Wireless LAN + Gaming

[siyan]

I just got your average-to-bad 802.11b/g card and I'm about 10-12 meters, one floor, and several layers of walls away from the AP.

I'm getting massive lag spikes whenever I try to play games on the internet. Is this caused by the card changing speeds/channels? If so is there any way I can force the card to one speed/channel? I don't mind if its slow...6MBits is enough to play battle.net. I just need consistently low latency.

We do have a few 2.4Ghz cordless phones. Bad news?

TIA

 

[Fardringle]

2.4Ghz phones and wireless networks do not play nicely together. Particularly if you have a spread spectrum phone that likes to jump wireless channels frequently. If you can manually set the wireless channel on your phones (preferably to the low range, i.e. channels 1-4), then go in to your router set up page and manually change the wireless channel there to a channel that the phone(s) will not be using, such as channel 11. If the phones are causing the problem this should help resolve it.

If you can, also position your equipment so that the PC is as close to the router as possible and see if the problem still persists.