Home networking issue. need urgent help!

Danimal1209 · Post by **Danimal1209** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:49 pm

ok heres my situation

i play a game which requires very low latency.
my parents use their wireless laptop upstairs, and im plugged into the wireless router.

im using a linksys wrt45g and a charter modem.
ive prioritized my game in the router and my port on the router but it doesnt seem to change a thing, i figure its the wireless aspect of the router that is causing my latency, am i correct in thinking so? when her computer was wired, i didnt have this issue.

and wut i was thinking of doing, was either wiring my parents laptop upstairs or i was going to buy a wired gamefuel router and use it to plug my computer into, and also plug the wireless router into the lan port. would this help at all? would buying a new modem make any difference, the charter one is like 4 years old.

thx for ANY help.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:06 pm

I'm not fond of playing online games over wireless also....after a few months in the place I'm at...router on first floor, gaming rig on 3rd floor..wireless just didn't cut it.

Picked myself up a pair of power adapters (Linksys PLE200)...it's just as good as being wired.

Same exact ping I had on my favorite server as when I used to be plugged right into my router. I'm in the middle of moving ...so old house was wired with CAT6, I'll only be in this house for maybe a year until I sell my old one and purchase a new one in this town...so being as I'll be here less than a year..not worth the money running CAT6 for 3 floors.

Danimal1209 · Post by **Danimal1209** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:08 pm

yeah, i would do that too BUT im not wireless.

im plugged into the router via Ethernet, my parents are using the wireless to surf internet and do work from home.

i saw some routers that can set dedicated bandwidth to each port that weren't to expensive but i dont think those are what they say.

i saw the REAL ones are like 400 hundred bucks, which, inst worth a game.

picohat · Post by **picohat** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:59 am

Did you take a look on DDWRT (3rd party firmware) that you can use on WRT54G, there is bandwidth management feature to optimize for gaming. Check its wiki page..

picoHat

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:06 am

Danimal1209 wrote:yeah, i would do that too BUT im not wireless..

Ahh..missed that.....
Do you experience latency only when they're online surfing? Or say...when their PC is off...how is your latency?