Awful Asus rt-n66u Lag

MikeTheNative · 11 Jun 2014 at 20:16

Hi all

I recently got a asus rt-n66u and Asus USB-N53 to go with it. I thought I would take the 5.ghz band myself and put everyone else on the 2.4ghz. I'm not sure if this is causing the really bad lag I'm getting but it's unplayable (300+ ping). Any ideas will be much appreciated, it's only every now and again but it's rather annoying.

Steveocee · 11 Jun 2014 at 20:25

Whats your response time if you ping the router?

MikeTheNative · 11 Jun 2014 at 20:29

It's 1ms. I don't think it's my internet as I have never had any problems before.

KIA · 11 Jun 2014 at 21:38

Is someone on the network saturating the connection?

You can use WinMTR to measure latency at each hop and packet loss.

Steveocee · 11 Jun 2014 at 21:41

^^^mtr out to any given site would help a fair bit.
Either that or a pathping (same thing pretty much)

Try to make sure nobody else is using your router when you do it though.

lamboman · 12 Jun 2014 at 19:22

Unless you're getting an extremely poor signal (i.e. your PC is basically intermittently disconnecting for very short periods or you're getting massive interference), changing Wi-Fi frequencies isn't going to make a difference.

As everybody else said, it could be just the connection being saturated. What router did you have before, maybe that had QoS enabled by default?

If that is the problem, Tomato has brilliant QoS that is dead easy to set up and for the most part is extremely effective. Should be sufficient to sort out the problem unless you have a very fast connection (above 80Mbps or so) but then at those speeds you're unlikely to be having this issue anyway.

Steveocee · 12 Jun 2014 at 20:48

If qos was an issue you could turn it off but I doubt qos is causing this.

lamboman · 13 Jun 2014 at 17:42

Steveocee said:
If qos was an issue you could turn it off but I doubt qos is causing this.

Just to be clear for the OP, I meant that the old router may have had QoS which may have been sorting the problem out, not that the new one has it enabled

Steveocee · 14 Jun 2014 at 08:44

Even then unless op had a useless connection then I'd be amazed if qos was doing this.

MikeTheNative · 16 Jun 2014 at 10:01

Seemed fine all weekend but it was a BT home hub before, not sure which one but it wasn't the newest one. Bars are full for the wireless connection, it's only about 8 foot away from the router. As for over saturation, we only really have one laptop, a nexus and two phones wireless other than my computer and I doubt that they would all on at the same time either. I'm starting to wonder if it is my internet, I have BT fibre optic (75 down, 15 up) so I hope it's not.

BattFink · 16 Jun 2014 at 10:10

Can you try the connection with an ethernet cable? It should help eliminate any wireless network based issues

Generally I find BT Infinity to be excellent for latency