Posted: 2/21/2010 7:47:09 AM EDT
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I have Road Runner cable running into the house with a Motorola Wireless Router/Modem for my connection. The wife picks up the connection downstairs wireless and I'm wired in directly. Now the problem: I play first person shooters online, randomly I get these lag spikes, the thing about them is that every time they happen, which is completely random, might get a few every few hours, or maybe one all night, it's exactly the same as the last one. Let me explain exactly what happens, all of the sudden all packets just drop, to and from the game as well as Skype, then every few seconds I might hear a little 1/2 second activity on Skype and the game may "update" but then it drops again, and this spike will last about 10 seconds. Every spike that happens is exactly like this. I never get dropped from a convo/game, enough packets get through to maintain the connection. I'm sure it has nothing to do with network activity as my wife isn't on her computer when it happens. Any ideas? |
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i hate skype, its a memory hog and uses bandwidth even when you not using the program. turn her computer off one night and see if it helps.
after that try random speedtests during the day then at night. one disadvantage of cable internet is its shared in your neighborhood. so if you have a bunch of kids who download music and movies it WILL affect your download speeds. they do it alot at night when they aren't at the computer. |
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Quoted: i hate skype, its a memory hog and uses bandwidth even when you not using the program. turn her computer off one night and see if it helps. after that try random speedtests during the day then at night. one disadvantage of cable internet is its shared in your neighborhood. so if you have a bunch of kids who download music and movies it WILL affect your download speeds. they do it alot at night when they aren't at the computer. Forgot to mention that it isn't skype related, it will do the same thing with Ventrillo or if I'm not running anything else. This also doesn't seem to be a bandwidth issue, just momentary packet loss, after the ten second episode it's fine for maybe hours. |