by removing Intel's excess ProSet and going with bare drivers only with the latest driver 17.1.0.19, I resolved the issues with waking after sleep and random drops, however, what is really strange is that the drivers seem to self-corrupt after a few days (don't know how else to describe what happens). Let me explain. I removed all versions of drivers going through various iterations in Device Manager till I got to the Microsoft drivers. From here I loaded the latest Intel drivers and it worked like a charm, super fast, no connection issues after waking and no drops. The problems I am having now is that after 3 or 4 days use, it progressively slows for loading pages in the browser (requiring multiple loads of page to get it to load) to a point where it becomes too frustrating so I remove drivers and load again. This brings the card back to being super fast, functioning according to its sales propaganda, web pages loading super fast. What is also strange is that when the card is not working properly, if I test download/upload speeds it still registers what it usually does on my home system, but it takes me a while to load the page to run the test. Even when the card is working properly, ping testing sites or my router (50 cycles for example), there will always be 2 or 3 super long lags and the rest good.
Is anyone else experiencing such random "self-corruption" issues which a reload of drivers sorts the issue for some days?