Howdy all…
While this is not my first foray into WiFi, I am still a newbie. Here’s the lowdown on my problem(s).
The way my house is built, teh addition at the rear exists “outside” of the original house. This means that there is a brick ‘exterior’ wall between it and the rest of the house. Sadly when the phone/cable company came to wire the place for VoIP phone service and high speed internet, they chose that part of the house to do it in, less structural damage or something.
I had a Motorola wireless router previously… I’m not sure of the model number and I don’t want to search for it at the moment… regardless it had a problem with wireless signal range. The main computer was about 25-30 feet away and was getting a signal strength of 30-60%. I purchased a Linksys WRT54G wireless router to replace it. It even had 2 antennae!!
I am now having issues with the WRT54G that I never had with the motorola. While the signal strength is exceptional (I’m getting 80-90% signal strength upstairs!) it has brought with it lag spikes. I play World of Warcraft and there is very noticeable lag that never ocurred before. My game will pause for anywhere from 10 seconds to 2 minutes. The motorola never caused this.
I’ve setup the router to use WPA2 Personal security with the group renewal rate at 3600 seconds. I’ve limited the DHCP pool to 5 addresses (the max number of connected devices I own) and I’ve gone out of my way to find info on the Net looking for a cause. I’m using NetStumbler which tells me there is no signal interference and I’m not sure what else I could be looking for.
Any questions or help is much appreciated!! I’ll try my best to provide what info you require to help resolve this.
Router: Linksys WRT54G
PC1: Cyber Station NW-5411 Wireless PCI (802.11b/g)
PC2: Cyber Station NW-5411 Wireless USB (802.11b/g)
Thanks!
