Anyone here game on wireless? I have no choice but to, parents wont run the router in my room, won run cable into my room, so no matter what, even by offering to pay the ISP bill, I will be forced to game on wireless.

I'm not concerned with bandwidth as I am lag spikes. They are intermittent, on eevery 40 or 50 seconds. I can't figure out why but it is related to wireless because when I am on Cat5 I dont lag. Is there anyone out there gaming on wireless that's actually killing anything?

the router is a crap Linksys BEFWS411 or something like that.

Also I switched out my Linksys wireless adapter for a Blitzz one from Wal-Mart and the lag isn't as bad but it still there. It's a spike not a contiuous dial-up like bandwidth problem. However now none of the machines in my room will connect to CS or HL servers, it will display a fresh list of servers and show all the players playing etc. etc. but I can't join any of them.

I had that problem and alot of it i think ended up being the quality of the connection. Try an external antenna or something like that. Also B or G?

Why the heck wont they let you run a tiny cable into your room?

I would run it anyway, just hidden.

Where is the router? How far from your room? How many walls?

The router is on one side of the house, and I am on the far, far far side the farthest possible distance away from the router, god knows maybe 3 or 4 walls.

802.11b

Can't hide it, no basements in FL

J-Dogg, I'll send you a custom cut from my 1k FT spool of CAT5E if you just shut up!

Quote: Originally Posted by TekXoID J-Dogg, I'll send you a custom cut from my 1k FT spool of CAT5E if you just shut up!

And I'll dry hump your leg if you come up with another lame insult

Good lord man, at least use some kY, dry hump...the humanity.

Seriously man you know Device>Wire>Device (Ethernet) is faster and
less problematic than Device>Wire>Air>Wire>Device (Wireless).

Who needs a basement?

There are walls, carpet, roof, and all sorts of stuff to run it through.

Try a high powered directional antenna if nothing else.

That would be a great idea to run Cat5 through the wall except for h fact he won't let me even though I voluteered to buy all the materials and install it myself which requires going up into the deep unknown frontier that is our attic and doing it myself.

We also have pets, and a grandmother that lives in here, you know how that goes.

I swear they designed this house with intentions of keeping me from actually doing something on my computer, between the ventilation problems and laggy internet. I can't do sh*t in here, 'cept surf PR and run a benchmark every now and then

http://www.powerlinecommunications.n...networking.htm
There is a solution for you. Don't know how good it works.

I have been playing CS Source at work on my laptop using a wireless connection - I dont even have a router. I used a wireless adapter connected to another PC and Internet Connection Sharing thru Windows XP. Latency is about mid 40s to high 80s - jumps around. I dont have any problem except my skills and my laptop. Im playing CS Source at 640 x 480 and getting 15 - 25 fps (depends on map)......I play all night and get very few kills, then go home and use my PC and everything reacts so much quicker I do WAY better.

The connection to our ISP at work is even wireless.

laptop>wifi card>air>wifi adapter>host pc>cat 5>router>antenna>air>antenna>air>antenna>ISP

We have to jump a two towers before we get where were going........Im suprised the latency isnt any worse.

ASK them if you can network the entire house and raise the property value of your hime i did it then we moved. And im going to do it to our new house. It is very easy just buy cable crimper heads and wall mounts and you will be set i did it under 200$

I have even offered to double my rent just to have a decent connection and they still won't do it.

Maybe I should sell off all this 1337 hardware and buy a Harley, something I might actually get to use