nintendo wii slowing down wifi on pc

[ms5555]

I was trying to play dota2 and getting terrible lag, changed channel on router, got a little better but then terrible again. So I checked to see what devices were connected to my router and go turn them off one by one. I found my nintendo wii and it said it was only connected at 12 mbps in the router menu (I'm using wrt or some firmware that shows that). The wii supposedly has a wireless g adapter but it's all my first floor while router is upstairs and the connection is awful. I can't even get netflix to stream on it. I turned it off from just standby mode (not sure why it's connected in that mode either, whatever) and all my lag went away.

I'm just wondering what is the logic behind this? My wife has a kindle, sometimes I have to disconnect that, I disconnected my wireless printer the other day too. Seems like all these devices slow my network down a ton even if they arent streaming stuff.

 

[bigwoofer]

I have 2 Wii's connected on our wireless network and am not aware of them hogging resources, even when streaming. Your issue may be your total bandwidth to the internet.

Can you please run speedtest.net and let us know the results to start out resolving this? With AT&T POTS DSL if anyone was doing anything on our internet, no one could watch Netflix for instance.

 

[ms5555]

No it's not that it, the devices aren't even active, they aren't using bandwidth. My cable connection is 80 mbps but I can only get my wifi to get up to like 30. It's a crap router I guess though it's a tp-link N 300 mbps one. Idk why but all the slow devices seem to make my connection awful.

 

[bigwoofer]

No it's not that it, the devices aren't even active, they aren't using bandwidth. My cable connection is 80 mbps but I can only get my wifi to get up to like 30. It's a crap router I guess though it's a tp-link N 300 mbps one. Idk why but all the slow devices seem to make my connection awful.

Gotcha, every wireless router has a total throughput that is shared among all your devices connected to it. Is your Wii off when it's consuming the bandwidth, is it on but idle, or is someone streaming on it? Also the Wii may be having an issue.

I highly recommend try upgrading your router from a local store and turn that Wii off. If the upgraded router isn't worth it, you can take it back. Both my wife and I work from home a good bit, and I run webinars all the time with screensharing. When our old apple 500GB timecapsule we were using as our router died, we picked up a Nighthawk which was pretty expensive at $200. However holy cow wireless performance is phenomenal and significantly improved as well as distance.

 

[Haidoken]

Depending on your connection speed, router capabilities, and computer hardware, you're performance is going to be affected by one of several things.

Let's say that you have a 100mbs internet service just to make things simple. Well if your router can only broadcast a 50mbs signal, then that means that everything on the wifi has to share that 50mbs connection even though your true internet service is faster.

Your wireless card in your computer - if you're using the wifi on your desktop - also has a limit. So if your wireless card inside your computer only can receive, let's say, a 20mbs signal then you're never going to have a faster connection speed on your computer regardless of your internet speed.

Ideally you would wire your computer in with an ethernet cable so that you can use the full extent of your internet service. Another option would be to upgrade your router if it's outdated. You can buy a router that will broadcast up to 300mbs for around $25.

So if you want to find the source of your issue, check the following:
1. How fast is your internet?
2. What can your router broadcast?
3. What is your wireless card capable of?

Depending on where the issue is, here's what you can do:
1. Subscribe to faster internet (should be about $50/mo for 100mbs)
2. Upgrade your router
3. Upgrade your wireless card or connect directly to your router

 

[Joseph_74]

I was trying to play dota2 and getting terrible lag, changed channel on router, got a little better but then terrible again. So I checked to see what devices were connected to my router and go turn them off one by one. I found my nintendo wii and it said it was only connected at 12 mbps in the router menu (I'm using wrt or some firmware that shows that). The wii supposedly has a wireless g adapter but it's all my first floor while router is upstairs and the connection is awful. I can't even get netflix to stream on it. I turned it off from just standby mode (not sure why it's connected in that mode either, whatever) and all my lag went away.

I'm just wondering what is the logic behind this? My wife has a kindle, sometimes I have to disconnect that, I disconnected my wireless printer the other day too. Seems like all these devices slow my network down a ton even if they arent streaming stuff.

Well the type of the device doesn't matter but to most likely fix your internet I would suggest fully resetting your internet router (if you use a Linksys here- http://www.linksys.com/hk/support-article?articleNum=139791) then afterwards I would suggest using this website to check your network speed (just because the company tells you one thing doesn't mean they aren't screwing you over trust me I know) and you can do that here on your pc-http://www.speedtest.net/ or you can get the app for your phone here http://www.speedtest.net/mobile/ then after I would slowly add devices and redo tests then you can see what causes the most trouble!

hope this helps!