Hi guys, I've had this really frustrating problem the past month where my internet will cut out completely when I launch a game. It varies on how it reacts, sometimes I'll launch a game and it'll say I have 50 ping for instance, but it's running like total crap connection wise. Sometimes it will say the ping is sat around 50, then it'll spike to thousands every 5 seconds or so. The most interesting thing I have just noticed is that when I open up SWOTOR and look at my connection, it'll jump 1000MS every second until my connection drops from the server, however if I minimize the game, sometimes the internet is actually on and I can browse the internet perfectly fine, sometimes it just flat out dies on me. What I found was when I minimized SWOTOR for a few seconds, and then maximized it again, my ping is low again at 50 ms, but it suddenly starts to rise rapidly into the thousands. So I guess that the internet issues are tied directly to gaming, even if I'm playing on something singleplayer. For some weird reason fullscreening a game just completely makes my internet throw a wobbler and I suspect it runs fine if I leave it minimized (but of course I can't play it then)
I've done Malware scans, re installed drivers, disabled firewall and refitted the Netcard but nothing seems to work. Something that also may be related is that I've noticed my connection cutting out occasionally when I'm downloading something on steam.
I'm on a wireless card (TP-LINK Wireless PCI Express Adapter), router is downstairs, but the problems only began recently. I'm currently with Virgin on a great broadband package that lets me download at 8 MB/S, so I shouldn't be having to deal with these issues.
As I've said, the problems seem to change everyday, as sometimes I can play games like Warcraft perfectly fine, but playing something like TF2 is impossible with the lag spikes. I'm sorry if this is poorly written I'm tired at the moment so if there's any issues that need to be addressed I'll tidy it up.
This used to happen to me when I used an old PCI Airlink wifi card. Replaced it and it stopped. I can only assume it was driver related.
So you're thinking its an issue with the card itself? When I first installed it everything was fine, the issues for some reason are fairly recent.
Well if your problem is anything like mine, it's because your card was produced by a company in south africa that doesn't write good drivers. :v:
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