mpelley92 wrote:
theveterans, have you tried checking the consistency of your connection? For example, open two command prompt windows. One to ping Google's server, 8.8.8.8 and the other to ping your gateway (for me, 192.168.0.1). Make sure to set the number of times to ping to a high number and the timeout to something like 60 seconds. For example, 'ping 8.8.8.8 -n 99999 -w 60000'.
Do this and try streaming Youtube, watching netflix, playing an online game or something else that requires 100% connectivity.
As an added stress test, try streaming music from a bluetooth device at the same time. When I do all these things, I get ping times of 50-50000ms from my notebook to the gateway, which should always be either 1ms or <1ms.
Of course it would increase latency no matter how good the adapter. It's the nature of WiFi and QoS. I believe that the more consistent packets you send over the air, the higher the jitters will be. Also, WMM QoS would be a huge factor here as it will prioritize streaming packets and put the round-trip packet pinging test to a low priority. However, even with increased latency of least prioritized command prompt ping from 1 ms to 20ms with spikes to 100 to 150ms, there should be minimal network lag experience on the high priority packets like YouTube, DLNA video/music streaming, gaming and VoIP. Yes I get the cmd ping spikes to 100 ms on pinging gateway test when doing multiple activities such as multiple streaming while downloading but I never buffered nor have interruptions with my local NAS streaming, YouTube/Netflix/Silverlight streaming when doing multiple things at once. Spikes of 50000/ping timeouts are not normal at all, I think the router might also cause this interruption. Try performing the same stress test on another device with Atheros or Broadcom wifi and see if you get ping timeouts. If both get the same results, it's the router.
