New network card and lag problems
By
Hyperstrike,
Posted on: 2010-01-22 16:00 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I have a brand new computer, connected to a DSL cable. As you said, I'm having no trouble loading maps or running the game EXCEPT for continuous, frequent lag spikes that yank me backwards every minute or so.
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Originally Posted by St_Angelius
I just upgraded from a G mode USB wireless adaptor to an N mode internal PCI card as the USB adaptor seemed to be on it's way out giving very poor connection speed. The new internal card is giving a much better connection overall enabaling much faster up and down load speeds, but in gave I'm experienceing a lag and rubber banding a lot more often. The WW/BM interface opens much quicker and maps load a lot faster than before, but my new found lag is making things hard to play at times, frequently hitting lag spike while legging it past +2/3/4/5 mobs and snapping back on low health or dead.
Anyone have any ideas on what I can do or how I can test the card to make sure it's performing ok? |
It's possible that your AP (Access Point) is the culprit.
Try plugging in directly (hard wired network) for a bit and see if the condition remains. Do this as close to the Internet "source" as you can. From the cable/DSL modem. If the condition persists, it's likely something with your connection.
After that, if your router is a separate piece of equipment from your cablemodem, hook that up and hook up to the router. Again check and see if the condition persists.
After that, step back to the wireless AP. Also, check to make sure the AP is locked down. If you're running wide open, likely you're getting someone leeching net from you. You may think you're doing something nice for people, but it's a case of "give an inch, take a light-year".
Also, make sure firmware is up-to-date.
Make sure you're also running on the latest drivers for the wireless card too.
Also, is your AP N-standard too? It's possible it's freaking out over the multiple tranceiver connections it's getting from a badly behaving N card.
Note: That's about everything off the top of my noggin. There's more stuff you could probably do, but it's 4:30 in the morning and my brain has roughly the activity of a month-dead roadkill right now.
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My advice is to monitor your connection in game, using '/netgraph 1' (/netgraph 0, to switch off).
That might give a hint of what is causing it.
At least for Legion_of_One is sounds remarkably like a windows build-in feature.
Each minute your WLAN connection will search for new networks, and while doing that well you will see it as no connection.
It can be disabled. Although in Vista and most likely also in Windows 7, you'll need an external application to do it. I can't remember the technical details, but I had once used an application called WLAN Optimizer to solve it.
I just upgraded from a G mode USB wireless adaptor to an N mode internal PCI card as the USB adaptor seemed to be on it's way out giving very poor connection speed. The new internal card is giving a much better connection overall enabaling much faster up and down load speeds, but in gave I'm experienceing a lag and rubber banding a lot more often. The WW/BM interface opens much quicker and maps load a lot faster than before, but my new found lag is making things hard to play at times, frequently hitting lag spike while legging it past +2/3/4/5 mobs and snapping back on low health or dead.
Anyone have any ideas on what I can do or how I can test the card to make sure it's performing ok?