Vista Ping Issue Fix But New Issue

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I have an issue where my ping spikes severely in Vista 64. It's a common issue that makes online gaming a drab experience. There is however a solution:

To disable the WLAN Autoconfig you can follow these steps:

- Click on Start, type in "cmd" without the quotes, then right-click on cmd.exe which appears in your search.

- Select run as administrator.

- The WLAN service must be running first. If it isn't type net start wlansvc.

- Type in netsh wlan set autoconfig enabled=no interface="name of your wireless network here" (with the quotes)

- If you need to see the name of your wireless network first, type in netsh wlan show settings

That will disable the WLAN Autoconfig
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I found the above at another website forum and it actually worked. Problem is that after I did this and then changed the wireless channel, Vista no longer finds my network. And with auto-detection switched off now I can't find it.

Can someone tell me how to get it working as it was before I changed the channel please? And is there a way to change the channel and not have to reconfigure everything?
 
Tolien said:
Use your wireless adapter's configuration utility.
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I don't have one. :(

I have to use Ralink drivers for my Belkin adapter due to a lack of support for Vista 64 on Belkin's behalf. They work fine as drivers as they were made for identical chipsets. The configuration utility is unusable however.
 
You're stuck with Windows then, ping spikes and all. You could enable WZC again, set it up for the new network, then disable it.
 
Strange, I had tried that alread but it failed. I guess I must have mistyped or something. :S

Anyway, thanks that reactivated my wireless connection. :)

However, I repeated the autoconfig disabling process and now it will not allow me to use the internet after doing so. I did everything exactly the same as before. The only thing different is the wireless channel being used (the one with the strongest signal is no in place). I will try switching to the channel it was on before and repeating the process but doubt that will solve it.

Any other ideas?
 
I've just been enabling and disabling the wireless auto configuration repeatedly. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I now have my optimum wireless channel running and the auto configuration.

:)...or so I thought... :(

I ran a ping test on various websites. Instead of getting giant leaps from say 11ms to 1500ms every 60 seconds exactly, I now get "Request Timed Out" quite frequently and not clockwork like it was before.

I will test an online game to see how that is effected but it's not looking good. :(
 
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