ivansmashem
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Hi everyone. Name's Josh. Allow me to preface this by saying that I'm pretty bad with wireless stuff, so if there's additional information I should give, please feel free to let me know and I'll get on it as soon as I can.
For quite some time now (years, actually) I would have an issue where my ping would occasionally go through the roof. It didn't happen all that often, so I wasn't too concerned about it.
Recently, however, I can't stay connected to Mumble/Starcraft/Any website for longer than a few minutes without suffering TONS of lost packets. Every time I do a tracert to my Mumble server, I time out at least once along the way. I do eventually always seem to reconnect (5-30 seconds usually), but it's just a giant pain in the butt.
Some more background...
This has been the case for both of my computers (first one ran Windows XP, new one running Windows 7). Both were 64-bit versions of Windows. I originally had a WRT54G router from Linksys which I used with my old Laptop (the one computer with which I've NEVER had a problem until it finally died), and I had a matching Linksys wireless PCI card, as well. That combination had this problem on both computers.
So then I got a new Wireless Ethernet Bridge (Zyxel WAP3205) and had the issues with that, as well (both computers). So then I got a new router (Cisco-Linksys E4200) and had the same problem still (only with new computer, as old XP computer is now dead). With the new computer, every combination of Router, Bridge and Wireless NIC has the same exact problem. I tried shortening the distance between Bridge and Router, but it doesn't seem to help at all.
I have tried every setup available on my router except for using the 5.0GHz band, as my wireless card and Bridge do not support it.
The new (6 months) computer I am trying to get everything to run on is the Windows 7 one. I have an Intel 10/100/1000 NIC for connecting the Wireless Ethernet Bridge via a Cat5 cable. I have updated the driver for that to the latest version and checked all other settings I could using the Intel Proset driver to check that everything was OK.
The firmware for the E4200 is up to date. The firmware WAS up to date at the time for the Linksys router, but it's basically overused (8yrs) into useless now, so I'd prefer not to do any testing with that. The configuration I am mainly using to attempt to determine the problem (since every setup has the same problem, fixing it in one place seems like it'll get me closer to, if not straight find, the answer) is the following:
Windows 7 64-bit Computer
Intel EXPI9301CTBLK NIC
Zyxel WAP3205 Wireless Ethernet Bridge
Cisco-Linksys E4200 Wireless Router
I am planning on replacing the Ethernet Bridge, anyway, so it's no big loss if I end up needing to in order to help fix this problem, but I was hoping not to buy anything new until I actually figure out what the problem is.
I've been troubleshooting this for a long time now with a couple friends of mine, and I am basically just in the dark without a clue at this point. Any help is greatly appreciated. Even if you aren't a wireless expert, I am nowhere close, so I'm pretty sure that there are plenty of things I haven't tried yet that may be correct, but I will never find them without being pointed in the right direction.
Thanks so far for your time reading this, and I'll check back tomorrow! Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help provide more information, as I'm sure what is listed here is very vague, and I'm not sure how to come up with a concrete way of showing what my problem is.
For quite some time now (years, actually) I would have an issue where my ping would occasionally go through the roof. It didn't happen all that often, so I wasn't too concerned about it.
Recently, however, I can't stay connected to Mumble/Starcraft/Any website for longer than a few minutes without suffering TONS of lost packets. Every time I do a tracert to my Mumble server, I time out at least once along the way. I do eventually always seem to reconnect (5-30 seconds usually), but it's just a giant pain in the butt.
Some more background...
This has been the case for both of my computers (first one ran Windows XP, new one running Windows 7). Both were 64-bit versions of Windows. I originally had a WRT54G router from Linksys which I used with my old Laptop (the one computer with which I've NEVER had a problem until it finally died), and I had a matching Linksys wireless PCI card, as well. That combination had this problem on both computers.
So then I got a new Wireless Ethernet Bridge (Zyxel WAP3205) and had the issues with that, as well (both computers). So then I got a new router (Cisco-Linksys E4200) and had the same problem still (only with new computer, as old XP computer is now dead). With the new computer, every combination of Router, Bridge and Wireless NIC has the same exact problem. I tried shortening the distance between Bridge and Router, but it doesn't seem to help at all.
I have tried every setup available on my router except for using the 5.0GHz band, as my wireless card and Bridge do not support it.
The new (6 months) computer I am trying to get everything to run on is the Windows 7 one. I have an Intel 10/100/1000 NIC for connecting the Wireless Ethernet Bridge via a Cat5 cable. I have updated the driver for that to the latest version and checked all other settings I could using the Intel Proset driver to check that everything was OK.
The firmware for the E4200 is up to date. The firmware WAS up to date at the time for the Linksys router, but it's basically overused (8yrs) into useless now, so I'd prefer not to do any testing with that. The configuration I am mainly using to attempt to determine the problem (since every setup has the same problem, fixing it in one place seems like it'll get me closer to, if not straight find, the answer) is the following:
Windows 7 64-bit Computer
Intel EXPI9301CTBLK NIC
Zyxel WAP3205 Wireless Ethernet Bridge
Cisco-Linksys E4200 Wireless Router
I am planning on replacing the Ethernet Bridge, anyway, so it's no big loss if I end up needing to in order to help fix this problem, but I was hoping not to buy anything new until I actually figure out what the problem is.
I've been troubleshooting this for a long time now with a couple friends of mine, and I am basically just in the dark without a clue at this point. Any help is greatly appreciated. Even if you aren't a wireless expert, I am nowhere close, so I'm pretty sure that there are plenty of things I haven't tried yet that may be correct, but I will never find them without being pointed in the right direction.
Thanks so far for your time reading this, and I'll check back tomorrow! Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help provide more information, as I'm sure what is listed here is very vague, and I'm not sure how to come up with a concrete way of showing what my problem is.