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Question

Always spikes with Qualcomm Atheros AR938x Adapter, help?

Aug 30, 2017 9:29AM PDT

Hi, i'm hoping for some advice. I'm using wifi, and there are 10 other apartmens in the building. The building have three routers or so. I'm not sure which card I'm using, as it only says Qualcomm Atheros AR938x Adapter in the device manager, but I think it's a TP-LINK TL-WN951N 11n.

The last month i've been having issues spikes and it doesnt matter if its day or night. Typical ping in cmd is 9, 9, 13, 458, 234, 21, 9, 9, 500, 340, 30, 9, 9ms all the time. The speed is 30 down and 10 up in speedtests, and before it was completely fine with no lag, except when people were downloading a lot.

I've tried updating the network driver, turning off firewalls, connecting to other network (normal instead of 5ghz) but nothing seems to work.

However, I cant connect using a cable because the slots are taken, and the router is pretty far away from my apartment. And I. do not have access to the network settings. I've talked to my landlord, noone else seems to have this problem.

I should also mention that my laptop has lower ms with no spikes in cmd. I'm gonna try play a game or something and see if the network is better on it. But does anyone have advice regarding my computer?

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Aug 30, 2017 10:11AM PDT

Update: The ms on my laptop is fine (same network, same distance to router), also when playing games. Mostly around 40ms, sometimes 80-90 and rarely 200. So the problem is only on my computer, not my laptop.

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That's it.
Aug 30, 2017 10:32AM PDT

" the router is pretty far away from my apartment. "

Distance issues are bad for gamers. You'll want to deploy a link like the following.
Picture only.

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Thanks, but
Aug 30, 2017 12:33PM PDT

Thanks for the reply Happy The router is not _that_ far away, it's just difficult to run a cable between the router and my computer. The signal is okay enough, I've lived in this apartment for 3 years and both the ping and speed has been good. Well it was, until a few weeks ago. Before this I was able to play games without any spikes or lag, using the same wireless network adapter and the same router.

Update with my laptop: The ms is good on my laptop, so I disabled the wifi on my computer and i'm now bridging (?) through the laptops wifi. This works and the ms is now okay'ish, but many games does not seem to like this and the games keep crashing. And sometimes i get "request timed out" in cmd. So it's not really a good solution on long term..

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All it takes is for someone to start a new hot spot.
Aug 30, 2017 12:38PM PDT

Phones and other things do this now so because it worked before has little to do with today.

Anything over say 20 feet with walls and such and we deploy a bridge like I shared a picture with. There will be folk that want it to be a setting.