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Download probs from XP to Win 7
I have an incredibly wierd issue with file sharing from a win xp Home SP3 machine and my brand new Vaio laptop.
The laptop is wirelessly connected via an oldish Netgear Dg834 wifi router, whilst the XP desktop is connected to an ethernet port on this router.
The problem I am having is that whilst I can easily see all of the shared folders on the XP machine all of the time, when I try to download a folder of files such as MP3 or pictures, the download starts okay at say 1mbyte/sec. The speed then decreases and decreases until it is down to a few Kbytes/sec and then eventually I get an error message saying do I want to retry accessing a particular file.
The download 'stalls' randomly and not on any particular file or folder.
I am stumped by this, I have done and checked all of the usual things to do with workgroups and firewall etc etc.
I am now wondering if my old wifi router is not compliant with win 7 in some way. When I had an XP laptop, file sharing in this way was no problem.
Also, internet access on both machines is smokin hot.
Has anyone else come across such an issue or have any advice ?
Last edited by John140; 16 Jan 2010 at 07:24. Reason: additional info