wireless lag.

Tar.Aldarion

hey, just got ntl 10mb net. It works fine for my laptop, on wireless, but I have a problem with my desktop.

I got a netgear dongle to connect it to the net as wired is not possible atm. http://www.netgear.com/Products/Adapters/SuperGWirelessAdapters/WG111T.aspx

I am using this net for gaming and on the desktop every minute or two I get a lag spike of up to 10 seconds. APart from that the net is perfect, not laggy etc. I turned off wireless zero confgiuration so it's not that. Is it just the dongle? Would I be better off getting a card for the pc instead, do they work better? And would cheap ones be likely to have the same fault?

Anything I can try to do to get rid of this?

Overheal

desktops and wireless - and dongles - ive never had luck.

I have similar issues on the desktop downstairs, which i got a linksys pci card for. Thos lag spikes make the investment in a bitchin video card to play online FPS games with totally useless. And the dongles at work slow down the whole computer - Ive clocked the utility that the dongles require to function taking up as much as 50% of the CPU at any given time.

Its a big ****ing headache. thats all I can say.

calex71

Windows XP??

If it is XP get this http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

In the settings move the slider all the way right , check box for optimal setting , apply and reboot.

PogMoThoin

Dongles are shíte, problem is there's absolutely no proper components in them.

Get Yourself a Linksys WRT54G and put the Tomato firmware on it and set it as a wireless bridge

lucernarian

That is if your WRT54G even has the right firmware in it... I bought one which you can flash diddly squat onto it, and it has dire signal strength to boot. Heck, when I looked into it further, the laptop would regularly transmit at 54 mbps, while it received at 1 mbps!!

Version 7 btw.

Tar.Aldarion

On xp yeah, I'll try that later.

So you suggest a router as a bridge over a network card?
And some of them you can't change teh firmware you say? :S

PogMoThoin

Yep the WRT54G version 7 has too little ram, which is why You get the WRT54GL I linked to. After WRT54G v4 Linksys introduced a completely different router under the WRT54G name and moved the old WRT54G router to the WRT54GL model. The newer model isn't nearly as powerful so it's much harder to run 3rd party firmware. Some third party firmwares will work, but Tomato isn't one of them.

Tar.Aldarion

Suppose I can try and get that so cheers, wouldnt want to get a card and have the same thing happen, although they are cheaper, maybe worth a shot.
decisions, decions, for the poor student!