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Post by I3lessed on Sept 7, 2010 22:44:04 GMT -5
Hey I've moved into the city for school and I'm living with a few roomates and another guy that I'm playing with plays et. We tried playing together today and every 5 seconds or so my ping spiked, this happens even when he's not playing and he's just on the internet, just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on how I/we could fix this? Thats what my lag meter looks like
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Post by Zohar{QAW} on Sept 8, 2010 23:49:52 GMT -5
you on wireless?
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Post by I3lessed on Sept 8, 2010 23:53:08 GMT -5
yeah.
Edit: I was on wireless with my old account to though and thinking about it my sister went online with her laptop and I never had any connection problems there, different provider now though. If its because I'm on wireless what would be the cause/solution besides using a hard line? (if there is a solution :/)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2010 0:25:20 GMT -5
yeah. Edit: I was on wireless with my old account to though and thinking about it my sister went online with her laptop and I never had any connection problems there, different provider now though. If its because I'm on wireless what would be the cause/solution besides using a hard line? (if there is a solution :/) . Well first off, it's not just your sister using the connection. A wireless connection can handle two connections at the same time. You have room mates (meaning more then 2 this is your problem now). You are out of luck, you can not restrict a non native connection. Meaning the college or university holds the rights to the connection, and they can allow as many connections as they want over their network. Meaning it's just not 2 connections, it can be 2000 connections at the same time. This is why you have lag now, sorry man.
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Post by I3lessed on Sept 9, 2010 9:46:44 GMT -5
No we live in an apartment rez, paying for our own internet lol ^^ I know that dorm internet is shitty and lags like hell but yeah this is in our apartment and its password protected so it should just be the three of us on here, the odd thing is even when they aren't online I get that same lag :S
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Post by Zohar{QAW} on Sept 9, 2010 18:09:01 GMT -5
The thing with wireless is that while it can manage and negotiate many connections at once, it can only actually send or receive on one of them at a time. Send OR receive, not both at once. "Time" is relative of course, between the router/AP managing active connections and the time it tales for data to make its way through the TCP/IP stack, the end user experience is mostly seamless, for web surfing, IM, email, downward streaming (youtube) and so on. None of those applications care too much about the odd 30 or 60 MS of delay here and there, as they are over all more bandwidth limited than latency limited. Games are much more latency limited. Every time your friend is sending or receiving a packet to/from the server, you aren't, and vice versa. The more connections on the router, the more often you are sitting there unable to send or receive data. The solution - use cables.
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Post by I3lessed on Sept 9, 2010 20:57:57 GMT -5
bah well that sucks but ok thanks man
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