Steady steam and origin speeds?

[Champ]

So I have a 15 mbps Suddenlink line and I using wireless in my apartment. Its usually 1.8 MB/s when using cat, but I've moved my gaming rig into my bedroom and can't do that now. That speed when DLing games fluctuates horribly. I'm using a Netgear N300 wireless usb adapter and I have a Zoom 5352 Cable Modem/Router with Wireless-N. Am I stuck with the up and downs?

 

[erocker]

Go wired or at least get rid of the USB adapter.

 

[de.das.dude]

get rid of the usb adapter and make sure no one is using the wireless to download anything. since its a router, it will give max bandwith to anyone using it in most cases.

 

[Champ]

what would be a better option?

 

[de.das.dude]

run cat6 cable to your pc. when i play from my laptop(like now since motherboard for desktop is away) i plug in the ethernet.

 

[RCoon]

I use TPLink 200Mbps Powerline Adapters. Gets me 84Mbps actual speeds, which is about 10.5MBps transfer speed. Wired cable without having to lay wires.

As long as your house is on a single power loop, and isn't old as balls, should work a charm.

 

[Kursah]

Go wired or get a better USB adapter. I have one of those Netgears and it's rubbish compared to the Rosewill unit I replaced it with for the old lady's PC. Now she's constantly experiencing peak downloads from the Internet, the same speeds I reach via CAT5e a few feet from my router. Her internal network speeds are about 1/5 or less that of my 1Gbps Ethernet connection (peak transfers I've seen around 115MBs or so), but a big part of that is the USB 2.0 limitiations (480Mbps or about 20MB/s) and having a USB adapter...it's still the fastest USB adapter I've ever used. I've owned several, a couple costing way more than I'd care to admit. The cheap Rosewill smoked them all and has impressed me greatly with USB wifi adapters from this company. The antenna helps keep a solid connection, and the drivers it uses are pretty damn good. Wiring is the best route if you want it all though, but there are affordable and decent USB wifi adapters out there should you want to continue down that road. Sell the Netgear one though!

I don't know about needing to go with CAT6 really...you could and it would be great for the future, but you don't need to by any means. Especially if you don't plan to upgrade to anything that can take advantage of that cable's bandwidth ratings in the future on both the NIC and switching/routing side.

CAT5e will do just fine and is still a good margin cheaper at least in my area. Especially if you aren't terminating your own or buying bulk. CAT5e does gigabit speeds just fine, CAT6 is a better cable for sure, and is 10Gbps ready...but really when CAT5e can be had so cheap and 99% of folks' home routers only support 100Mbps connections, it's tough to recommend imho.

Good luck and keep us posted with what you decide to do!

 

[FireFox]

run cat6 cable to your pc. when i play from my laptop(like now since motherboard for desktop is away) i plug in the ethernet.

The same here.

 

[suddenlinkhelp]

So I have a 15 mbps Suddenlink line and I using wireless in my apartment. Its usually 1.8 MB/s when using cat, but I've moved my gaming rig into my bedroom and can't do that now. That speed when DLing games fluctuates horribly. I'm using a Netgear N300 wireless usb adapter and I have a Zoom 5352 Cable Modem/Router with Wireless-N. Am I stuck with the up and downs?

Hi – My name is Kacie, and I’m with Suddenlink. I’d be happy to help you with this. Please feel free to email me directly at socialsupport-AT-suddenlink-DOT-com. Thank you, -Kacie

 

[Champ]

Hi – My name is Kacie, and I’m with Suddenlink. I’d be happy to help you with this. Please feel free to email me directly at socialsupport-AT-suddenlink-DOT-com. Thank you, -Kacie

Thank you. My service is great. It's just getting my wireless download speeds to stabilize. I just gotta decide what I'm gonna do.

 

[de.das.dude]

Hi – My name is Kacie, and I’m with Suddenlink. I’d be happy to help you with this. Please feel free to email me directly at socialsupport-AT-suddenlink-DOT-com. Thank you, -Kacie

bye bye

 

[Mindweaver]

bye bye

suddenlinkhelp's ISP shows, "Suddenlink Communications". Now that doesn't 100% confirm that they work for suddenlink, but it's something. I would contact suddenlink directly via phone to confirm that that's the correct address to report issues. Maybe it's on their website? Of course that address has the suddenlink.com domain... It would be more fishy if it was something like suddenlink.tv

 

[de.das.dude]

suddenlinkhelp's ISP shows, "Suddenlink Communications". Now that doesn't 100% confirm that they work for suddenlink, but it's something. I would contact suddenlink directly via phone to confirm that that's the correct address to report issues. Maybe it's on their website? Of course that address has the suddenlink.com domain... It would be more fishy if it was something like suddenlink.tv

yes i too checked the domain and it seems to be the legit one.

 

[Toothless]

Go wired or get a better USB adapter. I have one of those Netgears and it's rubbish compared to the Rosewill unit I replaced it with for the old lady's PC. Now she's constantly experiencing peak downloads from the Internet, the same speeds I reach via CAT5e a few feet from my router. Her internal network speeds are about 1/5 or less that of my 1Gbps Ethernet connection (peak transfers I've seen around 115MBs or so), but a big part of that is the USB 2.0 limitiations (480Mbps or about 20MB/s) and having a USB adapter...it's still the fastest USB adapter I've ever used. I've owned several, a couple costing way more than I'd care to admit. The cheap Rosewill smoked them all and has impressed me greatly with USB wifi adapters from this company. The antenna helps keep a solid connection, and the drivers it uses are pretty damn good. Wiring is the best route if you want it all though, but there are affordable and decent USB wifi adapters out there should you want to continue down that road. Sell the Netgear one though!

I don't know about needing to go with CAT6 really...you could and it would be great for the future, but you don't need to by any means. Especially if you don't plan to upgrade to anything that can take advantage of that cable's bandwidth ratings in the future on both the NIC and switching/routing side.

CAT5e will do just fine and is still a good margin cheaper at least in my area. Especially if you aren't terminating your own or buying bulk. CAT5e does gigabit speeds just fine, CAT6 is a better cable for sure, and is 10Gbps ready...but really when CAT5e can be had so cheap and 99% of folks' home routers only support 100Mbps connections, it's tough to recommend imho.

Good luck and keep us posted with what you decide to do!

That's the same Rosewill a buddy ordered for him and I to use since he busted my old one. I hope to have the same luck.

 

[remixedcat]

suddenlinkhelp's ISP shows, "Suddenlink Communications". Now that doesn't 100% confirm that they work for suddenlink, but it's something. I would contact suddenlink directly via phone to confirm that that's the correct address to report issues. Maybe it's on their website? Of course that address has the suddenlink.com domain... It would be more fishy if it was something like suddenlink.tv

Did you do a WHOIS on their IP address?

Actually the most stable WLAN adapter I have is the Amped ACA1 it's been pretty good. My edimax ac600 has been good but I've only owned it 2 months so it's harder to tell when I've had the ACA1 since Jul 2013. It's USB 3.0
http://remixedcat.blogspot.com/search/label/amped wireless <<test results on various access points Read the parts where I mention the ACA1.

 

[Mindweaver]

Did you do a WHOIS on their IP address?

Yea

 

[remixedcat]

I know suddenlink's HQ is in texas somewhere is that the state that came up?

 

[OneMoar]

try changing the steam download region