Wireless gaming on the JHG73-B1

I'm currently in University and living with a friend. We keep our router and modem in her room because mine doesn't have the necessary plugin and therefore I have to make do with Wireless internet most of the time.

The internet is fine as far as speed and reliability (for streaming and the such), but gaming is just awful. For example on TF2 everything plays fine except a spike every 5-10 minutes of play time, the spikes last 2-3 seconds and usually ends with me dying. Our router is decent and our internet is highspeed, occasionally when we LAN I take my laptop to her room and I use my ethernet cable. That, obviously, is much better and causes no problems whatsoever.

When I had Vista on my old laptop, all I had to do was disable autoconfig and wireless gaming works decently. But with this new laptop and windows 7 everything is crappy again.

Is there anything I can do on this beast of a laptop to optimize wireless gaming? Has anyone here run into some similar problems? Any input/advice is very much appreciated because I would rather not invest in a 200 ft ethernet cable.

Thanks in advance guys.

 

Have you tried wireless gaming in her room and reproduce the same problem? (just to know if the problem only exists when you're on certain locations)

 

I...have not. I really don't think it's much of a location issue because I get maximum amount of bars. Also our rooms are not all that far apart.

I'll try it though. It'l be something weird to ask at 11:31 PM at night but I'll post the results in a sec.

EDIT:

It's the same.

 

Replace that cheap POS Atheros wifi card you got and get an Intel 6200/6300. Cheap and easy to replace, and gives you much better N support, plus 5GHz support.

 

Really, sounds like a hassle though since I'm fairly computer illiterate in terms of tampering with hardware. I'll look into it nevertheless, thanks.

 

Newegg.com - Intel 622AN.HMWWB Mini PCI Express 6200 Centrino Advanced-N Wireless Adapter Up to 300Mbps Wireless Data Rates 64/128-Bit WEP, WPA, WPA2

Open the bottom plate, gently pop off the 2 antennae wires, unscrew the little WiFi Card, pop it up and lift, insert new one, screw it into place, reattach the 2 wires, replace bottom plate. Start machine and install Intel 6200 Wifi drivers from my driver page. Profit and enjoy your new WiFi experience.

 

By the way Chastity, I haven't seen anyone here on NBR making use of G73's "ANT" near the right exhaust fan. I've read somewhere that it's intended for external antenna or something, how do we make use of that if ever?

 

You can pop the piece of rubber out, stick the external antenna male plug out(whatever they're called), and attach the antenna which has the female end and voila.

 

What are some of the reasons/benefits why adding up an external antenna?

 

That would be the antennae port for the onboard TV Tuner

 

Ohh boy. That does seem pretty cheap. Thanks.

Think I can buy one of these from Memory Express?

 

Just make sure your dealer is an Authorized Rep for Intel, else you run the risk of getting an ES non-working model.

 

Argh. Neither my local vendor nor newegg.ca sells this product. I'll look into something similar I suppose.

It's still a little discouraging, though, to think that the only way for wireless to work properly is to replace the adapter altogether. Asus shouldn't have cheaped out on something so vital.

 

EDIT:

Well I felt like updating this because the problem is fixed!

Basically I disabled Network Throttling through the registry and started using the WLAN Optimizer (Disable scans/Enable streaming mode only). So far so good, I get good ping and have not experienced any spikes thus far. Wireless gaming may just work out for me after all.

Sorry for bumping this thread. Just thought I'd share the results with anyone who would like to make similar adjustments.

 

Never apologize for sharing a working solution.