Ping Issues with Halo

[Jä×]

Alright here's the rundown... recently got moved into our new place and got a 50mbps/4.5meg/s connection hooked up and it seems on every other game we play the ping is fine... but halo the ping is spiking constantly between 60-1000ms... which it's far enough apart I can play, but it's making me miss shots.

Connection speed tests between 40-50ms and 51-62mbps. Ping and latency are fine according to pingtest and no abnormalities with any other game... just Halo...

Already killed most of the W7 background tasks and misc programs I don't need going... literally had Xfire, AIDA64(temp monitoring), Afterburner(GPU Fan control), and nothing else going...

PC Specs
AMD FX4100
Gigabyte 990FX UD3
G.Skill Sniper 1600 2x4gb
Saphire ATI Radeon 3870 x2 512 256bit Crossfire
WD 250gb 7200rpm 6gb/s
Windows 7 Ultimate 64

It was working fine at my house 60 miles away on a 10mbps connection... so I am puzzled... the only difference is a new connection, new modem, and new software installed that doesn't interfere....

I DID have Folding@Home going but it was paused and has never caused latency issues in other games.

[Jä×]

Well apparently it's our router... as we discovered today it can't handle the net connection, keeps bottlenecking and crashing.

So time for a new router that can handle the speeds :l

[MrMxyzptlk]

I'll assume that you've done this, and that you're NOT using wireless and have done a "fresh" "cold start" of all your network components....

Else-wise, yes, should should make sure that you get/have all Gigabit-level networking devices throughout your network.  (Watch out for what your Internet provider gives you!  Not all provide G-level equipment!  )

P.S. You probably have a fairly "modern" router since it's new, but be sure to DISable 802.1a/b (and g if you're using exclusively n everywhere on your wireless LAN...) too....

[Jä×]

Problem is our router keeps dropping the N band entirely, and then while devices can connect to the G band it isn't getting any net... despite the net light on the router being on the router admin panel shows disconnected. Power cycling either from ACP or power cable gets it working for a few minutes.. but the moment we start downloading or streaming a movie on netflix is stumbles and dies.

Already tried fiddling with wireless settings, bandwidth settings, ect... no go.... net usage for browsing it's fine but the moment we do anything big the N band dies and the G band quits responding. Also while connected directly to the router itself the net dies.

For the time being I'm going to get a 50f Cat5 and Linksys switch out of storage and use them until we can replace our router.
This is the router in question http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-F7D8302-Wireless-Dual-Band-300Mbps/dp/B0045HJME4/ref=sr_1_8?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1364941711&sr=1-8&keywords=belkin+n+router

[MrMxyzptlk]

Wow.  I just went and read a few reviews of that device from professional network-device reviewers.

Most of them recommend "pass" on it, a few even called it "a giant step backward for Belkin" for a variety of failings, the least of which was speed/reliability degradation at "more than very short distances."   

 

[Jä×]

Yup... oh well looking into a Failsys/Cisco router I guess now.

Got suggested a 3500 N750 by a network manager.

[Jä×]

Ya.....