VeeshanVault

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.

Try turning off Windows Zero Configuration (and try not playing FPS on wireless... =)

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.