Wifi and gaming

Minstadave

Minstadave

Minstadave

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I've recently been playing BF2 on a wired 10mb connection quite happily, today I installed a NETGEAR WGR614 v4 wireless router and have connected up to my Belkin 802.11G card without any problems.

I've enabled WPA and my connection is 54Mps with full signal strenght, yet I get only half the bandwidth I do with a wired connection (using http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp) and when playing BF2 I get intermittent pauses with "problem with connection" popping up, then going back to playing perfectly well.

Is there anything I'm doing wrong? Is there anyway to tweak the performance?
 
I had the exact same problem. I used the wireless on my Netgear DG834PN and a belkin usb adapter. It happened with my d link access point aswell.

All the time i got the 'there is a problem with your connection' in bf2.

As my pc is right next to the modem i though i might aswell use the cable, and guess what, no connection problems at all. Weird hey.

If anone knows a solution i would be grateful.
 
I had this problem with my Belkin wifi card i fixed it by using a 128bit wep key and dissabling windows wireless zero configuration: Goto start,run type: services.msc, run, scroll to the bottom, double-click wireless zero config, and change it to disabled. I was using my belkin software to connect to my access point, so not sure if you'll need it or not, worth a try. Let me know how you get on, i think mine reappeared with 1.3 patch but i was already changing over to a wired connection anyway so didnt test more than 1 server.

You could also try changing rwin size/mtu etc. not sure how much good it will do tho.

Ben
 
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