CS:S/Steam issues
 

Running my laptop over a wireless network. Nearly all the time the wireless connection is fine. In fact the only time I really have issues is when playing CS:S.

I can be online for a while (time can be anything from 1 minute to 3 hours+) and then suddenly my wireless connection will drop :brickwall

It doesn't normally do this, is this a known problem?

no, the wireless wont know its CS:S, maybe its the upload being maxed out or something....

difficult one

perhaps it's doing it all the time, and you are only noticing it when you play cs:s?

Two things spring to mind:

- from a command prompt type "ping -t bbc.co.uk"
This will ping bbc until you tell it not to (ctrl + c) in the results you can see how many packets have failed (due to wireless being lost).

- Powersave cutting in?

As above, it could be that your wireless drops out fairly regularly, but you don't notice it, except for when playing CS:S.

I play WoW, and that will drop your connection from the server completely if the network drops out.

Have you tried playing with a cable conection to your router to rule out (or avoid) wireless problems.

I've found wireless to be a bit intermittent really; my network at home is all in CAT 5.

John.

:luxhello: excellent suggestion !!

pinging away at the moment. Average appears to be about 25ms is that good or bad?

packets lost = 1

let it run for a good 3 hours and then have a look.

packet loss is the one you are looking for.

25ms is pretty damn good especially over wireless

Really? won't BBC get the ar5e ache with me pinging them for 3 hours?

lol - they wont even notice

Left it running for about an hour, used the internet while it was running too.

Packets sent = 2180
Received = 2148
Lost = 32 (1%)
Minimum = 20ms, max 182ms, average = 31ms


I think my point is that whilst playing CS:S the line actually drops and I have to reconnect. It doesn't do this at all (although there may well be temporary interruptions that Iam unaware of) in normal use.

all it would take in cs:s to drop you would be 0.5 second of loss.

try running the ping at the same time as CS:S

When it drops - alt-tab and have a look - you might see one or two drops

Under XP my wireless card drops the connection when the CPU is heavily loaded. As soon as the load is reduced then the connection comes back up again, but it's a pain - printing to a network printer, for example, is woefully unreliable, and I dare say running games would cause the same problem.

Network adapter is a Dell WLAN 1350 802.11g mini-PCI card.

OK I'll do that.........

Running it on a brand new, uncluttered laptop,

Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 2.33GHz (4MB Level 2 Cache )
17" WUXGA+ X-Glass TFT Screen (1920 x 1200)
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 Go GTX 512MB
2GB DDR2 667MHz (1GB x 2)
180GB 7200rpm SATA
8x +/- Dual Layer DVD Writer
Windows Vista Home Premium


On a 4mb line.

What isp are you with

And which server are you attempting to play on ? Are they hosted by dustworld ?

If so dustworld have been having major problems with VM users over the past week or so. Could be related to that although unlikely unless you are attempting to play on the same server.

(nice laptop, Dell XPS per chance?)

Wanted an Alienware one but got reminded of the poor customer service so opted for the Rock Xtreme CTX Pro in the end. Very happy with it, been back for a new PSU which blew for some reason taking the mobo with it but the customer service was absolutely amazing. No problems whatsoever :notworthy

Can't remember why I didn't go for the Dell, probably the same issues as Alienware I think. I'm not disappointed. I watch 24 in my office at lunchtime in surround sound and they complain they can hear me downstairs :thumb:

I'm with mistral for some reason. Must get round to changing one day but you know what it's like.

Not sure what server I play on to be honest. It's in my favourites so I'll ahve a look and let you know.

Thanks for the time and effort guys, appreciated:notworthy