johnnyscience Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 How can I tell the quality of my wifi and if its up to par for download of Win 7?I'm running a new N wireless Netgear router & dongle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 It will soon let you know if you start the download and it states that it will take an inordinate amount of time.I assume you ordered the hard copy version as well, it may be best to wait for that to arrive (possibly quicker) as a friend was told this morning that a W7 download on his setup would take 37 hours - this is not due to his Internet service being slow but the Microsoft servers are so busy with people over-keen to get the new software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyscience Posted October 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2009 Well I guess my wifi is good enough. It started downloading like normal and I'm up to about 20% and its been roughly 20 minutes? So it will probably take over an hour, but thats not too bad since its a complete OS.I see there were a lot of problems upgrading from XP 32 to Win 7 64. I see an .iso dvd is needed to do a complete install. I dont have one at the moment, but trying to track one down.It would be nice if the install worked right from the download. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted October 23, 2009 Report Share Posted October 23, 2009 Note that you cannot do an "in-place" upgrade from XP to W7; that works only from Vista. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyscience Posted October 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2009 you're saying from 32 to 64. Yeah I've been reading about that. I'll try hunting down a dvd some where. I havent gotten the email confirmation that the backup dvd has even been sent out yet. So its going to be a while before I get it probably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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