wifi connection dropping! HELP

[connrad96]

Hey all, I have a virgin media superhub 2 or something, I have a pcie WiFi card and it randomly drops connection it still sees all WiFi connections around me then takes a minute or so to connect to my WiFi after it drops also happens occasionally on my laptop range is fine stays at 4 bars cheers and if it's in the wrong forum or thread or whatever it is haha could someone direct me thanks again

[Altecice]

the SH2 wifi is terrible! (owned of one myself) If I used it more than I do I would put it into modem mode and buy a new router for wifi.

try turning down the security password settings. 

[connrad96]

Is there anything else I can try also any cost effective WiFi routor I don't Care about usb and all them features but is there also one that has 5ghz just wanna get my ping down its at 55ms but can go to 250ms and Ethernet is a defo no go cheers sorry about the awkward question

[Altecice]

Is there anything else I can try also any cost effective WiFi routor I don't Care about usb and all them features but is there also one that has 5ghz just wanna get my ping down its at 55ms but can go to 250ms and Ethernet is a defo no go cheers sorry about the awkward question

 

the USB port is disabled on the SH2. it was tested in beta but they decided to shelf the idea for now as it was unstable during testing. 

what are your requirements for a new router/ how far away is it to your PC.

[Semper]

There are plenty of cost effective routers out there, but it all depends on your price range.

 

I'm not sure how you expect a 5GHz band to lower your ping... but that said, over Wi-Fi, capping at 250ms is actually fairly decent.

[connrad96]

Seems typical haha and gaming really that's all, It's in my living room and the computers in the room directly above so 20 metres maybe with 2 Walls in the way I changed the channel it was on also to avoid interference strangely increased signal no luck on speeds however

[connrad96]

I'm a noob haha I always thought ping was the time it took for computer to communicate between router then router to the internet but I'm very new to all this

[legopc]

Is there anything else I can try also any cost effective WiFi routor I don't Care about usb and all them features but is there also one that has 5ghz just wanna get my ping down its at 55ms but can go to 250ms and Ethernet is a defo no go cheers sorry about the awkward question

personaly for a cheap router i would say get a wr841n i have had 2 and they both worked fine (up untill i had to fuck one up :L) 

[Altecice]

try using the 2.4 network. the 5ghz network has less of a range.

[connrad96]

Okay will give it a shot and I've had to use 2.4ghz because my WiFi card only has that at the moment but is there any way to lower the ping

[Semper]

Hardwiring will improve latency, but you will still be bound to the mercy... erm, the quality... of your ISP's infrastructure.

 

In my experience, for residential use DSL has the best ping in my area, but the lowest bandwidth, and the worst support (GO AT&T! </sarcasm>)

Cable has an average, if unexceptional ping, the highest bandwidth, and infinitely better support than AT&T (And honestly, to hear that from Time Warner, a company know for shitty support is, to say the least, shocking)

 

with AT&T, I was able to regularly ping across the country with low jitter, extremely low packet loss, and really good response times (often being less than 100ms)

with TWC, my ping hovers constant around ~50ms to servers nearby, while to ping across the country is usually in excess of 500. I've had my ping spike as high as 18k across the country.

 

TL;DR, switch ISP's... however, as I said above, a 250ms cap is honestly not bad at all.

[connrad96]

Ahhh okay thank you the help is greatly appreciated I'm gonna see what's going on with the Routor as I can't change isp because it isn't my home at the moment but will see what I can do