Massive wifi lag spikes

JadeFox · January 2nd, 2009, 11:02 AM

Lo all

I have a problem with my new PC, i use it for gaming online and the problem is the wifi card or its drivers i think. Its an edimax ew-7728IN PCI wireless N with the latest drivers.

What happens is when im playing online every 20 or 30 seconds EVERYTHING freezes for about 2 or 3 seconds and then im somewhere else (its a massive lag spike) it affects web browsing aswell and more noticable on most games than others. sometimes it will cut itself off from the internet completey, the green icon representing a good connection becomes see thru representing no connection and 10 seconds later its connected again all by itself.

Every other pc or laptop i had in the same place had a perfect connection from where my pc is now, i(ts using wireless N, has three antennas (MIMO?) and is connected to the router one wall away via wireless N with 2 antennas. i have never had this problem before.

Anyone else had problems like this before? Any help

Vista 64
Asus P6T deluxe
Core i7 920
3GB DDR3
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**GroundZero3** · January 2nd, 2009, 11:25 AM

Do you have the latest router firmware installed? Do you see other wireless networks around you?

What router do you have?

JadeFox · January 2nd, 2009, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by GroundZero3

Do you have the latest router firmware installed? Do you see other wireless networks around you?

What router do you have?

I have a (starting from my internet connection) my Cable coming to a D-Link DI-514, (open. i know dont go there my family are idiots) usnsure about drivers connected wirelessly to my Linksys WRT150N with DD-WRT firmware with the latest drivers acting as a repeater to give me extra signal.

Yes i can see a lot of other networks around me, but i never had this problem with my old USB Belkin.

wambulance · January 2nd, 2009, 02:00 PM

What you may want to do is check settings within the wireless router. There should be some kind of setting where you can change the "channel" (usually 1-11 in a drop down list, going by memory here) that's being used. D-link tends to default to channel 6 as do most other makes, making this the most commonly used channel. It's possible that your Belkin could have had a different default channel setting.

I had this same exact problem and had noticed that there were like 5 other wifi connections around me, so I changed this setting to something other than default and it cleared up.

Post back and let us know if this corrects the issue or not.

JadeFox · January 3rd, 2009, 07:14 PM

Ok i tried a few different channels but it did not improve it one bit (it now cuts out very frequently) so i changed it back, its now doing what it was before still :/

I know its not a problem with my routers as every other machine i use works flawlessly on wifi but my main gaming machine, surely its down to the wifi card or drivers?