Slow Streaming

Harudath

Hai,

Nothing urgent here, but it is quite annoying >.< Our internet speed is fine, between 1700 and 2700kbps, and the router - adapter connection is usually fine, although it does drop to 1mbps alot. Does anyone know how to fix this? Another issue I've had is that the internet connection and speed may be perfectly fine, but streaming videos on youtube for example, as well as other sites can take a damn long time. Any advice? Using a Linksys Wireless G WA54G Router and a WUSB54GS adapter.

EDIT Upload speed, last I checked was 380kbps

kryyst

If you don't have stable wireless connection it'll effect streaming as it'll then start buffering.

If your wifi is dropping to 1mb frequently then you've got something that is interfering with your signal. Could be cordless phones, microwave, wireless video game controllers etc.....

Beyond that try changing the wireless channel you are using, possibly adding an antenna booster could help.

Harudath

We've tried the other channels, 7 is the strongest- If the connection is stable when it's streaming, would that still affect it? It's not gone to 1mbps lately too, yet the streaming's been bad still

kryyst

If you have a stable wifi connection thats at least 10mb then it shouldn't effect streaming. However if your connection is fast you could still be suffering packet loss.

Are you in a situation where you can wire into the router to narrow down the potential problem. Also is it just your computer that is having issues streaming or every computer on your network?

Harudath

All the PCs are experiencing slow internet a couple times a day, I can plug it into the router, but I don't have an ethernet cable long enough- a friend is coming round this weekend and he's got one long enough, so I'll try that

kryyst

ahhh so it happens a couple of times a day....that could be the key. May be nothing you can do at all on your end. Specially if it's somewhat regular when it occurs, like say right around 5:30pm when everyone is getting home from work for example.

Are you on cable or dsl?

Harudath

DSL, and people round here aren't very internet-active... Nice village so it's full of old folk or people that believe electricity is the spawn of satan, so.... but some days it's fine, some days it isn't, as far as we've been able to tell it's whenever it feels like throwing a tantrum

kryyst

DSL shouldn't be effected by load then since it's not a hub system like cable is. Which means it's likely something on your network that's causing the issue. First I'd wire in and see if that solves the problem. If not then could be a problem with your router.

You should do this anyway. But make sure the router firmware is up to date. Now you do have a 54G router, which means you can run alternate firmware on that bad boy. Which router specifically and version is it? That'll determine which firmware you can put on it.

Before that road though is it your router or do you have permission to work on it?

Harudath

Wireless-G ADSL Gateway WAG54G V.2

Firmware Version: 1.02.23

I have access to the setup page, it's not my router but I'm pretty much admin I can tinker with it as long as nothing's going to risk making the internet un-usable

kryyst

Not that this will be any consolation to you but google is telling me that connection drops, slow transfers and other random glitches seem to be the common thread when searching for your router - you are not alone. Unfortunately I haven't found anyone else yet that has had a good answer to the issue just a lot of - try this type solutions.

Also there are no custom firmware that currently work for that router, though there are some in the works.

So it looks like you may have to trouble shoot things the hard way. Remove every computer from the connection but 1. Make sure that computer is wired in and not wireless and see if the problem happens. if it does try a different computer...etc.... Need to narrow down if it's the router or the computer(s) that are having the issue.

Oh and it looks like your machine has the latest firmware. So no possible solution there.

Other things to try. You could try changing the DNS servers your using to 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 that *may* help. But again this is all just guess work. Not really much else to do.