USB dongle modem drops connection when gaming?

Hey there

I use a Huawei E220 USB modem dongle on the Vodafone mobile broadband network and when I am downloading stuff in the background and then go to play a video game (in this case Medal of Honer Allied Assault) the connection is lost but then when I exit the game the USB modem picks up the connection again.

It happens with most games in fact and I have had a look around the web but can't find much help.

I'm running XP Home SP3 32bit and my laptop is an Asus M70VM but I don't think it's related to my laptop or my OS because the same problem also happens in Vista on the same laptop and on my older laptop (Acer 9302) it happens in Vista and XP also, both computers run the 32 bit versions of Vista and XP with all updates and service packs installed.

Does anyone here know if there is a way to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance for any help/advice on this.

 

Gaming data streams are extremely data, memory and CPU intensive. If you're downloading stuff and trying to game, that's the likely cause of your drops, especially if you're running a lot of background processes to boot. You need to pick one at a time.

The next time you try doing both, open your Task Manager and then look at your Performance indicator to see how taxed your CPU is.

 

Ok thanks.

I have now set up a wi-fi ad-hoc network between my two laptops. Plugged in the dongle in one (the Acer 9302) and connected that to the web and used ICS to share the connection with the other laptop, the Asus M70VM.

Works fine now - I can download in the background on the same computer I am gaming on.

So I still don't get why having the dongle on the same computer that I'm gaming on causes it to drop the signal.

Perhaps it is just because the system is taxed too much?