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February 27, 2005
Linksys Wireless-G Problems and World of Warcraft (WoW)
World of Warcraft is an excellent game; I purchased it last week and was up and running in 30mins after a huge 4 disc load. I started learning the ropes and had a good few hours play. The next day I fired it up I was getting intermittent connection problems and after logging into the game the ping bar would gradually, sometimes immediately, go red. WoW is pretty much unplayable when this happens. I persevered for a couple of days putting it down to network traffic etc. and then started looking around for some more info on the problem.
After reading around the subject and trying the wireless connection once more I decided to swap out the Linksys Wireless-G PCI card for a standard wired 3-com PCI and immediately the problem was solved, WoW now runs fine and is totally lag free. :-)
I'm not entirely sure the wireless problem is solely to do with WoW as I have experienced similar problems in other games, but they have normally worked on a reboot or several. Strangely the wireless problems also only occurred when I was running the game, I could task switch and the wireless connection would suddenly spring back to life. I tested this on WoW by pinging the wireless machine...In game I would get 'request timed out' or absurdly large request times and when I task switched back to the desktop I would suddenly start getting 2ms, 3ms response times, strange.
Posted by swoodvox at February 27, 2005 12:42 AM
Comments
I get the same problem with linksys for COD and all other games. For a year it was fine and then this happened. It plays perfect for a minute or so, and then I lose connection and then it comes back [for a game like COD this is devastating :P ]...at first I put this down to probable spyware and formated pc...Still problem was there. Then I assumed it was my ISP or even my actual cable modem but this was untrue as my xbox live works fine when plugged directly into the wireless router box downstairs. Something is doing something to my wireless signal and making it drop suddening at almost clockwork precision timeing...ie i could almost say about 45secs or something. My only guess would be something is interfering with the 2.4ghz singnal..but i can't think what. I don't see anything in the hose new that would affect it...Please sum1 help!
Mike 'the__jin@hotmail.com' Sheriff
Posted by: Mike at July 30, 2005 10:54 AM