wireless lan connection with AH

[dkff49]

Not to be argumentative skuzzy, but i never had any noticeable issues with my wireless lan when i was using for AH. I did not get any stutters until the last game update. I am wired directly to the router now and did it as an attempt to reduce the stutters i have but there was no improvement at all.

I have actually noticed no changes between the wired and wireless connection in my home.

I am not sure at this time what model router and PCI card I am using but when i get home rom work tomorrow i can look.

[Masherbrum]

The moral of Skuzzy's story is correct, you will NEVER have a "100% connection" with Wireless.

[TheZohan]

with wired or wireless its all about what your ISP too. i've been on a wired connection before and get booted from AH every 5-10 minutes. been on wireless and never got booted. been on cellular and be hit and miss.

bottom line is no connection is 100% and can have connection problems with any connection. sometimes you get lucky and have no issues. sometimes you have all the issues.

[dkff49]

The moral of Skuzzy's story is correct, you will NEVER have a "100% connection" with Wireless.

while it may never be 100% it may be close enough that the issues are not noticeable.

[Masherbrum]

while it may never be 100% it may be close enough that the issues are not noticeable.

Which is exactly what Skuzzy said.   

[dkff49]

You do have issues. You just may not attribute them to the wireless connection.  It is impossible not to have some issues, such as the occasional garbled voice, or a slight pause or stutter in the game.

Thereis not such thing as a 100% error free wireless connection.  It cannot happen.  It will never happen.

Which is exactly what Skuzzy said.   

Looks to me like he said that there are issues that i am blaming on something else when I saw no noticeable issues to blame on anything until the latest update. In other words sounds like the issues were detectable and i was attributing them to something else. In reality i saw no issues. My net status was flat line, i saw no stutters, i had no garbled vox, no warping, and framerates that i have never seen since.

This is the way I took his post.

[Denholm]

Have you tried the usual Ping-Plot to determine if this is a connection issue?

[Vulcan]

The simple facts are wireless is a half duplex connection (it cannot send and receive simultaneously), it is prone to interference that wired is not prone too, and it does odd things such as renegotiate speeds mid-connection.

You may also take a CPU hit if you're using WPA2 encryption (which you should be using as all other wireless security except ipsec is a waste of effort).

Wireless will never beat wired as a connection. Wireless is a great backup medium to wired, but I wouldn't game over it.