Horrible networking

[MathB]

Hi, I'm from Belgium, the european country with the worst networking in the union (300k inhabitants but still adsl), my city is building a tram so there are lots of works.

I'm trying to enjoy online gaming but it is unplayable, I get disconnects that last from 2 to 15sec every other minute...

This is an issue because it prevents me from playing anything that isn't turn based and sometimes disconnects me from discord, it's been going on for weeks.

I called my isp allready, the line worked when they checked so they won't do anything about the connection working part time.

 

I do not have acess to ethernet, exept if I go cpl plus laptop dongle, and the house is from the 18 hundreds so I dont think the electrical would do well with the cpl, I can't drill either because we are renting.

 

Things I tryed:

I did speeds and ping tests via websites, speed is fine (~10 Mbytes/s) and ping doesn't appear to go over 250ms (avg ~20ms).

I installed inSSider and looked at the wifi channels, my wifi is the only one on its channel and I have rather good signal -61 dBm.

 

How do I test to know wether the problem is with the adsl line (tram works all over the city), my router, or my laptop's wifi card ?

 

 

 

 

[Donut417]

29 minutes ago, MathB said:

How do I test to know wether the problem is with the adsl line (tram works all over the city), my router, or my laptop's wifi card ?

Do you have physical access to the router so that you could temporarily use Ethernet? If so, you run your tests via Ethernet. If all works well then its most likely a WiFI related issue. IF not then its an issue with the aDSL line. Because the long and the short of it is you need to figure out what's to blame before you go on spending money to fix the problem. 

[MathB]

I tested with another laptop for half an hour and I does appear to work fine on both ethernet and wifi, so I supose it is my laptops wifi card... to bad it's almost brand new.

Is their further ways to test your laptop's wifi card ?

[Donut417]

10 hours ago, MathB said:

s their further ways to test your laptop's wifi card ?

The issue is depending on the building materials of the laptop and where the antennas are can really determine how well WiFi will work. Also the type of card matters as well. Most Laptop WiFi antennas are built in to the screen. I have heard in the past with Laptops makers using Aluminum to build the laptops chassis and it would block the WIFi and bluetooth signals. As you indicate its a new laptop I would figure it has WIFI 5 or WiFi 6. I do know when I replace my sisters old laptop's WiFi card from WIFi 4 to WiFi 5, it made a world of difference. 

 

The other issue is laptop WiFi cards while easy to replace physically. Some laptop manufactures like Lenovo can have a white list in the BIOS of what cards they will allow to work. So that can make it difficult to figure what what cards to buy.