better connectivity

[Bananarchy]

So, i am back at home, and my super sweet network connection from school is gone. I have a home wireless network, but the signal i get is kinda weak and was hoping I could get some help reducing my latency.

 

Basically I have a Netgear extended range router and card, but my signal strength is always low. Short of moving my computer closer or running a cable halfway across my house, is there a good way to increase the performance? I am getting pings of 120 on the server, when I used to get around 30-40 at school. Its really frustrating, and if I could get that number down to maybe 70 or 80 it would be wonderful. Any thoughts/ideas would be helpful.

[Dankst@]

try a couple of things.

 

1. move your router away from all the wires, so put your router, modem whatever on the side and in a corner

 

2. try and place your modem same height as your tower

 

3. reset router n modem n try out

 

 

if not get a long cable and connect it, and BAM your good

[MasterP]

Might be a good idea to know what the ping is when you are directly connected to the broadband modem/adapter. It’s highly unlikely that your wireless is the problem.

[Bananarchy]

MasterP said:

Might be a good idea to know what the ping is when you are directly connected to the broadband modem/adapter. It’s highly unlikely that your wireless is the problem.

 

 

Thanks for the tips. I will try this also MP, however when i have my tower in the same room as the modem/router I notice the connection is better, so it is likely that plugging it directly in will have the same result.

[MajorMajorMajor]

Bananarchy said:

Thanks for the tips. I will try this also MP, however when i have my tower in the same room as the modem/router I notice the connection is better, so it is likely that plugging it directly in will have the same result.

honestly… i would just suck it up and get a wire to connect it,

 

i did that with my tower and it goes across 2 bedrooms and a bathroom to get to my room, looks bad…. but oh so so so worth it

[AMerrill]

If you get excellent strength do you get a better ping?

 

 

May want to do a tracert check. open command prompt and type in tracert gaming.wcu.edu and post the results.

[Bananarchy]

MajorMajorMajor said:

honestly… i would just suck it up and get a wire to connect it,

 

i did that with my tower and it goes across 2 bedrooms and a bathroom to get to my room, looks bad…. but oh so so so worth it

 

 

I would if I could, but since I am in my parents house, their rules and all that. You wouldn’t believe the hoops I had to jump through to get them to switch from a Dlink router to a Netgear one. When it comes do doing anything technical, they get paralyzed by fear. Plus, my house is pretty long and running a cord just isn’t feasible.

[MasterP]

Bananarchy said:

You wouldn’t believe the hoops I had to jump through to get them to switch from a Dlink router to a Netgear one.

So you switched from bad to bad? Dlink is horrible but Netgear isn’t much better.

[Bananarchy]

MasterP said:

So you switched from bad to bad? Dlink is horrible but Netgear isn’t much better.

 

what would you recommend? If it really is a router issue and not a “my house is too freaking long” one, it might be worth it for me to pony up for a new one.

[MasterP]

Linksys > all.

 

I use the Linksys WRT160N.

 

If you’re a long way away from your router you might try a repeater.

[Bananarchy]

MasterP said:

Linksys > all.

 

I use the Linksys WRT160N.

 

If you’re a long way away from your router you might try a repeater.

 

 

Ill check that out MP. It’s not that I am super far away, there are a lot of walls in between, so maybe that is a problem. A couple other thoughts. First I did bandwidth test and i get about 10 mbps download and 1mbsp upload. Could the lower upload speed be causing the problem? If so, that is probably an issue with my isp correct?

 

I will also take a look at my rates and post if anything there is out of wack. Thanks again for your help MP.

 

Edit: Oh yea, I don’t really know what a modem does, but could that be any part of the problem? Also, is the fact that I have a netgear wireless card in my PC going to slow things down, or would it more likely be the netgear router? Or both?

[Falcon]

download and upload speed are more just rates than a measure of how fast it gets there… analogous to how wide a race track is, and therefore how many cars can race along side-by-side. ping time is how fast it actually gets there, analogous to how fast racers travel on said track. I don’t think upload speed would be a problem, to be honest, once you get to 1mb/s.

 

it may be more of just the time that all the different connections take to talk to each other… best diagnostic for that is like MP said, (if you’re in windows) open the command prompt (most universal method: <win> + <r>, then in the run dialog box type in cmd) and then when you get the console type in tracert gaming.wcu.edu… post those results (at least the times, the ip addresses are fairly irrelevant – just mark where your modem and router are on the list, if you know how to distinguish between them) and peeps can prolly draw better conclusions about what’s tying you up.

