Wireless drop-outs

by **ar1stotle** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:42 am

OK, I love my new laptop. However, there's one thing that's been bugging me. Whenever I play online games, every few minutes or so I'll get a horrible lag spike. The wireless card is a RTL8187B. Anyone know of a program I can use to monitor the wireless connection so I can get some data on how often the connection gets lost? I want to test it against a USB wireless card I have but if I have some nice software that will do the dirty work without my intervention that'd be awesome.

by **yeshuas** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:52 am

When you are playing do you have any other computers running anything on the network, I'm not only talking wireless network, but also connected via RJ45? Reason I asked is my son plays games with his laptop and he would get a droop, or his latency would be affected if "folding at home" was running. Seems it would pick the most inappropriate time to download or upload or whatever

by **EXTREMEoverclocker** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:26 pm

ya i had a buddy play on wireless .... he would always get a nasty lag spike about every 2-3-4 mins its just mostly what wireless does :/
i had wireless for like a week and it did it to me also so i hardwired everything haha

by **ar1stotle** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:26 pm

Nah nothing else is running. I've had wireless on my desktop forever and have never had a problem. It's only been on this laptop.

by **yeshuas** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:05 am

Is your card built in or is it a USB device, if it is USB that is probably your problem. I haven't seen one yet that was any good.

by **ar1stotle** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:53 am

Built in

by **ar1stotle** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:27 am

Anyone ever replaced the built in card? I'd assume it would be pretty easy... but do like the wireless toggle switches still work afterward? And on the same note, anyone an expert on wireless chipsets?

by **yeshuas** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:34 am

I have replaced one with the same type, model and everything

by **ar1stotle** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:28 am

Well I'm considering getting a new/better one. Just want to make sure it's easy and that I get the right replacement... of course that's only if I can get a cheap replacement. Otherwise I'll just deal with it :-/

by **imnuts** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:36 pm

Some internal wireless cards may not be able to be replaced as they would be soldered onto the mobo and have an antennae connection that ran through the laptop. Others are replaceable, but I'm guessing that you can only replace them with the same make/model, and it's possible that each OEM laptop maker has their own type of card that they make for the systems.

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