cheap router= bad online gaming? Help plz

[Theocnoob]

Hey I've got a DI 604 (D link) wired router and an 8mbps cable internet connection *(its always 8mpbs- I live in shall we say a white trash low internet level neighborhood).

I notice a lot of chops and lag in online gaming which I dont seem to remember from before we used the router... Damn woman wants 'a computer'...

anyways if I get a better quality wired router, will this help?
Is the router slow or something or does it reduce my data rate? Whats goin on?

Also, the router has two outputs, one patch cable, from the router to my PC (the gaming one), is 3 feet, but the other patch cable to the other PC is 100 feet.

Does this matter? The two PC's are never in use at the same time...

Thanks guys!! Happy holidays!

[Theocnoob]

nobody?

[DocClock aka MadClocker]

I don't know much about networking, but look in the stickies for a troubleshooting section
Maybe you can sniff out the bottleneck.
good luck,
Doc

[Theocnoob]

I don't know much about networking, but look in the stickies for a troubleshooting section
Maybe you can sniff out the bottleneck.
good luck,
Doc

I couldnt find one... I hope some one can help me

[Trap05]

Is your routers firmware up to date?

[trey_w]

100 foot run of Cat5E should be fine. Can you try bypassing the router by connecting directly to the cable modem to see if it makes a difference?

[curtis1552]

Run a test to actually see what the speed is. HERE (http://www.speedtest.net/)
Many things can affect your speed, the switch (your router), TCP/IP settings on your computer, the phone/cable line (also from box to wall plug), etc.
My problem was my router (my downloads went from 300kb/s to 1600kb/s.
Setting your NIC to full duplex 100 may help speed too (instead of automatic)
Personally I wouldn't sneeze at 8mb/s beccuse until today I didn't break 0.8mb/s - ever.

[Theocnoob]

Run a test to actually see what the speed is. HERE (http://www.speedtest.net/)
Many things can affect your speed, the switch (your router), TCP/IP settings on your computer, the phone/cable line (also from box to wall plug), etc.
My problem was my router (my downloads went from 300kb/s to 1600kb/s.
Setting your NIC to full duplex 100 may help speed too (instead of automatic)
Personally I wouldn't sneeze at 8mb/s beccuse until today I didn't break 0.8mb/s - ever.

its not the 8 mbps, its stuttering. there's packet loss occuring because with the router ill be playing online and all of a sudden I get a couple of half second pauses and then everythings normal. This happens in games that I run at like 2 billion fps so its not my hardware...

Without the router I get much smoother gameplay.
Where do I get the firmware? Dlink site?

[Theocnoob]

Ok i checked firmware is up to date...

Could it be that its on auto settings?

If I entered the MAC and IP of the router manually would it help?

[gangaskan]

how many connections are you running on your router?

most have a max of 200 (IIRC) DD-WRT and most, if not all, thrid party firmwares let you boost it up to about 4096 or so.


update your firmware, try to find max amounts of connections


possibly what is happening is you're pegging the router's max connections, so it has to drop some of the connections and that may or may not be on the fly.

[Theocnoob]

how many connections are you running on your router?

most have a max of 200 (IIRC) DD-WRT and most, if not all, thrid party firmwares let you boost it up to about 4096 or so.


update your firmware, try to find max amounts of connections


possibly what is happening is you're pegging the router's max connections, so it has to drop some of the connections and that may or may not be on the fly.

WAP LAN1 and LAN2-- but LAN2 gets used maybe 4 minutes a day to check email and thats it. They are never used simultaneously...

The odd thing is that throughput (approx 800KB (not kb) /s) router or not...

[=ACID RAIN=]

So have you connected to the same server with your PC directly to the web and found that you don't have lag spikes?

Try this:
Open a command prompt and type
ping -t 4.2.2.4

It's a verizon nameserver, I use it all the time for diagnostics. Or you could keep it inside your ISP's network to make a determination with less variables to worry about:

ping -t {your_router's_gateway}

Now go do stuff and see if you actually lose any packets in the ping loop, or if it was simply a bad connection to the server you were playing on. If you do lose packets while pinging your ISP gateway, then you need to call your ISP and tell them you have this problem. If you only lose while hooked to the router, get a new router.