GameAngel64
Smash Journeyman
Generally speaking I can connect to the Nintendo WFC, I can even find a With Anyone match if I have some patience. Not to say I'm unfamiliar with occasional disconnection. My big problem is horrendous LAG.
The first night I played, I did With Anyone and got into a match with some random Fox, just one on one. I cannot put into words how bad I was lagging, it was more like sporadic freezing. However, I do not think my opponent was lagging, because while on my screen it appeared as though my character was frozen in time, every 15 seconds or so I would see the time in the corner change, and my opponent was moving around, in fact he managed to FULLY ASSEMBLE A DRAGOON and get me with it (all of this I saw in spread apart freeze frames). I would've been fine waiting for the match to finish and just dying, but I just seemed forever frozen, so I had to shut off my Wii.
Later I changed my router's channel, and after that the lag was not quite like that, but there is still like a second delay between button presses and move execution, and this is CONSTANT, not "oops, that momentary lag messed up THAT move," the lag messes up like EVERY move. Not only in With Anyone mode (although it is certainly worse there), but I've also played two friends on two separate occasions, and it was still laggy as hell! These folks couldn't live more than ten miles away from me!
So does anyone have any advice on maybe configuring my router, or being able to check its performance? It's a Linksys router that I just bought a few days ago, because my old router crapped out. Any ideas on how I can optimize my connection (aside from a wired connection, if avoidable)?
EDIT: I'm on a cable modem, by the way, and generally I find my internet connection to be quite speedy.
The first night I played, I did With Anyone and got into a match with some random Fox, just one on one. I cannot put into words how bad I was lagging, it was more like sporadic freezing. However, I do not think my opponent was lagging, because while on my screen it appeared as though my character was frozen in time, every 15 seconds or so I would see the time in the corner change, and my opponent was moving around, in fact he managed to FULLY ASSEMBLE A DRAGOON and get me with it (all of this I saw in spread apart freeze frames). I would've been fine waiting for the match to finish and just dying, but I just seemed forever frozen, so I had to shut off my Wii.
Later I changed my router's channel, and after that the lag was not quite like that, but there is still like a second delay between button presses and move execution, and this is CONSTANT, not "oops, that momentary lag messed up THAT move," the lag messes up like EVERY move. Not only in With Anyone mode (although it is certainly worse there), but I've also played two friends on two separate occasions, and it was still laggy as hell! These folks couldn't live more than ten miles away from me!
So does anyone have any advice on maybe configuring my router, or being able to check its performance? It's a Linksys router that I just bought a few days ago, because my old router crapped out. Any ideas on how I can optimize my connection (aside from a wired connection, if avoidable)?
EDIT: I'm on a cable modem, by the way, and generally I find my internet connection to be quite speedy.