Installing W7 on an Acer Extensa 5220

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Hi all,

Helping a friend of mine to install W7 (Ultimate x86) on his (rather dated:D) Acer Extensa 5220 notebook.

While it runs 10x better than it did on XP, it still feels sluggish to me, especially the WLAN connection. It reports as being connected at 54Mbps to my router, but copying over the network yields a mere 1.5MB/s, which is about 12Mbps. It sits close to the router.

I have turned off all the visual effects but that made little difference.

All missing drivers have been downloaded and installed from Acer support website (except BIOS flash - leaving that for last).

Has anyone here tried W7 on this particular machines that could perhaps please share his/her experiences and any advice if any?

Cheers rudi
 
Try the WLAN and graphics card manufacturers' drivers, not the Acer ones. They are more up to date, and generally give good performance.

Also check that the card's energy saving features are not set too aggressively.
 
that speed sounds about right for a transfer over wireless lan.

Rather use a fixed wire connection for large direct transfers.... you should then get about/up to 22 Mbps.

Or use a powered external USB drive and you will get 480 Mbps :p

How much RAM does this Acer machine have?
 
Garyvdh said:
that speed sounds about right for a transfer over wireless lan.

Rather use a fixed wire connection for large direct transfers.... you should then get about/up to 22 Mbps.

Or use a powered external USB drive and you will get 480 Mbps :p

How much RAM does this Acer machine have?
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Gary, sorry for the late reply. I am with you on using better ways to transfer large files, you are right, USB or wired LAN would be quicker.

I have come to the conclusion that the wireless card built into this machine is just old, and there is no point in any further investigations. I have a 300Mbps router, other machines in the house connect at 130Mbps (n) and at times outperforms the cable when it comes to transfer speed!

The machine only has 1Gb or RAM, maybe that is part of the problem?

Cheers Rudi
 
Ja, if you can... increase the RAM... but I doubt that will much affect the transfer speeds.
 
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