Wireless Zero Config + Sky BB

Helium_Junkie · 1 Sep 2008 at 12:25

G'mornin.
I have sky broadband with the Netgear 934 black router. I have two problems:

1) The router frequently loses wireless connection.
2) Having the Wireless Zero Config tool enabled gives me horrific lag spikes which ruin online gaming.

So, if I try to disable the WZC service after a connection is established, after a short period the connection will just drop and I'll have to restart the service.

Has anyone encountered any similar problems, or have any advice?

tolien · 1 Sep 2008 at 12:42

If you don't use WZC you'll need to use another utility to manage the network connection, like whatever came with the adapter.

Helium_Junkie · 1 Sep 2008 at 12:46

The adapter is on board the Asus P5B Home Deluxe mobo, the software that comes with it seeeems to use the WZC, I'm not really sure. But when I tried to disable the WZC and use the Asus controller I got the same lag spikes :/
Is there a decent third party one?

In a month or so I will be trying to replace the sky router with my Linksys one, in the hope that the wireless will no longer drop connection. Just have to wait until the people using it have their replacement. If this does indeed keep the connection better then I should be able to just disable the WZC after its established a connection, if I see spikes occuring... right?

tolien · 1 Sep 2008 at 12:56

You mean if you switch routers, they won't have to use WZC?
No, the router doesn't change how WZC works.

Helium_Junkie · 1 Sep 2008 at 14:10

I mean if I switch routers the connection may not drop all the time (it never did with my non-sky router...), meaning WZC wont need to re-establish a connection, so can be deactivated after its found one.

I.e. windows starts, WZC establishes a connection, I disable WZC, connection stays up and WZC isnt needed anyway until the next windows boot.

I don't know why the router drops connection every half hour or so, but it does it if WZC is on or off, and my old router never did.

Dave85 · 1 Sep 2008 at 16:16

And have you tried the usual basics such as wireless channel switching and making sure you have not introduced something that could be causing the drop of the signal.

Helium_Junkie · 1 Sep 2008 at 23:12

I;ve tried changing channels and I've tried the router in multiple places. The next step for me is to try my other router, which is waiting on the people using it replacing it.
Fingers crossed that one will be ok.