wavebird causes online lag

[juddapudda]

yesterday, i was doing an online match with my cousin. he only lives about an hour away, but the lag was horrible and made the matches unplayable. i tried opening up ports on my router and all that stuff, but it still didn't seem to fix it. i don't know what possessed me, but we were in the middle of a terribly laggy match, when i thought that maybe the wavebird i was using might have something to do with it. i tried just a regular gamecube controller, and the lag immediately stopped. there is still a bit of a delay in our matches now, but nothing nearly as bad as it was before.
just though i'd share and see if it works for anyone else.

 

[Teef And Claws]

Hmmm... So maybee the wireless interferes with the routers signal, I wonder if the nunchuck can have this effect aswell? One thing I suppose you could try is changing the channel of your router if you wanna stick with the wavebird, it might help.

 

[aeota]

wow, i need to try this.. Im getting ridiculous lag online, and we use a wavebird. I havent been able to figure out the problem.. hmm.

 

[juddapudda]

wow, i need to try this.. Im getting ridiculous lag online, and we use a wavebird. I havent been able to figure out the problem.. hmm.

let me know if it works for you too.

 

[aeota]

I just used a wired turbo controller and still got immense (unplayable) lag, including button delay and frame lag. I'm somewhat pissed that I cant get play..

 

[CitizenSweeps]

WaveBirds work on an RF frequency which shouldn't interfere with your router. Any lag a Wavebird would cause would probably be button delay, and even then it would be something like a millionth of a second; if you don't notice the delay in regular play, it's not the fault of the controller if there's a delay in online play.

Wiimotes and nunchucks operate on a Bluetooth signal, which won't interfere with your Wavebird or router signals.

 

[mrwynd]

it's not the controllers, your Wii, etc, it's nintendo's server(s)!!!!

 

[ropep0202]

I hope it's not my little Wavebird.
I want to but more of them but Nintendo stopped production for some ridiculous reason.
Did they expect for us to play with the 'mote?

 

[Chaosblade77]

I don't think it's the wavebird. I get ridiculous lag sometimes and I am using a wired controller. As in, there have been times the game has frozen for a couple of minutes before resuming play, and other times where the game was moving at a consistent 1 frame per second or so. I think it's just people's connections (if one of your opponents has a slow or bogged down connection, everyone feels it) and Nintendo's overloaded servers, regardless of whether they have matches sent through them.

 

[worm]

This is sheer ignorance. Sorry, but switching to a wired controller doesn't solve the problems.

 

[juddapudda]

This is sheer ignorance. Sorry, but switching to a wired controller doesn't solve the problems.

i'm sorry, but as soon as i switched from the wavebird to the wired controller the lag stopped. please do not call me ignorant, i was just trying to share with others what solved my problem.

 

[Nao Hikari]

well, even if it wasn't the cause of the lag it's still an option to try. I myself have been using a wavebird this entire time and will be giving this a try reguardless of whether it works or not. Thanks for the post :D