Currently on 17.0.6 and my connection is fine (with respect to waking from sleep; just enabled the 'Allow the computer to turn this device off' option in the device settings).
The issue I'm having with 17.0.6, and all the other drivers released after that, is serious throughput (speed) variances. In all cases I cannot get over 20Mbps, and this being a work machine with video conference streaming, it buffers far too many times even at 720p video calls.
Might try 16.10 as mentioned above and see how that fares but I'm not holding my breath (Intel, it's been over a year for the 7k cards, and longer than that for the 6k variants; what's the latest update?)