samedi 3 mai 2014

My wifi connection really stinks

I moved recently and I signed up for a Comcast 50 Mbps connection. I have a Motorola SURFboard SB141 modem and a cisco Linksys E800 wireless router.



When I connect to the router by ethernet I seem to get a good connection (near 50 mbps on speedtest.com) although I haven't tested this for significant lengths of time.



The problem: my wireless connection is not good. Youtube videos can be streaming fine at 480 one minute then auto adjust to 180 the next minute. I usually get major lag trying to play League of Legends. Not so much a smooth consistent delay as repeated bursts of unresponsiveness where it's like I get no information from the server for a few seconds and then all of a sudden I'm dead.



I get anything from 1.2 to 20 Mpbs on speedtest.com on my wireless connection. Right now I'm getting a 33 ms ping, 11.35 Mbps download speed and 10.31 Mbps upload speed from that site. But I usually have 4 or 5 out of 5 bars. Under "Wi-Fi Status" (opened from somewhere in the network section of the control panel) it says "Speed: 65.0 Mbps". And currently 148,710,723 bytes sent and 2,201,977,572 bytes received (not sure that information's of any use). When I click "diagnose" it says "Your computer appears to be correctly configured, but the device or resource (DNS server) is not responding)." Seems odd since I'm connected. I'm not sure about packetloss. I tried to change my registry so that my Wi-Fi status would show packetloss, but it didn't work.



Attempted solutions: I made sure my IP and DNS things were set to automatic, ran flushdns, registerdns, release and renew ipconfig commands and still got the same message from running "Diagnose". Of course I've reset the modem and router. I even changed modems (the old one was even worse).



I have two ideas to try at this point. One is to buy a wireless repeater. The other is to buy a really long ethernet cord and run it up along the ceiling and up the stairs to where my desktop is. The former costs money and I'm not sure if it would even help. And the latter would be a hassle (I'd have to run it up the ceiling because I have a rabbit who chews through wires). So I thought I'd ask if anyone has any ideas about what the problem might be.



ETA: both my desktop and laptop seem to have the same sort of wireless issues, although the laptop connection is less tested.





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