Ok to cut a long story short about a week ago optus decided to cut off our net as they thought we didnt want it anymore for some reason. the lines were really old and all we could get, now the lines can never be used again so we had to go on a wireless plan with telstra.

 

So now i plug this small box in to my pc as i dont have any wireless adapter thing for it (sierra wireless telstra ultimate) and i ping massive on PR although its actuly a faster connection i sit on 100 and every 6 sec's i hit 900, i am verrry anoyyed if anybody can help that would be fantastic

I know there is some optimisation that can be done with a connection between your PC and Wireless Router but I have no idea if it applies to a Wireless net connection.

 

Thats just what happens with a wireless connection, it isn't very good for gaming because you get ping spikes and packetloss. The only ultimate fix is to get a wired connection again

If i could get a wired i would tommorrow but although i live in a very populated area that is not scummy at all nobody wants to upgrade the 50 houses that are to use crap

Satellite & 3G internet for gaming = massively bad.

 

I'm afraid the best you can do is hope that it improves somehow, or that your street gets re-lined with cable (probably with the NBN).

mabey one day. so pissed off i was happy on my 50 kb connection then some muppet called John told em to turn it off

Are you using a USB wireless dongle or something else?

 

Sorry I missed the part where you named it :shh:

 

//EDIT//

For those dongles you can get an external antenna for them which will increase your reception and its' connection reliability. Basically as those things heat up (I found mostly with gaming as it's constantly working) they start to cause packet loss or ping spikes. I ended up grabbing an external antenna from work and running that which helped substantially. Seemed to run quite a bit cooler and could get about 1.5 -2 hours out of a connection.

 

Somewhere in the software for that there should be a signal strength and stability monitor (or at least the Optus gear did). This basically showed how the connection was going, node changes and reception drop outs. Another thing to watch for will be peak times. As more clients pass traffic through the tower you are connected through your connection can be closed, transferred to another node and restarted (I can't remember what they called it), which for gaming is highly detrimental as although it only takes a fraction of a second for the connection to be re-established your ping will have spiked and the time it takes to stabilize the server will have kicked you.

 

Hope some of this helps. I luckily was between moves so only had to deal with it for 9 months

Edited July 26, 201113 yr by rohan11221

yeah thanks aparently i can buy an antenna i hope it will help

It may, if your connection is already full strength I don't imagine it will help a great deal except keeping your adapters temperature down. If your strength is mid - low then I would say it has a fair chance at working/improving.

Psyrus has some good links/info here:

 

Having searched whirlpool and read a few of the threads, it seems like it is reasonable to expect sub 100ms pings with wireless (3G) broadband these days, which surprised me because I had always thought it was 200ms minimum, but then again I've never used nor had the inclination to use wireless BB for anything other than emails-on-the-go.

 

What you want to do is try to investigate cell/network congestion with the various providers in your area, to ascertain the one that will provide not necessarily the best bandwidth, but the most stable connection. As more users congest an access point, your ping can begin to fluctuate wildly, but I believe that is only the case when an access point is oversubscribed (a means of cost cutting).

 

Edit: And by the way, PR uses on average (for a full game with voip & TS & Mumble) around 50-80MB per hour, which is roughly equivalent to 20-25kB/s download. Upstream requirement is much less. That's achievable [very much so] on 3G connections, although with congestion it can be worse.

Thanks man you have been a good help