(Still) Frustrating Internet

[Spork829]

So I bought the motherboard I'm currently using a while ago, and also bought a powerline adapter for it, because it has no built-in wifi. This worked terribly for me; had very poor speeds and was stuttery and inconsistent. Taking the advice of this forum, I bought a PCIe wifi card, specifically this one. When I first started using it, it was only slightly less jittery and inconsistent, so I started this thread. Someone very helpful explained to me how to reinstall the driver for the wifi card in Windows 8.1 comparability mode, because apparently TP-Link doesn't support Windows 10 on this card, which I'm running. That helped quite a bit. Speeds are vastly improved, but jitters remain. When in a game, I will basically completely disconnect and everything will freeze for about half a second, once every thirty seconds or so. What's odd is that this only happens sometimes, and it doesn't seem to affect video streaming or even live streaming to Twitch at all. Is there anything else I can try? Is it possible that my motherboard could be causing these jitters to happen with multiple devices? Or is my adapter just a bad product which I should return? Thanks.

[Wombo]

That's WiFi for you. Seems like the airwaves were just exceptionally bad at those times. Anything that can pre-buffer kept on trucking. However real-time communications such as online game interaction would be affected.

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, Wombo said:

That's WiFi for you. Seems like the airwaves were just exceptionally bad at those times. Anything that can pre-buffer kept on trucking. However real-time communications such as online game interaction would be affected.

Okay. I just find it odd because when I was using my old computer before I built my current one, which had a mobo with onboard wifi, I never had these problems. Could it be that our router is just getting old?

[Djole123]

Maybe it's the router issue

[Wombo]

7 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

Okay. I just find it odd because when I was using my old computer before I built my current one, which had a mobo with onboard wifi, I never had these problems. Could it be that our router is just getting old?

Could be, could also be the location of your current PC/where the antenna are and how they are oriented.

 

If possible try to have the antenna be unobstructed, especially by metal. If the card has multiple antenna they should be oriented 90 degrees to eachother so you have one vertical and one horizontal. If you have a 3rd antenna use any orientation between the other two.