Playing black ops through wiless connection

Evilreg

Evilreg

Evilreg

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Hi Guys

i been playing black ops through a wirless connection in my house router upstairs and ps3 in front room downstairs.

70% of the time i have no problems but ocasionally when im playing it gives me a poor signal only 1 single red bar and i tend to get my arse kicked as i shoot people and nothing happens or the oposing players start glitching accross my screen.

some times people in our games accuse me of causeing host migrations and game lobby closures is this a problem with my set up or is it just distance to the host of the games and not much i can do to improve it.

interested in your comments

evil
 
During these times when your connection gets low, do people move about?

I would advise never to play games via wireless as its to much hassle and normally can't hold a decent connection without tons of lag and high ping. Try cable connection if you can mate ;)
 
I had host migration issues when I was using the wireless adapter.

Since moving to a wired connection with a small switch I get host (and hold it) 9 times out of 10.
 
The game should give host to the guy with the best all around connection to all the other players (and a speed quick enough, obviously).

If its picking you as host but your lagging everyone, then blame the netcode / game code.

Wireless connections are perfectly fine for gaming, the attitude of needing a wired connection pretty much stems from the CS days where people were convinced that going from 30 ping to 40 would be responsible for all of their deaths and make them terrible at the game.
 
Make sure there's no interference. Loads of things can cause issues with wireless. Most recent one I've discovered is a baby monitor! But generally make sure the wireless router and Playstation have a pretty good clear path, One of the worst things I see people doing is having the wireless router hidden down behind the back of their TV cabinet, Where you have electrical sockets, a sky box on standby, extension leads with half a dozen things plugged in, and obviously a television! These all give off interference. A router wants to be well away from anything thats capable of hurting the radio signal.
 
the router is based upstairs on the opposite side of the room to my desktop at times my mrs will connect using her laptop during game play could this be the cause?

of course there is also the possibility that i do suck at the game compounding the situation i can get on fine with yellow bars just when i hit the red bars it glitches like mad and when the guys online blamed me i thought i best check it out.

a wired connection would not be possible unless i ran a huge cable outside my house and up the wall or i could move the ps3 upstairs into my little hidehole i call office :)
 
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