Game lagging when connected to my Uni's WPA2-Enterprise WiFi

fred92

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Aug 30, 2016
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Hi, I have an issue when playing League of Legends and being connected to my University's WPA2-Enterprise wifi. Randomly, the internet connection will just stop working for a couple of seconds, making the game freeze for this period of time. Then it suddenly starts working again and all the characters jump all over the screen before going back to normal.

Some times the connection just cuts out completely, making the "Attempting To Reconnect" box appear, and I am unnable to move. The other players though look to be moving fine for a period of time. Then everything stops and it doesn't get fixed until I press my hotkeys to disable my wireless network card and enable it back again. Then the game is back to normal again. This just happens at the most random times and is extremely annoying because it makes playing ranked game a huge risk and not something I enjoy.

I live on-campus so I don't have another choice than to use the Uni wifi, and the router is on the ceiling in the hallway so I have no option to connect with an ethernet cable.

So like I said, the wifi is of the WPA2-Enterprise kind and the router is from Cisco. To log onto the wifi I have to enter both my student number and password. My building is two floors and the flat above me also has the same router with the same wifi on it. Am I experiencing my issue because my laptop is first connected to my wifi on the first floor and then tries to connect to the wifi on the 2nd floor? Or is there another problem?

I am using an Asus G75V laptop running Windows 10 with an Atheros AR9485WB-EG wireless network card and all my drivers are up to date.

Hope someone knows the solution to this, thanks for your time :)
 
Solution
Wifi is subject to random interference from many source. It can be pretty much any wireless source but tends to be other routers most the time. It can also be too many other people competing for a fixed amount of bandwidth either on the router or someplace else in the university network.

When you have control of the router you have some options but in your case you can likely do nothing since there are few option to change on the end pc.
Wifi is subject to random interference from many source. It can be pretty much any wireless source but tends to be other routers most the time. It can also be too many other people competing for a fixed amount of bandwidth either on the router or someplace else in the university network.

When you have control of the router you have some options but in your case you can likely do nothing since there are few option to change on the end pc.
 
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