oukourj
Technical User
- Oct 13, 2014
- 4
Hi @ all,
I'm new here and I'm excited to see such a specialized forum. I am primarily here because I want to understand a situation I'm having with my private network.
I use a WNA1100 USB Wi-Fi receiver to connect my desktop to my Cable modem.
As I play some online videogames sometimes, I realized I had regular drops of ping.
The modem is not very close to the receiver and reception quality is about 40%.
But still, I wondered why the drops were so regular.
I actually analyzed the packet flow with Wireshark, and the the raw USB packet flow with usbmon (on linux), and both show a critical drop in packets transmitted every 2 minutes. The graphics I made don't lie. It's on a regular basis, not only dependent of network usage (I share this wi-fi modem with a few people).
This made me think that there could actually be a solution (maybe configuring the modem or the driver a way or another).
Anyway, my question here is mostly: what other analyses would you run to understand this situation ?
Or, would you simply say that the weak signal is a sufficient explanation ?
If so, why ? Why the regular drops ?
Thanks a lot for sharing the knowledge !
Alex
I'm new here and I'm excited to see such a specialized forum. I am primarily here because I want to understand a situation I'm having with my private network.
I use a WNA1100 USB Wi-Fi receiver to connect my desktop to my Cable modem.
As I play some online videogames sometimes, I realized I had regular drops of ping.
The modem is not very close to the receiver and reception quality is about 40%.
But still, I wondered why the drops were so regular.
I actually analyzed the packet flow with Wireshark, and the the raw USB packet flow with usbmon (on linux), and both show a critical drop in packets transmitted every 2 minutes. The graphics I made don't lie. It's on a regular basis, not only dependent of network usage (I share this wi-fi modem with a few people).
This made me think that there could actually be a solution (maybe configuring the modem or the driver a way or another).
Anyway, my question here is mostly: what other analyses would you run to understand this situation ?
Or, would you simply say that the weak signal is a sufficient explanation ?
If so, why ? Why the regular drops ?
Thanks a lot for sharing the knowledge !
Alex