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I have a Acer Aspire 4810TG with an Intel 5100AGN wireless card. I've experienced problems with data throughput with Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit and 64 bit versions. Copying a file of 170 MB from my NAS to my laptop took 12 hours! (I cancelled after 10 minutes )
Then I installed Windows XP Professional and everything worked fast and stable. The same 170MB file transferred in around 60 seconds!
I think this shows that the problems with this wireless card are related to poor drivers. The card is physically able to connect and transfer at high speeds.
Maybe Windows 7 and Vista are also to blame. Before the copying starts, a time calculation takes place which takes for ever to finish. After that the actual copying begins.
After spending hours to solve this problem in Windows 7 and Vista, I decided to stay with XP for a couple of months and see how things develop.