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My experience with two generic USB 802.11G adaptors

Todd33

Todd33

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1. The first will behave but ping 1000-2000ms (pinging the router) every few minutes, making games like BF2 unplayable, but WoW is fine.

2. The second has wild pings from 1ms-300ms and will lose it's IP every so often. Sometimes it will lose it's IP and it will take 10-15 mins to get a good connect back.

I guess the lesson is, don't go cheap with network hardware and buy it locally and return it if need be. I guess I will have to buy a $50 Linksys now and ditch the two $20 ones I have.


Update: I bought the Zonet one from Newegg, it had the highest rating and over 160 reviews. Well it worked ok at first, the ping jumped back and forth from 1ms to 140ms, but ok. As soon as I started playing WoW it disconnected and was stuck trying to get an IP from the router. I unplugged it and used the one from #1 above.

I have tried three now, any chance it could be the USB hub? My laptop has a 1ms consistent ping to the router its it's built in Intel adaptor.

Update: I hooked it back up (Zonet one) to my main PC and ran some dumb Internet optimization thing in Tune-up Utilities 2004 and now the ping is 1-2ms with an occasional hiccup. No disconnects so far either. So I guess something was screwed up with my XP setup and the optimization undid it.
 
Just because it is a known brand doesn't mean that it will be good. Take the latest generation WRT54Gv5 for example. 🙂 I would advise doing some research before you buy.

Although for playing games you should strongly consider running ethernet. It's leaps and bounds ahead of wireless in terms of latency.
 
So you think that if the same oem is put in more fancier plastic casing it would be better?

Anyway, try to log to the site of the card's oem chipset manfcaturer and use the latest drivers posted there.

:sun:
 
By generic I mean zero support guys, no drivers and no firmware - I've checked. I'm not saying name brands are guaranteed better, but at least there is some support.

If I could run ethernet I guess I would not be using wireless... this just in, water is wet 🙂
 
I just plugged in the 3rd USB adaptor to my laptop, perfect pings, all 1-2ms. Something with my desktop is causing all of this.

Ideas?
 
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