Windows 7 networking disconnecting when streaming?

[microman]

Is anyone else having problems with Windows 7 disconnecting while streaming video? When streaming movies from my library on a Windows 7 box, after 20-30 minutes my network goes down. I have to repair the connection on my win7 box in order to get it back on the network. I've tried a different switch so I know that's not the problem. The PBO and Win7 Box are connected via Cat5e so not a speed issue.
I've also tried updating NIC drivers. Not sure what else would be causing this.
Any suggestions? Thanks!!

[aasoror]

Is anyone else having problems with Windows 7 disconnecting while streaming video? When streaming movies from my library on a Windows 7 box, after 20-30 minutes my network goes down. I have to repair the connection on my win7 box in order to get it back on the network. I've tried a different switch so I know that's not the problem. The PBO and Win7 Box are connected via Cat5e so not a speed issue.
I've also tried updating NIC drivers. Not sure what else would be causing this.
Any suggestions? Thanks!!

I do have the same problem with my Win7 machine (Asus mobo with a Realtek PCI-E Gbit built it LAN) using the latest Realtek drivers.

It turned out that this isn't related to the PBO but the Win7 machine sometimes freaks out under heavy load. I found that using the built in Win7 LAN drivers (2007 dated) fixes the problem, but gives me very crappy transfer speeds with the PBO.

Updating to the latest Reatek drivers (Jan 2010) didn't fix it, lots of things might be causing this.. I am thinking router incompatibility with the Realtek drivers.