Hey guys;
I recently got Wireless internet at home (through a MAN - metropolitan area network), ie, I don't have any cables, but a NextNet antenna modem I connect straight to my PC. I don't love the idea of wireless in this fashion but it will be at least a month until I get ADSL.
In general, the speed is good, the broadband is more or less what advertised and I get good download rates. The problem is gaming, specifically World of Warcraft. It just feels so flimsy.
I get incredible lag spikes. One minute my latency is sitting at 90ms (pretty good for an MMO) and then it jumps to like 1200. My guess is packet loss.
Is it possible to improve this through tweaking something? Or is it the nature of Wireless just to have this intermitent performance?
I recently got Wireless internet at home (through a MAN - metropolitan area network), ie, I don't have any cables, but a NextNet antenna modem I connect straight to my PC. I don't love the idea of wireless in this fashion but it will be at least a month until I get ADSL.
In general, the speed is good, the broadband is more or less what advertised and I get good download rates. The problem is gaming, specifically World of Warcraft. It just feels so flimsy.
I get incredible lag spikes. One minute my latency is sitting at 90ms (pretty good for an MMO) and then it jumps to like 1200. My guess is packet loss.
Is it possible to improve this through tweaking something? Or is it the nature of Wireless just to have this intermitent performance?
