Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for
Problems with Thomson router - is it worth buying a gaming router?
Topic Options
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Mark Topic as New
- Mark Topic as Read
- Float this Topic for Current User
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Printer Friendly Page
- Plusnet Community
- :
- Forum
- :
- Other forums
- :
- Gaming
- :
- Re: Problems with Thomson router - is it worth buy...
Problems with Thomson router - is it worth buying a gaming router?
24-03-2011 11:07 AM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
Hi,
Last night I was having severe problems playing the game Rift. Latency was huge, averaging around 2 seconds, and sometimes going up as high as 5, making the game unplayable. After some investigation, I found out that the problem seems to have been my router - when I power cycled it, my latency was back to very low levels.
I'm still using the Thomson router that came with my Plusnet account. However if it's going to perform like this, then I'm open to alternatives. Are better routers available? I've seen that some companies make specialist routers for gaming - are these worthwhile? Any recommendations?
Last night I was having severe problems playing the game Rift. Latency was huge, averaging around 2 seconds, and sometimes going up as high as 5, making the game unplayable. After some investigation, I found out that the problem seems to have been my router - when I power cycled it, my latency was back to very low levels.
I'm still using the Thomson router that came with my Plusnet account. However if it's going to perform like this, then I'm open to alternatives. Are better routers available? I've seen that some companies make specialist routers for gaming - are these worthwhile? Any recommendations?
1 REPLY 1
Re: Problems with Thomson router - is it worth buying a gaming router?
24-03-2011 3:01 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
Hi there,
This is down to a known issue with our traffic management platform that's currently being investigated, so please don't blame the router - it'll have worked following the reboot because you connected to a different switch. In addition the signature for RIFT packets hasn't been added yet so it's not being picked up as gaming. This is due to happen next week, I believe early on Wednesday morning.
Might be worth having a look at the RIFT thread: http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,94022.0.html
This is down to a known issue with our traffic management platform that's currently being investigated, so please don't blame the router - it'll have worked following the reboot because you connected to a different switch. In addition the signature for RIFT packets hasn't been added yet so it's not being picked up as gaming. This is due to happen next week, I believe early on Wednesday morning.
Might be worth having a look at the RIFT thread: http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,94022.0.html
Topic Options
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Mark Topic as New
- Mark Topic as Read
- Float this Topic for Current User
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Printer Friendly Page
- Plusnet Community
- :
- Forum
- :
- Other forums
- :
- Gaming
- :
- Re: Problems with Thomson router - is it worth buy...