I got a D-Link wireless adapter and it has a lot of trouble for some reason, and this isn’t the first. I’m being led to believe that either D-Link adapters are terrible, or the default settings are terrible.
I first used this adapter in Windows XP so I know it’s not a Windows 10 problem. At my old place, I was able to switch to Ethernet no problem since I was closer to the router.
But at my new place, I’m not close enough to the router to use Ethernet, so wireless is my only option, and every few seconds, I get a terrible lag spike. How bad is it?
In source engine games (including GMod and GMT), it can teleport me several feet backwards or forwards, depending on what I was doing during the lag spike. Also, anything I try to do during that spike is completely ignored by the server, so I can’t fire guns or press Chimera buttons (and to everyone else, I just continued moving in a straight line).
In Minecraft, it’s so bad that I can’t stay connected to a server for more than 2 minutes. I eventually get a “Timed out” error. It also affects my ability to watch live streams.
How bad are the spikes? Here:
My normal ping hovers around 45ms, which isn’t perfect but it’s not THAT bad. But some of the spikes go above 800ms! Others reach 200-700ms easily.
I’ve seen online that other people with D-Link cards fixed their problem by not using the D-Link wireless manager, but I’m not even using that. Others have said to connect to a network then disable even the Windows ones, as the lag spikes are caused by it scanning for wifi connections. However, on Windows 8 and up, disabling the Windows wifi manager just turns Wifi off completely and disconnects me.
All I want to do is disable whatever is causing the lag spikes as it makes online games completely unplayable. I’d like to be there for a portion of the last day of GMT, at least.
