Well, I will say that at least thus far things seem to have improved and it seems to correlate with turning off IPv6 in Windows 7. This makes no sense to me at all, yet at least for the time being things seem to have stepped up. I’ll keep tabs on it going forward but I’d like to know what the process is here and why IPv6 doesn’t seem to be an issue with Vista.
I’ve been doing some Googling about IPv6 and it seems that Linksys routers don’t have IPv6 support at the moment and Comcast has not implemented it yet either. Windows OSes after Vista all come with it enabled by default and Linksys routers seem to try and convert it to IPv4. It’s unclear to me why the IPv6 setting on my Vista machine didn’t cause a problem but the Win7 machine did, but my connection seems stable and fast since making that change. Bizarre. Networking is some strange voodoo, let me tell you.
Just checking stuff I’ve seen cause problems before.
Well, as noted it seems to have nailed it. Still baffled why it seems to be fine on the Vista machine and not the Windows 7 machine, but glad it’s solved.