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Hi,
I wanted to add to the list of people having problems with windows 7 networking. I have an nVidia motherboard with a realtek onboard 10/100/1000 NIC. The connection appears fine when initially plugged in, however, if left idle for a period of time or if a large file transfer is initiated, the connection will die. If you look at the icon, it still appears to be 'connected' however, there is no packet traffic.
In response to this, I pulled a USB wifi stick from another Vista machine. The linksys stick was working fine, associated with the same router, on the vista machine. Installation went smoothly on the windows 7 machine, it identified the USB stick and auto-installed the drivers (I checked to make sure windows update didn't have anything more recent). However, the USB stick was showing similar issues in dropping connections. The only difference appears to be that sometimes, the connection icon shows a yellow exclamation mark, before turning to the 'no bars red x' icon.
I've disabled all power-saving associated with both the wired and wireless connections. I've turned off IPv6. I've tried both dynamic and static network settings. Nothing seems to impact the fact that copying a 100mb file over my network, from my windows home server to the windows 7 box, always kills the network connection. The seven other PCs in the house all complete the transfer without a hitch. The current windows 7 box could previously complete the transfer under vista...
I'll post log-files and more technical details before the end of the weekend... I just wanted to throw in my two cents.