[MasterP]

Ping your router and post the time it takes. Walls aren’t necessarily the problem, the problem is what’s in the walls as in wiring and piping.

[Bananarchy]

I am not sure if I did any of what you said correctly, and I have no idea of what any of this mean, but I think i did what you said. I don’t know what is my modem or router on this list. Any way to distinguish between the two? Anyway, hope this helps in some fashion.

 

 

 

 

C:\Documents and Settings\kurt>tracert gaming.wcu.edu

 

Tracing route to gaming.wcu.edu [152.30.192.240]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

 

1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1

2 9 ms 20 ms 7 ms 10.1.96.1

3 11 ms * 14 ms 70.125.218.2

4 75 ms 11 ms 8 ms gig4-0-0.dllatxchn-rtr5.tx.rr.com [70.125.217.80

]

5 10 ms 14 ms 9 ms gig2-0-0.dllatxl3-rtr1.texas.rr.com [24.93.37.10

0]

6 37 ms 15 ms 10 ms ae-4-0.cr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.88]

7 20 ms 26 ms 24 ms ae-0-0.cr0.hou30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.38]

8 47 ms 57 ms 53 ms ae-3-0.cr0.lax30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.0]

9 51 ms 54 ms 51 ms ae-1-0.pr0.lax00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.129]

10 49 ms 50 ms 57 ms transitrail.net.any2ix.crgwest.com [206.223.143.

14]

11 59 ms 258 ms 204 ms te2-3–4032.tr01-plalca01.transitrail.net [137.1

64.129.14]

12 84 ms 75 ms 92 ms te1-1–260.tr01-sttlwa01.transitrail.net [137.16

4.129.33]

13 85 ms 87 ms 82 ms te2-2–158.tr01-chcgil01.transitrail.net [137.16

4.129.3]

14 98 ms 100 ms 103 ms te4-1–158.tr01-asbnva01.transitrail.net [137.16

4.129.10]

15 * 104 ms 103 ms ncren-cust.asbnva01.transitrail.net [137.164.131

.198]

16 107 ms 118 ms 106 ms rtp7600-gw-to-dep7600-gw2.ncren.net [128.109.70.

137]

17 103 ms 103 ms 105 ms rtp1-gw-to-rtp7600-gw-sec.ncren.net [128.109.70.

81]

18 168 ms 131 ms 109 ms chltgsr-gw-to-rpop-oc48.ncren.net [128.109.52.7]

 

19 115 ms 135 ms 129 ms ash7600-gw-to-chltgsr-gw.ncren.net [128.109.7.74

]

20 120 ms 315 ms 115 ms wcu-gw-to-ash7600-gw.ncren.net [128.109.7.14]

21 116 ms 113 ms 118 ms 152.30.20.252

22 119 ms 119 ms 117 ms 172.16.10.2

23 115 ms 116 ms 116 ms gaming.wcu.edu [152.30.192.240]

 

Trace complete.

 

C:\Documents and Settings\kurt>

[AMerrill]

Falcon said:

it may be more of just the time that all the different connections take to talk to each other… best diagnostic for that is like MP said, (if you’re in windows) open the command prompt (most universal method: + , then in the run dialog box type in cmd) and then when you get the console type in tracert gaming.wcu.edu… post those results (at least the times, the ip addresses are fairly irrelevant – just mark where your modem and router are on the list, if you know how to distinguish between them) and peeps can prolly draw better conclusions about what’s tying you up.

 

That was me not MP.

 

Bananarchy said:

I am not sure if I did any of what you said correctly, and I have no idea of what any of this mean, but I think i did what you said. I don’t know what is my modem or router on this list. Any way to distinguish between the two? Anyway, hope this helps in some fashion.

 

 

The tracert has nothing to do with your router. It just shows the route your connection goes through to reach WCU servers, each number is a hop that your connection takes before reaching the destination. It also shows the ping time to each hop. If you had several hops to wcu and showing high pings then your problem would be with your ISP. Hop 11 is a little high but since the pings on the other hops after 11 look fine then its not an issue. This tracert looks fine, so the problem is not with your ISP/connection.

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