As I mentioned yesterday, I have been having problems with my wireless connection with my laptop, which is running Vista 64, and my FIOS connection (using a Verizon-provided Actiontec router). Basically, I connected a Linksys wireless router to the Actiontec router, and I'm connecting to the Linksys.
First problem is that Vista keeps trying to initially connect to the Actiontec. This makes sense, as that was to what I was connecting all this time. I think I might have fixed that.
Speed doesn't appear to be a problem. The connection still seems nice and fast.
I tested last night. I fired up multiplayer matches of Demigod and Battleforge, and the connection seemed fine. I also downloaded a game from Steam, and again everything seemed fine.
This morning, I did drop to "Local only" mode once, but selecting "repair" fixed that. With the Actiontec router, it would take several tries to get this to work, so this is a huge improvement. Let's see if this happens more often: one time can be "just one of those things". I played an online game of Dawn of War 2, which ran well, but when the match ended I saw a message on screen saying that it had lost its connection to Steam. I exited the game, but I saw that Steam seemed to be fine and the Internet connection seemed to be fine.
I'm tempted to say that "Day 1" is a success, since this is a huge improvement. I'm going to push this for a week, so let's see how that turns out.