hello

i have searched for similar problems using the search system but have been unlucky so i decided to post a thread.

Recently i have been having a problem with lagging in the majority of servers i have played on. what usually happens is the racer name doesn't change into a lag time but the player will seem to drive in a direction then the car will be somewhere else (the best way i can describe this it it teleports to a different location) sometimes the car will seem to crash into barriers fly up into the air and then in a split second it will be back where it was before the accident. This typically happens when a car is near me.
i do get the lag message above cars at times but the two don't happen at the same time.
i checked the ping of a server which i was getting the problem on and it is 40ms which seems normal.
i am on a wireless network so this might be the cause but the signal strength is "excellent". the connection speed is 54mbps.
i usually get good fps in servers so i don't think this is the problem

im not the best with computers so any help will be greatly appreciated.

It's the wireless. Well, at least I think so

Is it your own secured wireless network or unsecured city network? If its for anyone to use then there is issue about the bandwidth, everyone downloading god knows what and using all the bandwidth

If its your own secured wireless that isn't used by any other, then don't keep any p2p, downloads, messenger etc open and running.

But if everything is okay then switching to wire might solve the problem. At least one I know had the same problems and got the problem fixed by using wire instead of wireless.

Today I was racing CD1 and got "connection lost" several times. Also some other ppl were getting disconnected several times and there were only 8 online! Might be server related also

thanks for the reply.
its a home network so theres 3 computers on the network, mine is the only one that is used a lot. i thought i might need a wire but just wanted to see what people thought. thank you for your help
ste

Just a note, I use wireless with no problems at all.

The only problem I had was when I first used it and I let XP manage the wireless connection, I got this regular sutter every minute or so, changing to the software that came with the wireless network card fixed the problem.

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The only problem I had was when I first used it and I let XP manage the wireless connection, I got this regular sutter every minute or so, changing to the software that came with the wireless network card fixed the problem.

Great tip!

Maybe it is the XP's software which causes lots of these problems Only problem left is that I'm connected through another pc which has XP in it. So, I have only the wireless software for this pc. Well, 1 bad XP software is better than 2 bad XP softwares, right?

Nevertheless, I'll give it a try someday when I have more time. I'll report back my findings (if I remember to do so ).

E:Tried to config RaWireless Utility-software and I managed to get a connection working between the two pc's. Only thing was that I couldn't get the internet connection to work. I looked the setting from XP's own connection: ip,default gateway,dns and all, but if I but these manually on my wireless network-settings, on Control Panel/Network settings, it won't work.

I suck a lot Tips?