I use excel all the time and save to my pogoplug pro and works great.....doesnt take but a blink of an eye to save files.....

I have my desktop connected to a netgear wndr3700 (wired) and my pogoplug pro hooked to the netgear router....the pogoplug media settings are 1. "Stream photos, videos and music to your PS3™ and Xbox 360 = disable" 2. "Optimize your videos for playback = always" 3. "Create media meta-data (such as music album art): = never" 3. Generate photo and video thumbnails: = always". I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium and Microsoft Office 2003. I tried the newer version and didn't really care for it so I went back to the 2003 version. I also went into my device manager and under the network adapter properties and went through and rechecked all settings and found that after checking those settings and making appropriate changes my pogoplug performance was greatly improved. I don't know if any of this will help you but it sure has worked for me.

In windows control panel select the device icon...once that comes up, go down and select your network adapter....right click and go down to properties.....select the advanced tab and then go through all your adapter settings.....

no there isnt a prefered list for individual adapters...its just the windows settings for the adapter that you have installed in your computer....i just went in and experimented with different settings till i got what i thought was the best setup. Most of them had an "auto" setting which i used and just let windows take it from there. I didnt have to do anything with my firewall....