WoW latency issues (See within)

[timosyy]

Ever since I got WoW two days ago, I've been having ridiculous latency problems ... almost always yellow, sometimes deep red. I have wireless cable, and I'm blaming that right now.

Brief descrip of my setup:
Linksys 802.11b wireless USB network adapter
Netgear 802.11g wireless router
My computer is in my room, the router is downstairs.

Is there any way to improve this? Hard to combo well or do anything well as a rogue with high latency. Is it because of the USB connection? Any way to solve this? Says Signal Strength : excellent but that doesn't mean much if its not actually transferring the data that fast ....

help

 

[Weeeman]

Originally posted by: timosyy
Ever since I got WoW two days ago, I've been having ridiculous latency problems ... almost always yellow, sometimes deep red. I have wireless cable, and I'm blaming that right now.

Brief descrip of my setup:
Linksys 802.11b wireless USB network adapter
Netgear 802.11g wireless router
My computer is in my room, the router is downstairs.

Is there any way to improve this? Hard to combo well or do anything well as a rogue with high latency. Is it because of the USB connection? Any way to solve this? Says Signal Strength : excellent but that doesn't mean much if its not actually transferring the data that fast ....

help

I'd blame it on thousands upon thousands of new accounts being made in the past couple of days

 

[timosyy]

bump

Its not that .. none of my friends are lagging at ALL .. wheras I can barely make it through Ironforge at like 3 frames per second

I blame the wireless, but i'm wondering if theres anything I can do about it. Its connected to computer via usb cable - could the usb be the problem? maybe if i was plugged directly into my computer? i'm also assuming this is usb 2.0, if it was 1.0, though, would that be it ?

Only other alternative is drilling a hole through the floor and using a really long ethernet cable to connect it. Can't imagine that'd go over very well

"Why are you drilling a hole through the ceiling?"
"... So I can have less latency in WoW"

 

[dbzwukan]

how did you set up the router? did you open all the ports needed for the game?


Are you using a access list for the router? or encryption keys? access list will provide enough security for normal users. encryption keys could slow down the communication.

 

[timosyy]

Hmmm ... havn't checked ports but thats cause those normally arn't the problem. no encryption

random question though (disclaimer: i'm a router noob)

under advanced wireless settings:

RTS Threshold (0 ~ 2432) :2432
Fragmentention Length (256 ~ 2346) :2346
Beacon Interval (20 ~ 1000) : 100
DTIM (1 ~ 255) : 1
Preamble Type : Dynamic

Yet on the side it says fragmentation length should be larger than RTS threshold. Maybe someone can suggest values ? (again, router noob)

Does it make sense that the wireless is slower than direct ethernet connection? And could it possibly be the USB cable?

Edit: arg .. wont let me change those values. gives me a blank javascript popup window when i hit apply.