Saturday, February 21, 2009

How to reduce lag spike on Vista Wireless

This is a common problem for gamers who wants to play online games but because of frequent lag spikes you cant get your headshots/kills etc. The tip i am about to tell you is particularly useful especially on the call of duty series however it will impact every online game/experience on vista.

Vista have a new wireless interface. YAY! However bad news it is will keep on checking on new wireless points consitantly. Thus causing lag spikes like every 2 min in a game =.= (You try so hard to climb up a half-life 2 custom puzzle map and because of a lag spike u drop to your death) Bad experience :(.

Ok onto how to solve it.

Firstly know your interface name, if you do not know go to ur Network and Sharing Center. There you see your connection. By default it should be Wireless network connection(your name for your wireless) The italic part is your interface name.

Secondly create two shortcut on your desktop

1) For the first shortcut, it is to disable the function of searching for a better wireless signal

Name it as disable wireless interface and change the target to C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe /k netsh wlan set autoconfig enabled=no interface="Wireless Network Connection"

2)For the second shortcut, it is to enable it again so that after you restart/power on again you will still be able to search for your internet connection.

Name it as enable........ and change the target to C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe /k netsh wlan set autoconfig enabled=yes interface="Wireless Network Connection"

Again the italic part varies for your interface name.

You will now have two CMD shortcuts on your desktop. If you want to play any online games click on the shortcut to disable your wireless interface after you have connected to your home wireless.

And if you want to re-enable back your wireless interface just click on the enable wireless(or whatever you name it)

Thats it you will now have connectivity as lag free as in a wired condition. And you cannot blame your internet for being a noob anymore :D.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for giving information.It's very useful tips for me.When i had a lag problem ,i followed your tips.After that i checked my ping rate whether it's low or high using Whoisxy.com I was really amazed about my results.

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