Wireless Lag

[Undead_Mercenary]

OK, I am in dire need of advice in wireless troubleshooting. I can't stand this lag I've been getting.

Alright, first things first. My room mate and I are getting our Internet for free from our land lord upstairs (we live in a basement apartment). They are using D-Link DIR-625 Wireless Router for us to have access. Since they practically never use it, it's basically only being used by us two.

Now, I am not having problems connecting to it, nor am I having signal issues. The router is right over my head, so I get Good to Excellent signal strength. Also, they haven't gotten any new phones since we moved in a year ago, so I don't think that's the problem. This lag has been a pain for the past month or so, varying in degree of severity each day.

So, what tips do you guys have? We only have a limited access to the router, our land lord's brother in law setup the router and has the admin login. Are there any settings that might need to be changed? Could the router or our wireless cards need replacing? Some device other than a phone fucking with my Internets?!

I need a solid lists of ideas so I can march upstairs, whoop some ass, get back downstairs, then whoop some more ass... OK, maybe no upstairs ass whooping, the husbands actually a pretty big guy

[DenKirson]

Have you tried reversing the polarities?

[Fimo]

um all i can say is its wireless its crap 3/4 of the time. i am not really sure of any settings though sorry. i know haveing had wireless for a year now that anything in the entire house that runs on a frequency of 2.4ghz completely screws you over. i had the same problem with lag sometimes and my router is only two inchs of drywall away. only suggestion i have is drill a whole in ur ceiling and run a cord to the router only thing that got my internet to really work
Fimo

[XoR]

One thing you could try (YMMV)

Start -> Run -> services.msc

Turn off Wireless Zero Config

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D-Link wireless routers are not exactly "gamers choice". In my journey, dropouts and lag are very common on D-Links.

Wall cavities are not always obvious unless you really know the guts of the building. So you may have a reverb somewhere. Signal strength is not a good gauge of overall gaming experience, due to games being more synchronous than web surfing.

To this day, I have never been happy with wireless for gaming. I am picky and can sense a minuscule spurious ACK's and dup ACK's etc ... Many studies have shown that the unmodified standard TCP performs poorly in a wireless environment due to its inability to distinguish packet losses caused by network congestion from those attributed to transmission errors.

[Undead_Mercenary]

I have been turning off the Wireless Zero Config, but it hasn't made a difference. I've never had a problem with my wireless until the past month or so.

What I'll probably do tonight is go upstairs and really check if they're using anything with a 2.4-2.8 GHz frequency. They're not the most tech-savvy folk, so it might be a good idea to check in on them.

[Archangelus]

Have you tried any speedtest sites to see what your throughput is?

Have you tried pinging a server continuously (-t option) to see how many packets you drop over an hour or so? You can also look at it to get an average latency.

Just some things I'd try.

-Arch

[Dnasty1]

My opinion--wireless is just not ideal for gaming. Ive seen poor wireless connections even have trouble holding Vent. If the router is truely above your head just run a line directly to the router.. another option would be have your Landlord let you run the router and you could just split the cost. The fact is gaming on wireless in a MMO = soso FPS = poundfacewithhammer.

[midnightservice]

well wireless for gaimng is great if you use a linksys router and never ever use d-link unless you need a boat anchor.

Also upgrading to the new N or Mimo tech would bethe best bet but your looking at almost 190.00 for the router and 99.00 for the cards. or you could just go buy some 50' cat-5 cable
and run it down stair and be done witht he wireless, but beingit is a D-Link (or Dropped-Link or Dead-Link) you will still have the same connection interupption. D-Link is notorious about
havng a real low ip lease so it is constantly refreashing its ip form the ISP.

-Mid

[Undead_Mercenary]

Well apparently our ISP called the landlords and told them that the cable modem needed to be replaced. We'll have to wait until one of their guys show up, but hopefully that solves our problem.