Does having wireless adapter on pc help stability?
- Thread starter Fallatic
- Start date
The issue with lag spikes are that they can occur at any point between your PC and the host server. Improving your wireless connection will only help if the lag spikes are occurring on your home wireless. There's a very good chance the problem lies between your router and your ISP, or if your ISP's link is saturated and traffic is being queued or dropped. In any of those cases improving your home wireless will not make any difference whatsoever.
Have you ever used "Pings" before? It's a simple networking command which is useful to diagnose issues. Essentially if you leave two pings running in the background while you game, one ping to your local router (over your wireless), and one any reliable server on the Internet (like www.google.com), when the lag spikes you can tell where the issue is. I can provide a bit more of a description if you're prepared to try it.
audie-tron25
Reputable
- Mar 23, 2015
- 498
- 1
- 5,165
It could also be interference with your Wi-Fi by other Wi-Fi networks in the area. Are you running 2.4GHz or 5GHz and have you selected a channel not used by other people near you?
So follow this to get a ping to your router: http://www.dummies.com/computers/pcs/how-to-ping-the-windows-network-router/
Then, use the -t switch to leave a ping running... the command looks like this:
ping -t [RouterIPAddress]
Then open a new command prompt and set off another ping to something like www.google.com
ping -t www.google.com
You can just leave them running. It's sending a tiny, tiny amount of data each second which is basically irrelevant for any internet connection.
What you want to see is nice low response times, absolutely no (or only very occasional) dropped pings. But you also want consistent response times. So it's when you see a ping response shoot up to a much higher time that you'll get lag spikes in games.
The key thing to look for is what happens when you get a dropped packet, or a high response time:
- OPTION 1: The ping spike (=lag) is on BOTH the ping to your router AND the ping to Google. Because the packets to and from your local router are affected, that is a problem with your home wireless connection. So in that case look at improving that connection (trying a different channel, getting things closer together or avoiding obstructions, etc).
- OPTION 2: the ping spike is ONLY on your Intenet (www.google.com) ping, while the local ping stays consistent. In that case the issue is with your Internet connection. It could be that there's too much traffic on your Internet connection (maybe people are downloading files or streaming youtube, etc). It could also be that your ISP has too many users and is queuing traffic.
Try that out and post back your results.
There is not a lot you can do. The only options that you can generally even set in your router are trying to set the channels to 1,6,11 and maybe set then channel width to 20mhz rather than 20/40mhz. There are more channels selections on 5g so you could buy dual band router and nic and try all those channels also.
Still your problem is likely completely out of your control. The major issues with wireless come from outside your house. Likely neighbors using wireless. Many of them now use very high end routers that attempt to use all the radio bandwidth. This means it is very unlikely to find any wireless channels that do not have interference on.
Games..and especially games with pvp...do not tolerate the random delays caused by wireless network connections. Pretty much there is no real solution. For almost everything except games wireless works very well. This is a fundamental thing based on how interactive games work.
I can remember when people talked about going war driving wireless was so rare, now you see hundreds of wireless devices on just about any street. Massive interference issues everywhere you look.
Still your problem is likely completely out of your control. The major issues with wireless come from outside your house. Likely neighbors using wireless. Many of them now use very high end routers that attempt to use all the radio bandwidth. This means it is very unlikely to find any wireless channels that do not have interference on.
Games..and especially games with pvp...do not tolerate the random delays caused by wireless network connections. Pretty much there is no real solution. For almost everything except games wireless works very well. This is a fundamental thing based on how interactive games work.
I can remember when people talked about going war driving wireless was so rare, now you see hundreds of wireless devices on just about any street. Massive interference issues everywhere you look.
TRENDING THREADS
-
-
News Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements- Started by Admin
- Replies: 4
-
Question r9 390 a good budget option since rx 580s are overpriced?- Started by jordanbuilds1
- Replies: 3
-
-
Question a boot loop for IBM x3550 m4 but it immediately turns off
- Started by abdus1
- Replies: 2
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram