Just recently, I've been having a weird issue with my wireless connection. I'll be using the internet just fine, normal speeds, and out of nowhere the speed will slow to a crawl. Still connected to the network, just painfully low speed. I formatted my computer to see if that would help anything. It would work fine for a bit, then crap out again. The other 2 computers in the house are having no problems, so I figured my network card was starting to kick the bucket. Bought a new one, and again, the connection dropped after a half hour. So it doesn't seem to be the router, since the other computers are fine, and the wireless cards seem fine too. Any idea on what it might be?
[QUOTE=Clover;26088922]Just recently, I've been having a weird issue with my [b]wireless[/b] connection. I'll be using the internet just fine, normal speeds, and out of nowhere the speed will slow to a crawl. Still connected to the network, just painfully low speed. I formatted my computer to see if that would help anything. It would work fine for a bit, then crap out again. The other 2 computers in the house are having no problems, so I figured my network card was starting to kick the bucket. Bought a new one, and again, the connection dropped after a half hour. So it doesn't seem to be the router, since the other computers are fine, and the [b]wireless[/b] cards seem fine too. Any idea on what it might be?[/QUOTE]
There's your problem.
Try dialing into the router and changing the channel to something like 11
[QUOTE=MTMod;26093248]There's your problem.[/QUOTE]
What's wrong with wireless?
Some people don't exactly want/can't drill holes in their walls to get cables to their computers for a hard line. Also what if he has a laptop? I doubt he wants to try and get around with a wire tethered to it.
Actually try and help.
OP, maybe you should see about upgrading your network card drivers.
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;26093629]What's wrong with wireless?
Some people don't exactly want/can't drill holes in their walls to get cables to their computers for a hard line. Also what if he has a laptop? I doubt he wants to try and get around with a wire tethered to it.
Actually try and help.
OP, maybe you should see about upgrading your network card drivers.[/QUOTE]
My cable runs across my floor, across the hall, and into the next room.
And it's hard to help with the OP doesn't provide hardware specs.
[QUOTE=MTMod;26096247]My cable runs across my floor, across the hall, and into the next room.
And it's hard to help with the OP doesn't provide hardware specs.[/QUOTE]
My cable runs out my bedroom window, down the side of the house (across 3 rooms, and down 1 floor) into the living room window, then into the back of the router. Uses up 20M cable with about 3M left spare.
If the other 2 computers are connected to the router by a wire and are downloading stuff by torrent that can crack up the nodes and will freeze almost evrytime the wireless unless you have a very good wireless router that have more or ecual to 2 radio.
if that is not the problem. try and config the router to a good channel and B/G. probly good if you cheack the specs to your wireless on the laptop.
hope anything that i wrote helps.
It might be the router. Get the latest firmware for it from the manufacturer site. Also, to see if it is the router run a traceroute to it and see what its response times are. Sometimes my router needs a reboot because the tubes get clogged.
1. Find out the IP address of the router, open a command prompt and type "ipconfig" without quotes, the default gateway is your router.
2. type "tracert [router ip]". Can also use "ping".
If the pings are larger than a few ms that means your router needs a reboot. Unplug for 30 secs and plug it back in.
If this didn't solve the problem, change the channel on the router to 1, 6, or 11. Also, if you only have wireless G devices on it, change the wireless mode to G only. This will increase your speed. Sometimes a neighbor will have thier router on the same channel as yours, and this creates interference.
I've been gaming on wireless for 5 years now, it can be quite reliable.
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