Ok here's the scoop..
I play Counter-Strike and CoD UO online. While playing I get consistant and yet random little "lag spikes".. They normally last about a second or two. But anyone whos plays a FPS knows that is enough to really suck.. I'm running a wireless network on a cable modem.. They router is not very far from my adapter so I dont think its a distance thing.. I'm trying to look for a monitoring tool to see the activity on my connection or figure out wtf is causing this..
Anyone have any ideas? If you need more info let me know.
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Go wired as Zae said first.
If the problem goes away, the problem is your wireless infrastructure (i.e. WAP/WNIC).
If the problem doesn't go away start a continuous PING to the gateway that your local router/firewall is using. DNS servers could also work. If all of the times are consistent for a period of time longer than the timeframe where you'd normally see a lag spike, then ping something like yahoo.com and see if the PING times jump.
If you see PING times jump in the first test, that is either a problem with your gear, or with your cable/dsl company. If you have the same issue only in the second test, potentially the issue is with the cable/dsl company and their connection out to the Internet.
Hope that's helpful.
If the problem goes away, the problem is your wireless infrastructure (i.e. WAP/WNIC).
If the problem doesn't go away start a continuous PING to the gateway that your local router/firewall is using. DNS servers could also work. If all of the times are consistent for a period of time longer than the timeframe where you'd normally see a lag spike, then ping something like yahoo.com and see if the PING times jump.
If you see PING times jump in the first test, that is either a problem with your gear, or with your cable/dsl company. If you have the same issue only in the second test, potentially the issue is with the cable/dsl company and their connection out to the Internet.
Hope that's helpful.