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[Avarice]

For the past few months, starting around June, I've been experiencing frequent disconnections, and they've been coinciding with activity on the laptop connected to the Dir-615 via LAN cable.

A friend told me in August to go into the console and change the wireless channel from auto scan, and that ended the disconnections, but then I started experiencing lag spikes every 15-25 seconds in a game that I am playing.

I bought the router sometime around april/may, and didn't have problems until June. I updated the firmware to 3.13 yesterday, where it had previously been at 3.10. I've also recently upgraded to Windows 7.

Is there any way that I can fix this?

[Trikein]

I would lean more towards the adapter settings or drivers on your wireless NIC. What kind does it have? Also, please re-explain the issue? So you have two laptops, one wired and one wireless? And the problem seems to happen while gaming on the wireless laptop while doing some type of heavy use on the wired laptop?

Come to think of it, if the issue was random disco which were resolved by turning off the auto scan, which then lead to lag spikes, your probably getting random interference on your wireless connection. Before it was enough to make the router jump to another wireless channel, and it wasn't communicating that change correctly with the laptop sometimes. And now that you turned it off, that same interference that used to cause the channel to changes, causes the lag spike. But thats speculation.

[Avarice]

It's an interesting speculation.


My first post was a bit less put together than usual, sorry.

Prior to changing the channel from auto scan, I would be gaming and any time someone used the laptop on the wired connection, I would get disconnected from my game. I'm not sure what type of activity specifically would cause it, but I suspect youtube and facebook to be the culprits.

After I selected a channel manually, I was not facing disconnections, but instead lag spikes every so often that did not need any known trigger to appear, such as activity elsewhere on the network.

WNIC: Realtek RTL8102E/RTL8103E Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.20)

[Trikein]

Maybe I am just tired, but isn't that your NIC? I was hoping to get your Wireless NIC so I can look up its manual and suggest any settings changes.

One thing you may want to try is go wired for a bit to the (usually) wireless laptop your having a problem with, and then try to push alot of heavy traffic through the normally wired laptop. Basically try to rule out wireless as issue. If you do, then I would blame QoS. Or perhaps a issue with a firewall, have you checked the logs around that time?

[Avarice]

My goodness, you're right. I should stop posting help needed topics after so many hours of wakefulness.

My WNIC really is Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter

Last night I had a friend assist again via TeamViewer and we found that after my upgrade to Windows 7, my Windows Firewall had been turned on again, so I was double firewalled. Prior to turning it off, I had about 9mbs download speed and .92mbs upload speed according to speedtest.net.

After we turned it off the download speed shot up to 20.37mbs, but the upload speed only went to 1.88mbs. It used to average 25/25.

The logs didn't state anything relevant from what I could remember, and my friend had cleared them all out.

I'll give the wired test a try sometime today. Thanks for the info.