Time to go to sleep

my macbook pro takes about fifty seconds to go to sleep, but if i turn off airport it sleeps in ten seconds. any idea why turning off airport speeds up going to sleep. yes i use the wireless to hook up to the internet.

When putting your Mac to sleep, OS X must save the current state of things. If you have a lot of applications running, or if for some other reason the operating system has a lot to keep track of, it could require more time to save that current state.
How much RAM is in your machine? It's possible that virtual memory (swap files) are being used extensively and that also creates overhead for the OS.
If it were mine, I wouldn't worry about it. As long as sleep mode works, I'd be happy to let OS X do it's job and not try to speed it up.
However, as a general rule of my own, more RAM is always better. I have max'd out my new iMac 27 with 16G.
YMMV

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