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http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general...
Wow - all that and you did not do the troubleshooting. I did not say
anything was wrong with your router - it is the configuration I think is not
done right.
As for Windows 7 being Vista x.1, that is an opinion really. I know I do
not run Vista on anything and did not run ME on anything either. Doesn't
mean your question is relevant here. Just because there are similarities
does not mean there aren't enough differences your query would be relevant
here.
There were plenty of Windows XP groups that you could have chosen and a few
minutes of research on the Internet would have found the Microsoft Answers
forums with Windows 7 groups galore. Searches in this very newsgroup would
have found those and the alt. Windows 7 newsgroup and a free server to use
to connect to it. ;-)
If Pinging on your own local area network is giving anything greater than
<5ms (wireless or not) then something is not configured correctly and you
should do the tests I gave you to figure out whether or not you are going
outside your network. And ping... Not a true test of much other than
ability to see the other machine. PathPing and TraceRT... Please. It will
tell you what the path is.
Did you choose "Home Network" when you setup Windows 7 on your network?
Also - get the latest drivers for your chipset and network devices on all
machines - from the manufacturer, please. Microsoft - uf and when they
have your non-Microsoft hardware drivers - is usually weeks+ behind what the
manufacturer released (and fixed things with.)
Any third party firewall on the Windows 7 machine? Some super anti-virus
suite of some sort?
As for the Windows 7 specific areas...
In the "Answers" forums or non-Microsoft news servers.
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories
(Specifically:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windows7)
or
alt.windows7.general on a non-Microsoft news server like:
http://aioe.org/
Microsoft is doing away with the newsgroups - that is what Microsoft Answers
(above) is all about and there are plenty of Windows 7 groups there.