Online gaming close to impossible with my wireless.. help please

ZG002

ZG002

ZG002

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Hi people.. ive just moved in to a new flat and have gone from a nice wired setup to wireless.. with no chance of being able to hardwire into the bt home hub.. so i went out and bought a belkin PCI card and off i went. internet seems fine and i get ok download speeds etc..

But as soon as i try to play a game online it all goes horribly wrong i get random disconnects and what seems like ping spikes (but these dont show on css netgraph) im thinking im loosing packets of data somewhere and this aint good with online gaming am i right?..

What things can i try? and solutions? any other way to hardwire my set up without running Cat5 cable?

Help me please

:)
 
Generally home hubs not well regarded and could be the main issue rather than the wireless connection. Its not clear if you had a working wired connection to this router or was that in another flat?

If its the wireless connection , latest drivers, changing channels etc worth trying but above suggested powerline connection through main wiring is an possible replacment for the wireless and is remarkably simple unless you wiring suystem is odd (being a flat).
 
right ill get me a length of Cat5 and hardwire it.. (started using the home hub and wireless at same time.. so could well be the hub) unfortantly.. i dont have any say in the matter of using it :(

Right ill try that out asap and get back to you.. :)

ty
 
unfortantly not.. i dont even know the password etc for the adsl.. its a voice over ip phone also..

stuck with the home hub no matter what really.
 
You don't need a username/password for BT, and you could use the VoIP without having the Home Hub connected to the phone line...
 
A good test you can do here is to ping your wireless router for ages (say 100+ pings) and see if there are any spikes.

I've got an issue with my wireless where it gets a huge 100% packetloss spike for very short times when the WLAN autoconfig kicks in (polling for devices I think).

My solution is a bit ugly, but it works. Basically I have a batch file in my windows startup doing the following:

netsh wlan set autoconfig enabled=yes "wireless network connection 5"
pause
netsh wlan set autoconfig enabled=no "wireless network connection 5"

Essentially what this does is switch on the autoconfig (so my wireless can connect), then pause for input (giving it time to connect), and then when I press a key it disables the autoconfig again. This has completely eliminated all my problems with wireless spikes.


NB: The above is for Vista, for XP it's a lot easier, I found disabling the Wireless Zero Configuration service and using Linksys driver utility instead sorted things.
 
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HangTime said:
NB: The above is for Vista, for XP it's a lot easier, I found disabling the Wireless Zero Configuration service and using Linksys driver utility instead sorted things.
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I found this as well...disabling wireless zero config stopped spikes..do it all the time if I'm gaming
 
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