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DMA2100 under Win7

Ryland

Ryland

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There are a few threads on the Linksys support forums about people having issues with Linksys extenders and Win7. Has anybody on here had success getting an extender to work under Win7
 
Had no trouble at all. Works great 🙂 Win 7 Ultimate and a DMA2100.

It wasn't so great over wifi (seems to not be able to eclipse 150mbit instead of 300, and thus slowed my other wireless client down too...and since they had to communicate with each other via wifi, some HD channels would get stuttery), but I wired it and it's flawless.
 
Well I am currently using wifi with my extender to my vista box. Were there any downloads you needed to get it to work?
 
Nope, just paired them and it worked. Wireless in one direction may be fine for HDTV, but wireless on both devices was enough to stop it from working 100%. To qualify that, I mean, Comcast sent stations like HGTV at lower bitrates than stations like Fox. HGTV would play fine, Fox would stutter. Once I got them off wifi, it was flawless.
 
My computer is hardwired to a gigabit router. Its only my extender which is wireless and it works fine under Vista so it sounds like it may continue to work. Thanks!
 
My HGTV/Fox example was HD content. I have not attempted Netflix over the extender as I did not believe it worked. SD content was absolutely fine with wireless on both source/destination.

I have two cablecard tuners and it was no different with live/recorded HDTV content. It came down to bitrate and the extender tried quite valiantly to continue playing the streams that were too much for it (in the wifi on both ends scenario). When I looked on my router at the connection speeds, downstairs and upstairs (media center/extender respectively) were both connecting at 120 and nothing else N would connect any higher either. When I changed the extender to wired, downstairs jumped to 240-270 and the N laptops in the house got back into the 200s, so the extender was definitely slowing down the network.
 
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