wireless gaming = lag

im sure many have already experienced this.

when u play online games on wireless, u get lag spikes every minute or so and becomes more frequent the longer u play. i get 500+ kB/s but wireless just simply lags for gaming.

i've heard that its caused because for some reason windows checks for other networks every now and then which is whats causing the spikes and there are certain ways to reduce the frequency of the checks.

but does any1 know an actual solution for this?

 

I game exclusively on wireless. (Router is an Asus RT-N56U, broadcasting on the 5GHz band to an Intel 6200, through two walls at about twenty-ish feet).

The only time I've run into lag is when someone's downloading from my FTP server or the P2P scene is getting crowded.

Anyway, is there anyone else on your network? Maybe someone could be streaming videos and choking the bandwidth. And what kind of hardware are you using?

And, lastly, run some tests on pingtest.net and speedtest.net so we have an idea what we're looking at.

 

no1s on my network, just me, no external downloads or streaming or torrenting, nothing.

the behavior doesnt suggest banwidth choking anyways. coz if that was the reason i would get consistent lag/delay from my input. this is not the case. everything is normal but occasionally and all of a sudden i would get a major lag spike, meaning all of a sudden my controls do nothing . the screen progresses as if i made no input, and only to react to my input after the lag spike ends.

this wudnt be very noticeable in an mmorpg, but for an RTS this is doomsday.

 

any suggestions?

 

Try a different wireless card driver, a different wireless card (they're SO cheap now) try a different wireless router.

the easiest to test is a different router. go to Village Inn or somewhere with free internet at 2am when no one else is there and see how the game works then. If it works fine then, then it's likely your wireless router. If it supports DD-WRT but doesn't already run it, look into flashing it to dd-wrt and see if that helps. dd-wrt has some settings already in it's QOS that makes gaming better, but you can change those around as needed to get it to run better.

 

Leatrix latency fix.

Leatrix Latency Fix : WoW Tools & Utilities : WoWInterface AddOns