Lag...Vista...Help (wireless, clearwire)

[OrcForklift]

Hello i am connected through a wireless network, it says @54 mbps. I cant come down below a 200 ping on any server i have tried yet, and it is usually around 400= im not going to bother playing. i have tried direct ethernet from the modem, still no better. i havent tried another network yet, but there is not much point because i wont be playing anywhere but home. i am using clearwire, which is basically a radio broadband thing, but ive seen xbox360 games run online with it in the same area i'm at no problem. i used to play quake years ago on a 56k and got playable pings with that, so i don't think it's clearwire, but if anyone has suggestions im wide open. thanks

[OrcForklift]

oh yeah...

forgot to mention im running vista, and im playing through glpro ....but it runs fine, no fps damage or anything, like a beauty.

[Baker]

I just connected to a server with GLPro on Vista thru my wireless router and got a dodgy 68-115 ping.

My normal ping to the server I tried is around 40 and I've been having some issues with my wireless lately (there seem to be at least 10 wireless routers I can connect to other than my own so maybe someone else's wireless is interfering with mine somehow).

I would think that bad route thru your ISP would be the majority of the blame. Clearwire seems to be a WiMax service and I imagine the first couple of hops with a wireless ISP would be less than ideal (this is just speculation since wireless even in a home is lower performance than an ethernet cable, no first hand experience with any wireless ISP).

[OrcForklift]

i have run other games and none lag like this, and my upload and download speeds on any website or p2p program on this connection are almost as fast as my old cable connection. the upload with clearwire is slower than the download, i forgot the ratio, so possibly it is an inbalance in packets some how? quake in the old days could be played on a 28.8 modem dial up through a laggy client(quakeTEN) and still have better ping (170-250) then what i am getting now, which is more around 500-700 once i actually join the game and start trying to move and shoot, so something is very out of line.

[OrcForklift]

ah just read about clearwire supposively blocking certain p2p ports, if this is the case is there anything i can do?

[Baker]

I've done some reading up on clearwire and from what I can tell they do block a lot of different ports to prevent a lot of different types of bandwidth usage (torrents, Kazaa, p2p, serving web pages, etc.)

I don't think you'll be able to play a good game of Quake online using the connection.

[foq]

/Agree with Baker
If the 360 runs fine on it and QUAKE won't, then I guess your connection is gayed. Must be more directed to console gamers and general Internet surfers.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

dont lose hope,call your ISP and bitch,and ask for a techie,and if that dont happen,bitch some more.

much can be accomplished when you simply bitch!its just who you bitch at is whether any thing gets accomplished or not hah

[Baker]

dont lose hope,call your ISP and bitch,and ask for a techie,and if that dont happen,bitch some more.

much can be accomplished when you simply bitch!its just who you bitch at is whether any thing gets accomplished or not hah

Me thinks that will not work with this ISP. Apparently the service is gayed by design because they have a finite amount of bandwidth for a given area of customers.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050325/1128226.shtml

[flay]

i work for a wireless broadband company in the uk, best to start pinging the gateway ip address issued to you, if the ping is high then you know its the wireless letting you down.
Interference is a real problem because noise does not degrade signal, so you may have a signal strength high enough to support 54Mb etc but if there is high noise then the ping will be higher.

If you have a wireless router then scan for other routers with a laptop and note the channels used, then select a channel on your router to be different, ie you pick up channels 6,11,13 so select channel 1 or something, this will avoid interference on your lan.
Wireless isps operate the same way.

ps sorry about spelling

[flay]

ah just read about clearwire supposively blocking certain p2p ports, if this is the case is there anything i can do?

the company i work for blocks ports as all the home users go out on the same public address, however business customers get there own ip, see if they offer a fixed public ip option as no ports should be blocked