adakow
10-09-2008, 02:50 AM
Ok, let me start by saying that I have 3 PCs on this home network. One PC upstairs which is hardwired to the modem/router and two downstairs (one uses a pci network adapter and MY computer uses a USB adapter). The internet works fine on all the computers, streaming media is not a problem. But I do have one problem.
I played World of Warcraft on my old PC (with the PCI adapter) and never experienced any sort of constant lag spikes or whatever. I got my new PC recently, and it doesn't have an available PCI slot so I purchased the USB network adapter and use that to connect wirelessly to my router upstairs. It shows 4 out of 5 bars of signal on my taskbar (it used to show 2-3 but i fixed that and now it shows 4 constant bars of signal, out of 5). I got my new PC especially to play games like World of Warcraft as well as a few other games and I seem to be having a very annoying problem.
Whenever I'm doing something in the game, everything will pause for a bit (characters will run in place, like a regular lag spike, whatever) and then 3-4 seconds later everything will speed up and catch up to what's supposed to be going on in the game. This occurs about every minute and it is VERY frustrating. Like I said, my internet browser and streaming media work fine, except the gaming. I tried another online game, and I had the same problem. I updated the firmware on my router and the same problem still occurs. I brought my PC upstairs to directly connect it to the router and the problem did not occur. I brought the PC back downstairs and the problem continued with the USB network adapter. I do not know where to go from here and need some help because I have run out of options. Can someone help me out please?
P.S. All of my networking devices are Linksys products and I use a Wireless-G router and USB network adapter. Oh, and my ping is always in the "green". Around 150-180 ms which is fine for World of Warcraft. Even if it got in the yellow (250-350ms) on my old computer (and when directly connected into modem/router) these frequent lag spikes never happened. Only now with my USB wireless adapter.
I played World of Warcraft on my old PC (with the PCI adapter) and never experienced any sort of constant lag spikes or whatever. I got my new PC recently, and it doesn't have an available PCI slot so I purchased the USB network adapter and use that to connect wirelessly to my router upstairs. It shows 4 out of 5 bars of signal on my taskbar (it used to show 2-3 but i fixed that and now it shows 4 constant bars of signal, out of 5). I got my new PC especially to play games like World of Warcraft as well as a few other games and I seem to be having a very annoying problem.
Whenever I'm doing something in the game, everything will pause for a bit (characters will run in place, like a regular lag spike, whatever) and then 3-4 seconds later everything will speed up and catch up to what's supposed to be going on in the game. This occurs about every minute and it is VERY frustrating. Like I said, my internet browser and streaming media work fine, except the gaming. I tried another online game, and I had the same problem. I updated the firmware on my router and the same problem still occurs. I brought my PC upstairs to directly connect it to the router and the problem did not occur. I brought the PC back downstairs and the problem continued with the USB network adapter. I do not know where to go from here and need some help because I have run out of options. Can someone help me out please?
P.S. All of my networking devices are Linksys products and I use a Wireless-G router and USB network adapter. Oh, and my ping is always in the "green". Around 150-180 ms which is fine for World of Warcraft. Even if it got in the yellow (250-350ms) on my old computer (and when directly connected into modem/router) these frequent lag spikes never happened. Only now with my USB wireless adapter.