jon_hill987 Posted July 20, 2006 Posted July 20, 2006 I really couldn't be bothered to find a HL forum to post this on since I assume most of you use Steam. Anyway it seems steam is killing my wifi conection. While steam is running (and even more so if I try to conect to a game with it) my WiFi conection will be turning on and off like mad. it isn't a range thing because i tryed with it about 3 meters from the router, my internet conection stops working properly even after i have given up and closed steam (restarting my computer seems to get it back). Anyone have any ideas what is causing this? I have a NetVision 802.11b laptop card and use XP SvP2.
toms Posted July 20, 2006 Posted July 20, 2006 My wifi connection dies whenever i have high cpu load.. which makes it useless for online gaming. Don't know if steam would contribute to such an effect, or if its just my stupid wifi dongle....
jon_hill987 Posted July 21, 2006 Author Posted July 21, 2006 You were right about the CPU load. I noticed that the GIMP caused the same thing to happen when I was doing a CPU heavy operation. I borrowed my brothers card and that seems to be unefected. I even managed to play DMC with almost no Lag! I think I am going to be getind myself a new card.
Crow_Nest Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 Steam has an issue which causes "100% CPU usage" for some people. I also got it for a few seconds recently, but it was supposed to be fixed in the latest Steam client update. Try and see if its ok now.
Mike Windu Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 It would seem your wifi connection is running out of Steam. *runs* (I don't know much about Steam, I don't play CS or HL 56k for the lose)
toms Posted July 28, 2006 Posted July 28, 2006 In a completely unrelated note: i think i've fixed my wifi problem. Did you ever have one of those things where after a year or so you accidentally fixed a problem you'd given up on long before? About 3 years ago i bought a USB2 PCI card.. and i thought it was working fine. I'd noticed my usb wifi dongle kept dropping connections on high CPU load, and that syncing up my 20gb mp3 player was slower than expected, but never really found a solution to the first, or worried about the second. Recently I got an external USB2 hard drive for backups and storing mp3s etc.. but i only used it rarely. Then when i tried to copy a big video file ono it i realised it was actually working at less then USB1 speeds. Anyway, to cut a long story short I kind of accidentally discovered that my USB2 pci card was sharing the same IRQ as my graphics card... so it was constantly getting interrupted, and was horrendously slow!! Now my mp3 player takes 5 minutes to sync instead of an hour or two. My wifi connection seems to stay up for 4-6 hours instead of the 40-50 minutes i used to get. And it no longer seems to drop when i'm using processor/graphics intensive software. Its also fixed 4 or 5 other minor issues that i always wondered about but was never interested enough to look into. Anyway, don't think it will help jon as i doubt a laptop would have the same issue.. its just weird to almost accidentally fix a problem you didn't really know you had, and then fix about 10 other minor problems you always had in the process. yay.
jon_hill987 Posted July 28, 2006 Author Posted July 28, 2006 Well I got myself a new card, a belkin high speed wifi g card, same as our router and it all works fine. been spending a lot of my time on Death Match Classic and this little gem: http://www.zombipanic.org. Sadly there is hardly ever anyone on Zombie Panic
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