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Thread ID: 78146 2007-04-04 23:01:00 Massive lag on lan mejobloggs (264) Press F1
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538323 2007-04-04 23:01:00 Playing UT2004 with my brother, I get these big pauses for about 2 seconds, every minute or whatever.

The only thing I can think of is that the pc I have the lag on, has wireless to connect to the lan, whereas the other is by wires.

The connection is at full according to the little meter thing, and I am only about 10m away from the router.

I am using the wireless router as an access point, cause I just plugged it into my existing router.

I have a WRT54GL, and just some D-LINK wireless card I bought for $50 at dse.

Anything I can do to make the lag less?
mejobloggs (264)
538324 2007-04-05 01:34:00 Wireless network connections ALWAYS have lag mate, so I would never use wireless for gaming! SolMiester (139)
538325 2007-04-05 03:46:00 Naaah way, it shouldn't be this bad should it? I can run through a door, and on the screen, the door hasn't even opened. Plus the big 1-3 second pauses.

I've done wireless gaming before, and never noticed it this bad, but that would be because I only played RTS, but still, I'm sure I would have noticed a bit if it was this bad.
mejobloggs (264)
538326 2007-04-05 03:52:00 Could it be modern improved security causing the periodic delays? If either or both ends is busily encrypting and decrypting things to (re)authenticate a connection there might not be much time left for unimportant things like data transfer. :D Graham L (2)
538327 2007-04-05 09:16:00 Game wirelessly at your peril! SolMiester (139)
538328 2007-04-05 10:33:00 had a similar problem when my soundcard and ethernet shared the same irq.. when playing lan games with lots of sounds and lots of network traffic = bad lag and horrible sound..

though your problem sounds more like latency issues with the wireless.
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