Help Reducing Packet Loss

[Tena]

Hello all!,

 

I travel alot because of work so im constantly using hotel networks to connect my devices to WiFi. I usually bring my gaming laptop so I can enjoy playing games on my time off, but sometimes the internet is good but I get packet loss in some games which is kind of frustrating to play like that, im thinking on buying a WiFi Router with good QoS as a fix to my problem but I dont have much experience with networks so a little help would be nice.

 

Thanks!

[Needfuldoer]

Bringing your own access point might only help if you connect it to a wired port provided by the hotel. (And if you have that, you might as well just plug your laptop in.) If it's connecting to the same WiFi as you've been connecting your laptop, it won't make a lick of difference.

 

Since 'free' hotel WiFi is usually rate limited, minimize the amount of extra traffic your PC is generating. (Don't let games update, exit out of background programs you aren't actively using, etc.) Or, pay the extra surcharge for the faster connection.

 

[Alex Atkin UK]

29 minutes ago, Tena said:

Hello all!,

 

I travel alot because of work so im constantly using hotel networks to connect my devices to WiFi. I usually bring my gaming laptop so I can enjoy playing games on my time off, but sometimes the internet is good but I get packet loss in some games which is kind of frustrating to play like that, im thinking on buying a WiFi Router with good QoS as a fix to my problem but I dont have much experience with networks so a little help would be nice.

 

Thanks!

QoS only works if you have control of ALL the traffic going over that Internet connection.  Hotel WiFi is likely to be very overloaded, there isn't really anything you can do to fix it.

 

Every time I've been in a hotel I've found using my phones connection works better than the hotel WiFi.

Even then, were talking barely good enough to browse the web, I wouldn't have even attempted gaming.  Was really glitchy trying to connect to my home VPN.

 

Using a router as a WiFi client could get a stronger WiFi signal which might improve speed, which may slightly improve latency and packet loss if its an issue with a weak WiFi signal.  But if its the network being overloaded, you're out of luck.

[ToboRobot]

30 minutes ago, Tena said:

Hello all!,

 

I travel alot because of work so im constantly using hotel networks to connect my devices to WiFi. I usually bring my gaming laptop so I can enjoy playing games on my time off, but sometimes the internet is good but I get packet loss in some games which is kind of frustrating to play like that, im thinking on buying a WiFi Router with good QoS as a fix to my problem but I dont have much experience with networks so a little help would be nice.

 

Thanks!

Another device (extra hop on the network) isn't going to improve an internet connection.

Sometimes there is a business office in the hotel with better hardwired connections, but a new router in your hotel room isn't going to do anything.