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usspfnorman   02-02-2009 at 08:21:52 PM

hey i have a question on how to get more performance out of a linksys n ultra rangeplus me and a bunch of guys our deploying soon and right now we can get 14 people connected wirelessly to play delta force and moh but we wanna get more but when we do people get pinged out or lag becomes an issue so is there a way to make the router work better or do we need to get a 200 dollar gaming router
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nowwhatnapster   02-03-2009 at 02:04:35 AM
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get some cat 5 cables and plug a few people into it. thats your best bet.

if the router is not located in the same room/area you are gaming in, you loosing som performance there, but other than that there is not much you can do.

You have reached the limit of wireless n :-)

alternativily you could try loading your linksys with linux, i'm sure there are some tweaks you can do in there that could improve things. but if your using the basic firmware that came with the router. you cant do much about it.

When i host lan parties, i just plug everyone directly into a 16 port router. cant beat that. Especially when people need to install games that are stored on other peoples computers, or need to update games etc. the bandwith of a hardwired router pwns wireless.


Message edited by nowwhatnapster on 02-03-2009 at 02:05:56 AM
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usspfnorman   02-03-2009 at 04:07:01 AM
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there in lies the problem we're in a barracks now with separate rooms and wires goin everywhere isnt really aplicable and when we get overseas we may be in tents or 2 man huts so wires again an issue, we just got a really good gaming router that has 1000mbs so that helped out a little, another guy and i are planning on making a small server to host the games in hope that it will work we plan on maxin out the ram and getting a decent processor, how well do you think that may work

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grndnatnl   02-03-2009 at 04:11:27 AM
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Even N isn't a perfect connection. It may be stronger signal and higher bandwidth, but it's signal quality that can suffer for various reasons.

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